Engineering

For a first course in Mechatronics taught at senior undergraduate level in the departments of mechanical, electrical, computer and general engineering.

This text provides a self-contained, modern treatment of the computer based mixed systems integration. The book covers fundamental topics starting with the physical properties, continuing with mathematical modeling and computer simulation and ending with applications illustrated by numerically and experimentally generated results. It explores all major topics in mechatronics and offers a detailed presentation of selected devices as well as numerous MATLAB, Simulink and LabVIEW applications.

• Thorough coverage of all important topics in mechatronics, not simply generic or descriptive aspects.

  • Gives teachers and students ample material.

• Innovative organization and approach—Begins with fundamentals and physical principles of instruments, actuators, devices, hardware and software and follows with a systematic treatment of all signal and power conversion, data acquisition and analysis topics and concludes with an examination of the issues in mechatronic systems design.

• Detailed presentation of MATLAB, Simulink and LabVIEW examples.

  • Provides numerical examples and computer simulations to help students to learn basic concepts.

• Balanced treatment of the various mechanical, electrical and computer engineering topics of mechatronics.

  • Provides students with a working knowledge required for selecting mechatronic system components from catalogues.

• Focus on presenting thoroughly, selected devices and methods, rather than an incomplete overview of all industrial solutions.

  • Enables students, after acquiring basic knowledge, to easily expand their knowledge under the guidance of references from the book.

• State-of-the-art approaches in mechatronic systems design and integration—Object oriented approach for modular modeling, virtual prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop experimentation, virtual instrumentation for system monitoring and automation, and real-time and embedded solutions for mechatronic systems integration.

  • Ability to understand and select new software and hardware for mixed systems design.

• A chapter describing laboratory experiments for a mechatronics course—These experiments are described in sufficient detail such that the teacher can reproduce and adapt them for a particular laboratory equipment available.

  • Provides students with extensive opportunities to do hands-on experiments for interfacing, a variety of sensors and actuators with a PC, as suggested in the book.

• Over 100 homework problems and computer programming exercises—Reinforces concepts learned in each chapter.

  • Provides students with numerous numerical examples with structured solutions to follow when completing homework.

1. Computer Integration of Electro-Mechanical Systems.

Mechatronics  [AOD TITLES]   (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
Mechatronics  [AOD TITLES]   (Electrical and Computing Engineering)

Dan Necsulescu is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. He received the B.S. degree in power engineering and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from University Politehnica, Bucharest, Romania and the Licentiate in Philosophy degree from the University of Bucharest. His research interests and contributions are in dynamics and control, mechatronics, robotics, and optomechanics. He has over 45 journal publications and numerous presentations to his credit, and has co-authored an, applied virtual instrumentation book, published by WIT Press in 2000.

This textbook provides a self-contained, modern treatment of computer-based mixed systems integration for a first course in mechatronics taught at the senior undergraduate level in mechanical, electrical, computer, and general engineering departments. The book covers fundamental topics, starting with physical properties, continuing with mathematical modeling and computer simulation, and ending with applications illustrated by numerically and experimentally generated results. It explores all major topics in mechatronics and offers a detailed presentation of selected devices as well as numerous MATLAB, Simulink, and LabVIEW applications.

• Introduces mechatronics issues using simple examples of mixed electromechanical systems.
• Covers the material in a structured manner, starting with theoretical background and followed by illustrative numerical problems.
• Reinforces the concepts through numerous practical examples.
• Stresses the combined use of mathematical analysis, computer modeling, and experimental examples in solving problems.
• Promotes an overall educational approach required by current engineering problems that are multidisciplinary in nature.

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