[PDF] Mechatronics System Design - 2nd Edition

Competing in a globalized market requires the adaptation of modern technology to yield flexible, multifunctional products that are better, cheaper, and more intelligent than those currently on the shelf. The importance of mechatronics is evidenced by the myriad of smart products that we take for granted in our daily lives, from the cruise control feature in our cars to advanced flight control systems and from washing machines to multifunctional precision machines. The technological advances in digital engineering, simulation and modeling, electromechanical motion devices, power electronics, computers and informatics, MEMS, microprocessors, and DSPs have brought new challenges to industry and academia.

Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of mechanical and electrical engineering, computer science, and information technology, which includes the use of control systems as well as numerical methods to design products with built-in intelligence.

The field of mechatronics allows the engineer to integrate mechanical, electronics, control engineering and computer science into a product design process. Modeling, simulation, analysis, virtual prototyping and visualization are critical aspects of developing advanced mechatronics products. Mechatronics design focuses on systematic optimization to ensure that quality products are created in a timely fashion. Getting electromechanical design right the first time requires teamwork and coordination across multiple segments and disciplines of the engineering process. The integration is facilitated by the introduction of new software simulation tools that work in tandem with systems to create an efficient mechatronics pathway.

The first edition of this book was designed for the upper-level undergraduate or graduate student in mechanical, electrical, industrial, biomedical, computer, and of course, mechatronics engineering. The book was widely used in the United States and also in Canada, China, Europe,
India, and South Korea. Following feedback from experts in this field and also from the faculty who used this text book, the second edition has been considerably extended and augmented with extra depth so that not only is it still relevant for its original users, but is also apt for other emerging programs.