OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

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•INTRODUCTION

•HARDWARE

•EXPERIMENTAL SETUP

•LIVE DEMO

•CONCLUSIONS

•REFERENCES

What is the Mechatronics?

Mechatronics basically refers to mechanical electrical systems and is centered on mechanics, electronics, computing and control which, combined, make possible the generation of simpler, more economical, reliable and versatile systems.

The term "mechatronics" was first assigned by Mr. Tetsuro Mori, a senior engineer of the Japanese company Yaskawa, in 1969.

What is the Mechatronics?

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Disciplinary Foundations of Mechatronics

• Mechanical Engineering

• Electrical Engineering

• Computer Engineering

• Computer/Information Systems

InformationSystems

ElectricalSystems

ComputerSystems

MechanicalSystems

Mechatrnoics

Mechatronic Design Process

Key Elements of Mechatronics

Elements of Mechatronics—Mechanical

• Mechanical elements refer to

– mechanical structure, mechanism, thermo-fluid, and hydraulic aspects of a mechatronics system.

• Mechanical elements may include static/dynamic characteristics.

• A mechanical element interacts with its environment purposefully.

• Mechanical elements require physical power to produce motion, force, heat, etc.

Machine Components: Basic Elements

Inclined plane wedge

Slider-Crank

Cam and Follower

Gear, rack, pinion, etc.

Chain and sprocket

Lever

Linkage Wheel/Axle Springs

Elements of Mechatronics—Electromechanical• Electromechanical elements refer to:

– Sensors

• A variety of physical variables can be measured using sensors, e.g., light using photo-resistor, level and displacement using potentiometer, direction/tilt using magnetic sensor, sound using microphone, stress and pressure using strain gauge, touch using micro-switch, temperature using thermistor, and humidity using conductivity sensor

– Actuators

• DC servomotor, stepper motor, relay, solenoid, speaker, light emitting diode (LED), shape memory alloy, electromagnet, and pump apply commanded action on the physical process

• IC-based sensors and actuators (digital-compass, -potentiometer, etc.).

DC Motor Pneumatic CylinderFlexiforce Sensor

Elements of Mechatronics—Electrical/Electronic

• Electrical elements refer to:

– Electrical components (e.g., resistor (R), capacitor (C), inductor (L), transformer, etc.), circuits, and analog signals

• Electronic elements refer to:

– analog/digital electronics, transistors, thyristors, opto-isolators, operational amplifiers, power electronics, and signal conditioning

• The electrical/electronic elements are used to interface electro-mechanical sensors and actuators to the control interface/computing hardware elements

Elements of Mechatronics—Control Interface/Computing Hardware

• Control interface/computing hardware elements refer to:

– Analog-to-digital (A2D) converter, digital-to-analog (D2A) converter, digital input/output (I/O), counters, timers, microprocessor, microcontroller, data acquisition and control (DAC) board, and digital signal processing (DSP) board

• Control interface hardware allows analog/digital interfacing

– communication of sensor signal to the control computer and communication of control signal from the control computer to the actuator

• Control computing hardware implements a control algorithm, which uses sensor measurements, to compute control actions to be applied by the actuator.

Mechatronics Applications

• Smart consumer products: home security, camera, microwave oven, toaster, dish washer, laundry washer-dryer, climate control units, etc.

• Medical: implant-devices, assisted surgery, haptic, etc.

• Defense: unmanned air, ground, and underwater vehicles, smart munitions, jet engines, etc.

• Manufacturing: robotics, machines, processes, etc.

• Automotive: climate control, antilock brake, active suspension, cruise control, air bags, engine management, safety, etc.

• Network-centric, distributed systems: distributed robotics, tele-robotics, intelligent highways, etc.

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Education Research

Development

Education Bsc., Msc. and PhD regulations (Catalog)

Preparation of curricula guidelines (Printed and Online materials)

Academic advertising for mechatronics

Preparing list of lab equipments

Educational/public training courses (courses and partners)

Comparative survey on local/international mechatronics institutes

Contact with mechatronics pioneers to share ideas and strategies

Inviting our strategic partners to explore the future

Research

• Preparing our short/long term research plan (topics, fund, priorities)

• Contacting mechatronics leading firms to join our strategic partnership

• Academic promotion for our research products

• Scheduling our academic activities (conferences, training, visiting Prof. etc.)

• Preparing our academic exchange program

• Preparing our academic press (small scale)

• Contacting our strategic partners to plan the future work

Development• A survey on the local and international job market of mechatronics

• A survey on the increasing demand in automation and exploring the available chances of this field

• Preparing a study on mechatronics standards in industry and automation

• Linking education, research and development

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BY:KARL ABDELNOURROBERT ECKHARDTSAUMIL PARIKH

Mechatronics Curricula • Introduction to engineering (eng. math, physics, chemistry, mechanical

systems, eng. drawing, etc.), • Engineering software; C, Java, Matlab, Labview, VEE, Linux etc.• Fundamental of mechanical system design and analysis• Electronic devices, circuits and systems• Digital systems, computer architecture and computer interface• Applied control theory (I, II and III)• Robotics (sensors, actuators, control, vision, AI, etc.)• Instrumentation and measurements• Signal & image processing• CAD/CAM, NC and CNC• Embedded systems, sensors, actuators and software• Fine mechanical parts, MEMS and nanotechnology• Integrated mechanical/electrical systems• Language (English)

Mechatronics Labs (6G*N) ۩ Computer software lab۩ Aero-, thermo- and fluid dynamics۩ Embedded systems lab۩ CAD/CAM lab۩ Digital electronics lab۩ Robotics۩ Robocup team lab۩ Electronics lab۩ Advanced electricity lab۩ Lab of mechanical systems۩ Lab for fundamental chemistry۩ Lab for basics of physics۩ Eng. drawing hall۩ Electrical/mechanical workshops۩ Language lab

Robotics CurriculaIntroduction to Robotics: History, Asimov’s laws, Different types of robot platforms (humanoid, Car-like, holonomic & non-holonomic, miniature, manipulators, animators, indoor, outdoor, space robots, medical robots, under water robots, locomotion, areal robots, educational robots, legged robots, mobile robots, robot simulators etc.)Path Planning: objectives and methods (Voronoi, Bug, potential field, visibility, reactive, road map). Environment modeling:  the general meaning and the applied techniques (occupancy grid, topological graphs, integrated, 3D modelling). Distributed sensors: IR, laser, sonar, E-nose, vision, artificial skin, artificial ear etc. Robot kinematics and inverse kinematicsSensors Integration: advantages, weaknesses and methods (Bayes network, Kalman filter, fuzzy logic, particle filter). Robot actuators: Hydraulic, pneumatic and electric drives (DC, Ac, servo, and stepper motors)Self localization: Introduction and techniques (SLAM, Markov, Bayes network, expectation maximizing, maximum likelihood).

Robot Platforms (6)

Light SensorSound Sensor

Ultrasonic SensorCompass SensorAccelerometer Sensorkey transponder

NXT Intelligent Brick Servo Motor

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT

Touch Sensor

Stepper, AC and DC Motors