Introduction: Elements of mechatronics system: Sensor, actuator, plant, and controller.
Applications of mechatronics system. Systems like CDROM, scanner opened to see whats there inside and why?.
Integrated mechanical-electronics design philosophy. Examples of real life systems. Smart sensor concept and utility of compliant mechanisms in mechatronics
Microprocessor building blocks, combinational and sequential logic elements, memory, timing and instruction execution fundamentals with example of primitive microprocessor.
Microcontrollers for mechatronics: Philosophy of programming interfaces, setting sampling time, and Getting started with TIVA programming
Microcontroller programming philosophy emphasis on TIVA, programming different interfaces PWM, QEI etc. Mathematical modeling of mechatronic systems,
Modeling friction, DC motor, Lagrange formulation for system dynamics.
Dynamics of 2R manipulator, Simulation using Matlab, Selection of sensors and actuators.
Concept of feedback and closed loop control, mathematical representations of systems and control design in linear domain
Basics of Lyapunov theory for nonlinear control, notions of stability, Lyapunov theorems and their application
Trajectory tracking control development based on Lyapunov theory, Basics of sampling of a signal, and signal processing
Digital systems and filters for practical mechatronic system implementation. Research example/ case studies of development of novel mechatronics system: 3D micro-printer, Hele Shaw system for microfabrication.