Mechatronics: Principles, Technologies and Applications

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This book describes some practical examples that demonstrate how different competences, disciplines, and technologies meet in an innovative mechatronic system.


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Supplier: Nova Science Publishers SKU: 978-1-63482-801-7 Category: Tags: , , ,

Mechatronics: Principles, Technologies, and Applications

Mastering the art of ‘mechatronics’ currently looks like one of the most attractive tasks of modern engineering, technology, and science. Many applications resort to the interdisciplinary approach of mechatronics to enhance the performance, quality, and safety of either product or process. Some are traditional (like hard disk drives, biomedical, automotive, and aerospace systems). In contrast, others are relatively new (like micro and nanoelectromechanical systems, unmanned air vehicles, intelligent machining, manufacturing systems, or bioinspired devices). This book describes some practical examples demonstrating how different competencies, disciplines, and technologies meet in an innovative mechatronic system.

They deal with several domains, such as hard disk drive technology, biomedical prostheses, fluidic automation, UAV Vision Systems, vibration monitoring and suppression in steelmaking plants, materials machining, and smart composites. These examples will show the reader, who is still looking for the real meaning of mechatronics, how some innovative technologies allow the implementation of artificial intelligence in several systems currently produced. Examples describe neural network positioning control, chaos prevention, myoelectric stimulation of prosthesis, human detection by the vision system, multi-physics modeling, and dynamics control.

Some topics are related to small scale, as in the case of a finger of a biotronic hand. Nevertheless, the same approach is applied even to huge machines, like the electric arc furnace. It is worth noting that the authors resorted even to additive manufacturing, such as prototyping bio-prostheses or fiber optics embedded into composite structures. Those technologies allow for reducing the cost, weight, or volume of products. In some cases, the mechatronic approach improves the quality and the accuracy of some material processing, like rolling or turning against the risk of self–excited chatter vibration. The examples described in this book cover a wide range of mechatronic applications.
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