Application Of Mechatronics Research Articles

Mechatronics and Precision Livestock Farming in Mexican Animal Production

For México, the base projection shows that the demand for this meat grows at rates faster than the production, reason why an increase in the imports in the long term is expected. The base projection shows that purchases abroad will reach a level close to 390 thousand tons in 2018.In Mexico, the deficit in the milk market is complemented by imports. For 2009, an import of 1.0 billion liters is estimated and in 2018 these are hoped to fall to 946 million liters [1]. According to these projections makes it necessary to analyze the pressure for increased food production of animal origin, leading to review technologies applied in the rest of the world to carry out such an increase, a technology is the application of mechatronics to animal production, which is also known as livestock farming precision. Being the objective of the present article the revision of the state of the art in the world and in Mexico of this technology. In Mexico it is possible to increase the productivity of Livestock Farming, if the decision to guide and formed human capital and training are taken at all three levels ; Bachelor , Masters and Ph D , to the research and application of livestock mechatronics, results in developed countries so it evidence Mexico cannot be left behind in this regard , besides that is the only way to increase food production, applying mechatronics in animal production .So previously treated the perspectives for the precision animal production in the country are very big.

Guest Editorial An Overview of Biomedical Robotics and Bio-Mechatronics Systems and Applications

The studies on bio-mechatronics systems and applications have been carried out for more than three decades, to overcome the challenges raised from both theoretical and experimental sides, especially those posed by the application of mechatronics and robotics in healthcare and medical fields. The research on biomedical robotics and bio-mechatronics covers a diverse spectrum of rapid rising interdisciplinary areas including bio-inspired robots for industrial, military, medical, and rehabilitation applications. This special issue aims at showcasing the most exciting and recent advances in the application of robotics and mechatronics in various fields and brings together a broad spectrum of topics covering various definition, development, control, and deployment of bio-mechatronics/robot systems, including social robots, wearable robot systems such as exoskeleton, rehabilitation robot, tele-robot, and a numbers of systems engineering approaches such as modeling, optimization and control. This special issue is to give analysis to the biological systems from a “bio-mechatronic” point of view, and to investigate the engineering and scientific principles behind their remarkable performance. High-quality original papers of innovative ideas and concepts have been included in the special issue of biomedical robotics and bio-mechatronics systems and application. While the design and development of bio-inspired machines and systems with novel and high performance in various applications have been investigated as well. The recent development of multidisciplinary research shall contribute to the promotion of the research on biomedical robotics and bio-mechatronics systems and application, with application to transportation, diagnosis, surgery, assistive technology, prosthetics, personal assistance, rehabilitation, health care, in laboratory, hospital, and the real world.

Survey and Introduction to the Focused Section on Mechatronics for Sustainable and Resilient Civil Infrastructure

The application of mechatronics in civil engineering has increased the sustainability and resilience of large-scale civil infrastructure, whose safe operation is among the utmost important issues concerning human society and our daily lives. Meanwhile, challenges faced in large-scale infrastructure applications bring about interesting and new topics for research in mechatronics. This paper firstly reports a brief survey of the recent research progresses on the construction automation in civil engineering, intelligent sensing, structural monitoring and health management, and feedback control of structural vibration. Next, a brief highlight to eight papers in this “Focused Section on Mechatronics for Sustainable and Resilient Civil Infrastructure” is provided. Finally, some latest topics, challenges, and the future trends of mechatronics application in civil infrastructure are discussed.

The Application of Mechatronics Technology in Coal Mine Machinery

The continuous development of the mechatronics technology provides important means for the mine electromechanical products to achieve safe, efficient and mechanized. First, mechatronics technology is introduced by this paper. Then the application of Mechatronics in the coal mine machinery are elaborated.

General Situation of Constuction Machinery Development in Mechatronics Technology

This is an introduction to brief development of construction equipments intellectualization and information with typical technology. Providing that the application of mechatronics which includes electronic monitoring, automatic alarm and fault self-diagnosis, a new type of transmission device, leveling system and vertical system, automated or semi-automated control, automated or semi-automated control and the construction machinery remote monitoring and service system in the field of mechanical engineering. This article describes the mechatronics trends in construction machinery.

Engineering Technological in Agriculture Research and Education

Engineering technological especially on automation and mechanization in agricultural and plantation industry is still new and still under research and development. The application of computer, mechatronics and machines for agricultural production has been one of the outstanding developments in Malaysian agriculture. This paper describes on the recent research at Malaysian public university on the uses of computer and electronics towards machines for the agricultural operations. It has been generally agreed that industrial robotics do not provide sufficient information related to the bioproduction field, although some fundamental theories and technologies were applicable to the bioproduction machine. Agricultural products are diversified and complicated, the environment around the objects changes from time to time, and the machine mechanism should adapt to physical properties and cultivation methods of the biological objects. These are some of the considerations that agricultural mechanization needs to address. Current trend in agriculture is integration with biotechnology application, the demand of which may increase in conjunction with the land capabilities by variety humanity activities. Although adoption of one agriculture activity per house area is a viable strategy in the framework of food security, as in a general, an agricultural production is labour intensive. The agricultural landscape has seen an increase in adoption of modern technologies, be it in small scales, including those in the agro-based manufacturing sector. This, to some extent, has increased the productivity and at the same time decreased the labour dependency. In conclusion, studies on electronic and computer-assisted devices leading to automation for application in agriculture had to be perpetually carried out.

Graphical human interface technology for use in mechatronics in engineering education

AbstractThis study proposes a graphical human interface technology for use in mechatronics learning. This learning system elucidates, for students, the principles, function, and application of mechatronics, and also demonstrates the use of graphical monitoring and control technology. Students can, in advance, design a graphical monitor program to monitor and control mechatronics module. Students learn, verify, and acquire lectured concepts by performing mechatronics experiments in the laboratory. The most important part of the system is the implementation of the experimental module in laboratory sessions, using the graphical interface technology. The suitability of this technology of the laboratory concept is demonstrated in the Department of Industrial Education and Technology at National Changhua University of Education. Preliminary evaluation of the laboratory platform was encouraging and has shown that it has achieved success in helping students understand concepts and master basic technology. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 21: 322–327, 2013

AN APPLICATION OF MECHATRONICS IN MANUFACTURING WITH OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING IN A WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT

CITATION: Jurgens, M. L. J. & Page, D. C. 1999. An application of mechatronics in manufacturing with object-oriented programming in a windows environment. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 10(1):23-30, doi:10.7166/10-1-370.

Special Issue on Mechatronics

The challenge in mechatronics – the foundation of modern machines and systems – is how to synergistically integrate electro-mechanical systems best with computing hardware and software to optimize intelligence and maximize usefulness. This special issue covers the latest developments in mechatronics, together with their wide-ranging applications. Part 1 features four papers (issue number 5 – the previous issue). Part 2 features the five papers appearing in this issue (issue number 6). The increasing importance of precisely dispensing droplets is demonstrated by two papers in Part 1. Saeda’s paper focuses on 3D printing – a novel way for accurately dispensing droplets to form materials manufactured layer by layer. Zhao and Huang’s paper details how to compensate in a new way for errors in droplet distribution and thereby improve inkjet printing quality. An important application of mechatronics is the tracking of humanmovement. In Part 1, Akagi et al. discuss a novel, wearable sensor for detecting the movement of joints, which is very useful in rehabilitation and similar functions. In Part 2, Terabayashi et al. explain how multiple persons are tracked by 2 cameras, introducing clever image processing and shadow detection and demonstrating their proposal’s efficacy both indoors and outdoors. Two papers focusing on human-mechatronics systems with the human in the loop are presented in Part 2. Kawarazaki and Yoshidime cover interesting human-robot communication, important in enabling robotics operate in our daily lives – a field called social robotics. Their system uniquely combines voice recognition and image processing to detect gestures and human movement. The second paper, by Carlier and Murakami, deals with driver assistance based on smart road detection and tactile feedback as an interface with drivers of intelligent vehicles. Three more papers focus on problem in robotics and control. In Part 2, P. Y. Lam and T. K. Sin present a self-balancing bicycle robot based on a control-moment gyro. In Part 1, Yamashita et al. address motion planning problems for a biped robot. Yoshimura et al. describe 3D attitude control for underactuated satellites with thrusters. I hope this special issue will inspire you to contribute to the exciting field of mechatronics. I thank the authors and reviewers for their many efforts in making this special issue possible.

Human movement onset detection from isometric force and torque measurements: A supervised pattern recognition approach

Recent research has successfully introduced the application of robotics and mechatronics to functional assessment and motor therapy. Measurements of movement initiation in isometric conditions are widely used in clinical rehabilitation and their importance in functional assessment has been demonstrated for specific parts of the human body. The determination of the voluntary movement initiation time, also referred to as onset time, represents a challenging issue since the time window characterizing the movement onset is of particular relevance for the understanding of recovery mechanisms after a neurological damage. Establishing it manually as well as a troublesome task may also introduce oversight errors and loss of information. The most commonly used methods for automatic onset time detection compare the raw signal, or some extracted measures such as its derivatives (i.e., velocity and acceleration) with a chosen threshold. However, they suffer from high variability and systematic errors because of the weakness of the signal, the abnormality of response profiles as well as the variability of movement initiation times among patients. In this paper, we introduce a technique to optimise onset detection according to each input signal. It is based on a classification system that enables us to establish which deterministic method provides the most accurate onset time on the basis of information directly derived from the raw signal. The approach was tested on annotated force and torque datasets. Each dataset is constituted by 768 signals acquired from eight anatomical districts in 96 patients who carried out six tasks related to common daily activities. The results show that the proposed technique improves not only on the performance achieved by each of the deterministic methods, but also on that attained by a group of clinical experts. The paper describes a classification system detecting the voluntary movement initiation time and adaptable to different signals. By using a set of features directly derived from raw data, we obtained promising results. Furthermore, although the technique has been developed within the scope of isometric force and torque signal analysis, it can be applied to other detection problems where several simple detectors are available.

Advances in GPR-based landmine automatic detection

Abstract As an application of mechatronics, this paper presents the advances in surface-adaptive ground penetrating radar (GPR)-based anti-personnel landmine detection project in Nagoya University. These advances can be summarized in three items: (1) GPR manipulation where a low-pressure-tire vehicle capable of moving inside a mine field, to facilitate machine-based sensing in place of manual sensing, is applied; (2) enhancement of underground landmine suspects’ images through geography adaptive scanning and measurements signal processing of a vector frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) GPR; (3) GPR fusion with metal detector (MD) for automatic decision making through experimental-based fuzzy learnt fusion rules. The state-of-art of these advances as well as directions for future research work is to be presented.

Mechatronic Systems for Machine Tools

This paper reviews current developments in mechatronic systems for metal cutting and forming machine tools. The integration of mechatronic modules to the machine tool and their interaction with manufacturing processes are presented. Sample mechatronic components for precision positioning and compensation of static, dynamic and thermal errors are presented as examples. The effect of modular integration of mechatronic system on the reconfigurability and reliability of the machine tools is discussed along with intervention strategies during machine tool operation. The performance and functionality aspects are discussed through active and passive intervention methods. A special emphasis was placed on active and passive damping of vibrations through piezo, magnetic and electro-hydraulic actuators. The modular integration of mechatronic components to the machine tool structure, electronic unit and CNC software system is presented. The paper concludes with the current research challenges required to expand the application of mechatronics in machine tools and manufacturing systems.

Mechatronics Course Design for Industry

As the field and application of mechatronics grows, Engineering and Vocational and Technical education must grow with it to meet the needs of industry. This paper focuses on the designing of a mechatronics courses for industry. University-government-industry and Private Companies have collaborated in a project and shared responsibilities and tasks. In this article, we describe our experience in running mechatronics courses for Engineers, Higher Technician and Technician Courses in Ankara’s industry since 2001.We also describe an industryuniversity co-operation model, training of trainers, the designing of a mechatronics laboratory and course in accordance to the expectations of industry, setting up the feedback mechanism of keeping quality of courses, developing projects financing and management methods

Lifetime observer: an application of mechatronics in vehicle technology

This paper presents the concept of a lifetime observer for application in vehicle technology. The basic idea is to equip the mechanical systems with sensors and information-processing components in order to monitor stress in critical components on-line, and to predict potential damage, failures, and the remaining lifetime by using a mathematical damage model. Systematic aspects in the design of lifetime observers and condition monitoring systems are discussed, and existing applications of lifetime observers in vehicle technology introduced.

Graduate Mechatronics course in the school of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech

The field and application of Mechatronics is broad, encompassing, and interdisciplinary. Teaching Mechatronics to mechanical engineering graduate students is difficult because many students lack undergraduate backgrounds in control theory, digital and analog electronics, and in low to mid-level programming. Therefore, how to teach Mechatronics continues to be an open area for discussion. This paper focuses on the structure of the graduate Mechatronics course in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. An overview of the recently revised graduate Mechatronics course and the laboratory experiences is presented. Student projects are also included to demonstrate knowledge learned in the course.

Mechatronic strategies for torque control of electric powered screwdrivers

The paper presents the results of a study on using mechatronics to enhance the performance and reliability of small electric powered screwdrivers (SEPS). A mechatronic solution to control the final tightening torque replacing the mechanical clutch of a purely electromechanical SEPS is presented. Torque estimation methods based on motor armature current measurements are integrated with an SEPS driven by a direct current motor. Strategies for controlling the final tightening torque of the screw fastening process are developed. The control strategies are tested in accordance with the ISO 5393 standard. It is shown that the mechatronic controller gives comparable performance to a SEPS with a mechanical clutch. The mechatronic solution has the advantage of reduced cost, size and complexity. The paper demonstrates the application of low-cost mechatronics in industrial power tools.

高齢者・障害者の移動支援におけるメカトロニクス応用(<特集>ホームケアテクノロジー : 健康長寿社会をめざして)

高齢者・障害者の移動支援におけるメカトロニクス応用(<特集>ホームケアテクノロジー : 健康長寿社会をめざして)

生産の自動化・高度化を支えるメカトロニクス メカトロニクスの精米機への応用

生産の自動化・高度化を支えるメカトロニクス メカトロニクスの精米機への応用

Mechatronics of active vision

Machine vision suffers from fundamental difficulties in terms of algorithm complexity and methodological approaches in finding solutions to basic problems. The active vision paradigm is an effort to address these issues by enabling the seeing agent to manipulate its visual parameters in time and space so as to simplify its computational tasks and solve for the ambiguities in the process of visual perception. In this paper it is argued that if the goal of research in computational vision is considered to be that of understanding and designing seeing systems, then we need a design strategy. In our particular case, the design strategy has been influenced by anthropomorphic qualities. The empirical nature of such research also requires systems by which one can perform experiments in real-time and in interaction with the environment. This criterion has also been an important guide-line in the design of the system. The need for the manipulation of the visual parameters is a typical application of mechatronics—the interaction between the mechanics and electronics— of a complex perceptual system. By an analysis based on observations from the primate visual system, we describe the design of such a system. Details of its implementation and performance are also provided. To demonstrate that the system meets the requirements derived from our analysis, we finally describe a set of experiments with the designed robot head involving gaze control and the integration of a set of primary ocular processes.