Applied Mechatronics

Applied Mechatronics synthesizes the disciplines of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering to provide a comprehensive overview of the various technologies and tools used to develop mechatronic devices. Co-written by Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering professors who co-teach this interdisciplinary course, this text highlights the information each discipline might have considered prerequisite so students can focus on material new to them. Designed for a first course in mechatronics, it contains numerous practical, classroom-tested examples, experiments, and simulations using SIMULINK, MATLAB, and LabVIEW, and presents material in a format that lends itself to collaborative, project-based learning.

1. Mechatronics: An Introduction; 2 . Elements and Analysis of Electric Circuits; 3. Diode, Transistor, and Thyristor Circuits; 4. Operational Amplifier (Op-amp) Circuits; 5. Digital Logic and Logic Families; 6. Microcontrollers and Programming; 7. Parallel I/O and Interrupt Mechanism; 8. Serial Interface Facility; 9. Programmable Timer Facility; 10. Analog-to-Digital (A/D) and Digital-to-Analog (D/A) Conversion; 11. Sensors and Their Interface; 12. Electric Actuators; 13. Control Schemes; 14 . Case Studies ; Appendixes; A. DC Power Supply; B. Pinout of Selected ICs; C. Instructions Set, Addressing Modes, and Execution Times for the MC9S12C DC Power Supply; D. MC9S12C Registers and Control Bit Assignments; E. Using the Code Warrior Integrated Development Environment (IDE); F. ASCII Code; G. Number Systems; H. Mechanisms for Mechatronics