YEAR III L T P C

DESIGN OF MECHATRONICS SYSTEM

SEMESTER VI 3 0 0 3

OBJECTIVES :

 To study about different Motors and its Applications

 To learn about various Mechanical systems and its designs
 To understand real time interfacing and data acquisition

UNIT – I : ROTATIONAL DRIVES 9

Rotational drives - Pneumatic Motors: continuous and limited rotation - Hydraulic Motors:
continuous and limited rotation - Brushless DC Motors - Motion convertors, fixed ratio, invariant
motion profile,variators, remotely controlled couplings Hydraulic Circuits and Pneumatic Circuits.

UNIT – II : MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND DESIGN 9

Mechanical Systems and Design - Mechatronic approach - Control program control, adaptive control
and distributed systems - Design process - Types of Design - Integrated product design -
Mechanisms, load conditions, Design and flexibility Structures, Load conditions, Flexibility and
environmental isolation – Man machine interface, Industrial design and Ergonomics, Information
transfer from machine to machine, machine to man and man to machine, Safety.

UNIT – III : REAL TIME INTERFACING 9 Real

time interfacing - Introduction Elements of data acquisition and control ,Overview of I/O process -
Installation of I/O card and software - Installation of application software- Over framing.

UNIT – IV :CASE STUDIES ON DATA ACQUISITION 9 Case

studies on Data Acquisition - Testing of transportation bridge surface materials - Transducer
calibration system for automotive applications ,Strain Gauge, weighing system - Solenoid force -
Displacement calibration system - Rotary optical encoder - Inverted pendulum control - Controlling
temperature of a hot/cold reservoir - Pick and place robot - Carpark barriers.

UNIT – V :CASE STUDIES ON DATA ACQUISITION AND CONTROL ` 9 Case

studies on Data Acquisition and Control - Thermal cycle fatigue of a ceramic plate - pH control
system –De-Icing Temperature Control System - Skip control of a CD Player – Auto focus Camera,
exposure control. Case studies on Design of Mechatronic products - Motion control using D.C.
Motor, A.C. Motor and Solenoids -Car engine management - Barcode reader
Total Hours: 45

TEXT BOOKS:

1) Bolton, -Mechatronics - Electronic Control systems in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering-, 2nd
Edition, Addison Wesley Longman Ltd., 1999.

2) Devdas shetty, Richard A. Kolk, -Mechatronics System Design,- PWS Publishing company, 1997

3) Bradley, D.Dawson, N.C. Burd and A.J. Loader, Mechatronics: Electronics in Products and
Processes, Chapman and Hall, London, 1991.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1) Brian Morriss, Automated Manufacturing Systems - Actuators, Controls, Sensors and Robotics
Mc Graw Hill International Edition, 1995.

2) Gopel Sensors A comprehensive Survey Vol I & Vol VIII, BCH Publisher, New York.
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DEGREE / BRANCH : B.E. - MECHATRONICS

SUBJECT NAME : DESIGN OF MECHATRONICS SYSTEMS
SUBJECT CODE :
YEAR & SEMESTER : III/VI
REGULATION : CBCS R 2015

Unit-1
Rotational drives
Part-A
1. Define rotational system.
2. What is the need for pneumatic motor?
3. What are the types of pneumatic motor?
4. What is need for hydraulic motor?
5. What are the types of hydraulic motor?
6. What is continuous and limited rotation?
7. Define variators.
8. What are the components used in brushless DC motors?
9. What are the applications in pneumatic motors?
10. What are the application in hydraulic motors?
11. What is meant by fixed ratio motion converters?
12. Mention various components of hydraulic system.
13. Draw the symbols of air servicing equipments.
14. What are the uses air reservoir ?
15. What do you meant by logic values?
16. State the purpose of providing air dryers.
17. State the function of a control valve.
18. Draw the hydraulic circuit.
19. List different control valve.
20. Define actuator.

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 PART-B
1. Explain the working principle of pneumatic motors
2. Explain the working principle of brushless DC motors.
3. Explain about continuous and limited rotation of pneumatic motors.
4. Explain about continuous and limited rotation of hydraulic motors.
5. Explain remotely controlled coupling in hydraulic circuits.
6. Briefly explain remotely controlled coupling in pneumatic circuits.
7. Explain (a) fixed ratio (b) invariant motion profile (c) variators.
8. Explain briefly about motion converted.
9. Explain briefly about invariant motion profile.
10. What are the variators? Explain its types?
UNIT -2
Mechanical system and design
PART –A
1. Define mechanical system.
2. What are the Mechatronics approaches?
3. Define Mechatronics.
4. What is the program control?
5. What is the adaptive control?
6. What is the distributed system?
7. Define design process.
8. What are the types of design process?
9. What is the product design?
10. Define load conditions.
11. Define flexibility.
12. What are the applications of mechanical system?
13. What is the environmental isolation?
14. What are the man machine inter face?
15. What is the industrial design?
16. Define ergonomics.
17. Define machine to man.
18. Define isolation.
19. Define safety.
20. Define adaptive control.

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1. Explain briefly about design Mechatronics system.

2. Explain briefly about Mechatronics approaches.
3. Explain briefly adaptive control and distributed systems.
4. Explain integrated product design.
5. What is the design process? Explain with the types of design.
6. Explain briefly design flexibility structures.
7. Explain briefly about man machine interface.
8. Explain briefly about industrial design and ergonomics.
9. Explain briefly about information transfer from machine to machine.
10. Explain briefly about machine to man and man to machine.

UNIT -3
Real time interfacing
PART –A
1. What is meant by real time interfacing?
2. Give some example of real time interfacing.
3. What are the four major components of interfacing process?
4. Define data acquisition.
5. What are the major components of DAC system?
6. What are the three channel types of data transfer?
7. What is meant by interrupt vector?
8. What is meant by thermocouple?
9. What is meant by max gain?
10. What is meant by multiplex flex channel?
11. What are the five major components in a stepper motor control program?
12. What is meant by flow calculation?
13. Define motor shaft angle calculation.
14. What are the types of memory possible in a PC?
15. Define panel.
16. Define actuator.
17. Define real-world process.
18. Define sensor.
19. Define overframming.
20. Draw Wheatstone bridge circuit programming.

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 PART -B
1. Briefly explain the element of a data acquisition &control system.
2. Explain about overview of the I/O process
3. Explain installation of the I/O card & software
4. Explain briefly application software using Labview environment.
5. Explain briefly basic and simulation using vissim
6. Explain briefly configuring vissim for real-time operation
7. With neat sketch explain cantilever beam force measurement
8. Explain briefly controlling a stepper motor
9. Explain about data acquisition and control system
10. Explain briefly about overframing.

Unit -4
Case studies on data acquisition
PART-A
1. What are the four general components of data acquisition systems?
2. What are the hardware components required for the testing of transportation bridge surface
materials?
3. What are the objectives in transducer calibration system for automotive system?
4. Write the formula for computating the strain?
5. Draw the circuit diagram of transducer test rig.
6. Draw the application diagram of strain gauge weighing system.
7. What is purpose of rotary optical encoder?
8. What are the types of rotary optical encoder?
9. What is meant by incremental encoder?
10. Write the formula for finding direction calculation?
11. What is meant by quadrature?
12. Draw optical encoder application diagram.
13. Define solenoid force-displacement calibration system.
14. How to install the typical transducer? Draw the diagram?
15. Draw the strain gauge weighing system application diagram?
16. Define strain gauge weighing system.
17. Define transducer calibration system for automotive application.
18. Draw transportation material testing-application diagram.
19. What are the part lists for transducer calibration system for automotive application?
20. With neat sketch draw the diagram for transducer test rig.

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 PART-B
1. Explain the testing of transportation bridge surface materials.
2. Explain about transducers calibration system automotive applications.
3. Briefly explain strain gauge weighing system.
4. Briefly explain solenoid force and displacement system.
5. Explain about rotary optical encoder.
6. Briefly explain inverted pendulum control.
7. Explain controlling temperature of a hot/cold reservoir.
8. Explain the pick and place robot.
9. Explain briefly car park barriers.
10. Explain the cause’s studies on data acquisition.
Unit-5
Case studies on data acquisition control
PART –A
1. Define plate handling &plate cooling.
2. Write the two statements denoting the operation of controller in thermal cycle fatigue of
ceramic plate method.
3. Write two methods of employed to remove noise.
4. Write the objective of PH control system.
5. Write the part list in PH control system.
6. Draw PH system DAC algorithm.
7. Write about case study of “controlling temperature of a hot and cold reservoir”
8. Write about case study of “computer-aided wall thickness measurement and evaluation
system”
9. Write about case study of “inverted pendulum.”
10. Write about case study of “precision position sensing using computer interface”
11. Write about case study of “computer –monitored automated torque wrench for threaded
fasteners”
12. Write about case study of “evaluation system”
13. Write about case study of tension control system”
14. Write about case study of computer-controlled fluid-power –operated hydraulic winch”
15. Write about case study of proportional control and monitoring of metal –forming
operation”
16. Write about case study of monitoring of bulk material in transit using computer interface”
17. Write about case study of active vibration control using magneto strictive transducer
18. Write about case study of evaluation of human muscle performance using sensor
interface and vissim
19. Write about case study of neural network and pattern recognition using the industrial robots
and vissim
20. Define vissim

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 PART-B
1. Briefly explain thermal cycle fatique of a ceramic plate.
2. Explain overview experiment of the PH control system.
3. Explain overview and parts &experiment of the de-icing temperature control system.
4. Explain overview &experiment of skip control of a CD player.
5. Explain about autofocus camera and how to control exposure.
6. Briefly explain the case studies on design of Mechatronics products.
7. Explain motion control using DC motor &AC motor.
8. Explain motion control using solenoids.
9. Explain car engine management system.
10. Briefly explain barcode reader.

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