Mechatronics and Embedded Systems

Intrinsic Embedded Sensors for Polymeric Mechatronics: Flexure and Force Sensing

While polymeric fabrication processes, including recent advances in additive manufacturing, have revolutionized manufacturing, little work has been done on effective sensing elements compatible with and embedded within polymeric structures. In this paper, we describe the development and evaluation of two important sensing modalities for embedding in polymeric mechatronic and robotic mechanisms:...

Mechatronics in fuel cell systems

Power generation from fuel cells (FCs) requires the integration of chemical, fluid, mechanical, thermal, electrical, and electronic subsystems. This integration presents many challenges and opportunities in the mechatronics field. This paper highlights important design issues and poses problems that require mechatronics solutions. The paper begins by describing the process of designing a toy sc...

Mechatronics - electronic control systems in mechanical engineering

Planning for mechatronics systems - Architecture, methods and case study

Mechatronic systems are a relatively new class of technical systems. The integration of electromechanical systems with hardand software enables systems that adapt to changing operation conditions and externally defined objective functions. To gain superior system performance from this ability, sophisticated decision making processes are required. Planning is an ideal method to integrate long-te...

Stability and Sensitivity Analysis of Fuzzy Control Systems. Mechatronics Applications

The development of fuzzy control systems is usually performed by heuristic means, incorporating human skills, the drawback being in the lack of general-purpose development methods. A major problem, which follows from this development, is the analysis of the structural properties of the control system, such as stability, controllability and robustness. Here comes the first goal of the paper, to ...