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Mechatronics Electronic Control Systems In Mechanical And Electrical Engineering
The automatic camera, the truck suspension, and the automatic production line are examples of a marriage between electronic control systems and mechanical engineering.
Such control systems generally use microprocessors as controllers and have electrical sensors extracting information from the mechanical inputs and outputs via electrical actuators to mechanical systems. The term mechatronics is used for this integration of microprocessor control systems, electrical systems and mechanical systems. A mechatronic system is not just a marriage of electrical and mechanical systems and is more than just a control system; it is a complete integration of all of them. In the design of cars, robots, machine tools, washing machines, cameras, and very many other machines, such an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to engineering design is increasingly being adopted. The integration across the traditional boundaries of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and control engineering has to occur at the earliest stages of the design process if cheaper, more reliable, more flexible systems are to be developed. Mechatronics has to involve a concurrent approach to these disciplines rather than a sequential approach of developing, say, a mechanical system then designing the electrical part and the microprocessor part.
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