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Mechatronic Design Devices and Systems

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Mechatronic Design, Devices, and Systems
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Preface

Mechatronics concerns synergistic and concurrent use of mechanics, electronics, computer engineering, and intelligent control systems in modeling, analyzing, designing, developing, and implementing smart electromechanical products. As the modern machinery and electromechanical devices are typically being controlled using analog and digital electronics and computers, the technologies of mechanical engineering in such a system can no longer be isolated from those of electronic and computer engineering. For example, in a robot systems or a micro-machine, mechanical components are integrated with analog and digital electronic components to provide single functional units or products. Similarly, devices with embedded and integrated sensing, actuation, signal processing, and control have many practical advantages. In the framework of mechatronics, a unified approach is taken to integrate different types of components and functions, both mechanical and electrical, in modeling, analysis, design, and implementation, with the objective of harmonious operation that meets a desired set of performance specifications.

In the mechatronic approach, a multidomain (mixed) system consisting of subsystems that have primarily mechanical (including fluid and thermal) or primarily electrical (including electronic) character is treated using integrated engineering concepts. In particular, electromechanical analogies, consistent energy transfer (e.g., kinetic, potential, thermal, fluid, electrostatic, and electromagnetic energies) through energy ports and integrated design methodologies may be incorporated, resulting in benefits with regard to performance, efficiency, reliability, and cost.

Mechatronics has emerged as a bona fide field of practice, research, and development, and simultaneously as an academic discipline in engineering. The present book is geared toward the focus on integrated education and practice as related to electromechanical and multidomain systems. In view of the analytical methods, practical considerations, design issues, and experimental techniques that are presented throughout the book, it serves as a useful reference tool and an extensive information source for engineers in industry and laboratories, researchers, and students in the field of mechatronics.

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Technology Needs for Mechatronic Systems

Section I Mechatronic Devices
Robotic Application of Mechatronics
H. Li and S.X. Yang
Swiss Lever Escapement Mechanism
Y. Fu and R. Du
Instrumented Wheel for Wheelchair Propulsion Analysis
M. Mallakzadeh and F. Sassani
MEMS-Based Ultrasonic Devices
T. Siu and M. Chiao
Polyaniline Nanostructures
H. Xia and H.S.O. Chan

Section II Communication Technologies
TCP Connectivity Analysis in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
S. Adibi
LIGHT: Communication Using Visible Light
G.K.H. Pang
Bluetooth Networking
V.C.M. Leung and V.W.S. Wong
Brain–Machine Interfacing and Motor Prosthetics
A.E. Brockwell and M. Velliste

Section III Control Technologies
Adaptive Control of a Gantry System
C.S. Teo, K.K. Tan, S. Huang and S.Y. Lim
Virtual Computer Numerical Control System
K. Erkorkmaz, Y. Altintas and C.-H. Yeung
Model Predictive Control of a Flexible Robot
T. Fan and C.W. de Silva
Computer Vision in Multi-Robot Cooperative Control
Y. Wang and C.W. de Silva
Robotic Tasks Using Discrete Event Controller
N.W. Koh, M.H. Ang Jr. and S.Y. Lim
Fuzzy Modeling and Control
Z. Guo, J. Mao, Y. Yue and Y. Li

Section IV Mechatronic Design and Optimization
Mechatronic Modeling and Design
S. Behbahani and C.W. de Silva
Evolutionary Mechatronic Tool
S. Behbahani and C.W. de Silva
Mechatronic Design Quotient (MDQ)
S. Behbahani and C.W. de Silva
Kinematic Design Optimization of Acrobot
L. Yang, C.M. Chew, A.N. Poo and C.W. de Silva
Evolutionary Optimization in the Design of a Heat Sink
M.R. Alrasheed, C.W. de Silva and M.S. Gadala
Actuator Optimization and Fuzzy Control in Mechatronics
H. Marzi

Section V Monitoring and Diagnosis

Health Monitoring of a Mechatronic System
F. Pirmoradi, F. Sassani and C.W. de Silva
Defect Detection of Patterned Objects
H.Y.T. Ngan and G.K.H. Pang
Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Mechatronic Systems
K.K. Tan, S. Huang, T.H. Lee, A.S. Putra, C.S. Teo and C.W. de Silva
Sensor Fusion for Online Tool Condition Monitoring
W.H. Wang, Y.S. Wong and G.S. Hong
Modeling of Cutting Forces During Machining
Z.G. Wang, M. Rahman, Y.S. Wong, K.S Neo, J. Sun and H. Onozuka
Mechatronics in Landmine Detection and Removal
T. Nanayakkara
L. Piyathilaka and A. Subasinghe
Online Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Ship Propulsion Systems
Z. Feng, Z. Chen and Y. Wang