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Mechatronics: Slovak University of Technology
Mechatronics: Slovak University of Technology
MECHATRONICS
Lecture 02
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Mechatronics is the integrated design, analysis, optimization,
and virtual prototyping of intelligent and high-performance
electromechanical systems, system intelligence, learning,
adaptation, decision making, and control through the use of
advanced hardware (actuators, sensors, microprocessors,
DSPs, power electronics, and ICs) and leading-edge software.
Integrated multidisciplinary features approach quickly, as
documented in Fig.
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DESIGN FLOW IN SYNTHESIS OF
MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS
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DESIGN FLOW IN SYNTHESIS OF
MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS
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The design process is evolutionary in nature. It starts with a given set of
requirements and specifications.
For example, different criteria are used to design actuators and ICs
due to different behavior, physical properties, operational principles,
and performancecriteria imposed for these components.
(ICs are assumed to be optimized, and these ICs are used as ready-
to-use compon)
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Automated synthesis can be attained to implement this design flow.
The design of mechatronic systems is a process that starts from the
specification of requirements and progressively proceeds to perform a
functional design and optimization that is gradually refined through a
sequence of envelope, affordability, and other requirements.
Both top-down an bottomup approaches should steps.
Specifications typically include the perform equirements derived from
systems functionality, operating be combined to design high-
performance mechatronic systems augmenting hierarchy, integrity,
regularity, modularity, compliance, and completeness in the synthesis
process.
Even though the basic foundations have been developed, some urgent
areas have been downgraded, less emphasized, and researched.
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To acquire and expand the engineering core, there is the need to augment
interdisciplinary areas aswell as to link and place the multidisciplinary
perspectives integrating actuators–sensors–power electronics–ICs–DSPs
to attain actuation, sensing, control, decision making, intelligence, signal
processing,and data acquisition.
New developments are needed. The theory and engineering practice of
high performance electromechanical systems should be considered as the
unified cornerstone of the engineering curriculum through mechatronics.
The unified analysis of actuators and sensors (e.g., electromechanical
motion devices), power electronics and ICs, microprocessors and DSPs,
and advanced hardware and software, have barely been introduced into the
engineering curriculum.
Mechatronics, as the breakthrough concept in the design and analysis of
conventional-, mini-, micro- and nano-scale electromechanical systems,
was introduced to attack, integrate, and solve a great variety of emerging
problems.
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The present goal is a spatial integration with other functional elements in
the area of sensors as well as in the area of actuators.
It would create an “intelligent” unit, i.e. an intelligent sensor (integration
of a measured values sensor, an analog/digital converter and a
microprocessor) and an intelligent actuator (an integration of a digital/
analog converter, an adapter circuit or a power amplifier, or even a
microprocessor).
The intelligent sensor measures analog physical quantities, for example
pressure, temperature, velocity, it digit measured values and transfers
the signal - suitably adjusted - to information processing devices.
The intelligent actuator is directly activated by the digital signal coming
from the corresponding information processing device.
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Signals are converted to analog variables, amplified and then handed
over, e.g. to create force or movement.
A closer look at relations between the system, the sensors, the
information processing and the actuators shows that a description of
the relations using flows is useful.
In principle, there are three different types of flows:
n material flow,
n energy flow,
n information flow.
n Material flow:
Examples of material flow between mechatronic system units
are solid bodies, tested objects, processed objects, gases or
liquids.
n Energy flow:
Energy is in this context understood as a different form of
energy, for example mechanical, thermal or electrical energy
but also action variables (e.g. force or current).
n Information flow:
It means the information transferred between the units of the
mechatronic system, for example measured variables, pulse
control or data.