Mechatronic Systems: Fundamentals

Description

Many processes and systems manifest an increasing integration of mechanical and electronic components with information processing capacity. The development of such mechatronic systems opens the way to many innovative solutions not possible with mechanics or electronics alone.

Mechatronic Systems introduces these developments by considering the dynamic modelling of components together with their interactions. The whole range of elements is presented from actuators, through different kinds of processes, to sensors.

Structured tutorial style takes learning from the basics of unified theoretical modelling, through information processing to examples of system development.

End-of-chapter exercises provide ready-made homework or self-tests.

Offers practical advice for engineering derived from experience with real systems and application-oriented research.

Written by one of the World's leading experts in this progressive field, Mechatronic Systems will be of great value to advanced students working in control, electrical and mechanical engineering and in areas where such definitions are being superseded. It will also prove useful to practising engineers wanting an in-depth understanding of how these disciplines and that of information processing are becoming interlinked.

Written for:

Graduate students in automatic control, mechatronics, electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics; academics researching and teaching in automatic control, mechatronics, electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics; practitioners in areas using or making products for such areas as: automotion, automated assembly and flexible automation, materials handling, cell-level control and supervision, machine vision and robotics

Keywords:

Automatic control

Electrical drives

Mechanics

Mechatronics

Modelling

 

Table of Contents

Integrated Mechanical Electronic Systems

Fundamentals of Theoretical Modeling of Technical Processes

Fundamental Equations of the Dynamics of Mechanical Systems with Mobile Masses

Mechanical Elements

Electrical Drives

Machines and Drivetrains

Identification of Dynamic Systems

Models of Oscillations and their Identification

Sensors

Actuators

Microcomputers

Examples for the Design of Mechatronic Systems: Modelling, Control and Diagnosis.