Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati PIN 781 039 Assam, India Week 2 Lecture 1 Mechatronics based systems Outline ❖ Definition of a system ❖ Example of a system – a mechanical spring ❖ Mechatronics based automated system ❖ Building blocks of a mechatronics based system ❖ Development of an equivalent mechatronics based system A system ❖ A system: a box or a bounded whole which has input and output elements, and a set of relationships between these elements.
❖ The set of relationships between input
and output elements represents the behaviour of a real system.
❖ The process of representation the
relationship in a mathematical form is called “modelling of the system”. A typical mechanical system ❖ Typical spring system: It has ‘force’ as an input which produces an ‘extension’ ❖ Follows the Hooke’s law ❖ F = kx, where F is the force in N, x is the distance in m and k is the stiffness of the spring. A spring system Mechatronics based automated system ❖ A Mechatronics based automated system has following building blocks: ➢ Measurement systems: sensors, signal conditioners, display units ➢ Drives and actuation systems ➢ Microprocessor systems ➢ Software Building blocks Equivalent mechatronics based automated spring system ❖ A hydraulic piston-cylinder device ❖ Sensors and a measurement system ❖ Microprocessor or microcontroller ❖ Generation of signals of appropriate level and of suitable type ❖ Actuation: extension or contraction of the cylinder ❖ Development of a computer program to mimic the principle of Hookes’ Law Equivalent mechatronics system Microprocessor based hydraulic piston- cylinder arrangement Summary ❖ Meaning of the term “system” ❖ Mechanical spring as an example of the system ❖ Mechatronics based automated system ❖ Various building blocks of a typical mechatronics based system ❖ How to develop an equivalent mechatronics based system? Week 2: Lecture 2 ❖ Flexible manufacturing system ➢ Definition ➢ Automated equipment used ❖ CNC technology in manufacturing ❖ Vertical milling process: an example