Assignment on Mechatronics - Introduction to a Key technology

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PALAGHAT VENKATARAMAN BALAJI

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Department of Mechanical Engineering
AITS,
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What is mechatronics?

The word Mechatronics was first introduced by the senior engineer of a Japanese company, Yaskawa, in 1969.Mechatronics is a
multidisciplinary field that refers to the skill sets needed in the contemporary, advanced automated manufacturing industry.
Mechatronics deals with robotics,  control systems, and electro-mechanical systems
Define Mechatronics design?

Mechatronic design is the integrated design of a mechanical system and its embedded control system. ... Components in various physical
domains (e.g. mechanical or electrical) can easily be selected from a library and combined into a 'process' that can be controlled by
block-diagram-based (digital) controllers.

Engineering aspects

The field of mechatronics is very promising, when it comes to job opportunities. ... Some areas where the knowledge of mechatronics
is applied are- Robotics, Telecom sector, Mechanical systems, Electrical systems, biomedical systems, and Automation, Nanotechnology,
Metallurgy and Bio mechatronics.
What are applications of Mechatronics ?

• Mechatronic is widely used in our day to day lives. Be it contact-free magnetic bearings, digitally controlled combustion
engines, robots, automated guided vehicles or other machine tools, mechatronics is present everywhere.

• It is used in home appliances such as dish washer and washing machines.

• It is used in laser optical systems. It is part of the image and sound processing devices such as sound operators and
automatic focusing device.

• Mechatronic is also used in intelligent measuring devices like calibration devices, measuring and testing of sensors.

• Mechatronic is used in the medical field as well. Many medical applications such as magnetic resonance, ultrasonic probes,
arthroscopic devices use mechatronics.

• It is used in automation like automatic air conditioning systems, security system, automatic door systems. It is also used in
pressure, heat and position control systems.

• It is widely used in aeronautics engineerings for unmanned aerial vehicles and automatic pilots. In
the defense industry it is used for automatically guided vehicles and mine
detection robots.
What are the Mechatronics research areas?

These are the research areas in mechatronics engineering

• Automotive Systems
• Bio mechatronics
• Biomedical Applications
• Design of Mechatronic Systems
• Dynamics and Vibration
• Embedded and Real-time Systems
• Energy Systems
• Experimental and Computational Micro/Nano Fluids and Heat Transfer
• Real-time Imaging and Machine Vision Systems
• Robotics, Systems and Controls
• Tissue Engineering
• Topology Optimization of Metamaterials
What are smart mechatronics systems ?

The Smart Mechatronics has designed and implemented an object control model for a simple manufacturing cell. Using object
oriented programming and design has allowed the internal program structure (virtual cell space) to closely match the physical cell
construction (physical cell space). This paper discusses the second phase of the cell implementation in which the existing C++ objects
were implemented as autonomous units under operating system control. The operating system used is Microsoft Windows and
Windows for Workgroups . Since each object is autonomous, they can assume the properties of self-monitoring agents in the system
rather than simple request servers under the sole control of the calling object. Communication between objects is facilitated by the
operating system using dynamic data exchange (DDE) calls or by compiling the module into dynamic link library (DLL) modules. This
arrangement of system control architecture increases system autonomy, concurrence, and ease of use for a relatively small overhead
penalty.
What is micro and nano mechatronics ?

Micro mechatronics is the synergistic integration of micro-electro-mechanical system, electronic technologies and precision
mechatronics with high added value.
Micro-mechatronic devices would be in the range of a few microns to 1 cm, which has played a vital role in the evolution of
MIS(Minimally Invasive Surgery).

Nano mechatronics deals with the much smaller sized world than the Micro mechatronics. Nanotechnology gives technologies
for nano-fabrication, nano-instrumentation and nano assembly for these areas, including nano-sensor, actuator and
manipulation technology.
How to become a mechatronics engineer?