Applications of Mechatronics in various fields.

What is mechatronics and what are the different applications.

1. Applications of Mechatronics Government College of Engineering and Research, Awasari Team AAYUDH presents By Omkar Jagdale

2. Contents What is Mechatronics? How a Mechatronics system works? Components of Mechatronics System. Model of a typical Mechatronics System. Mechatronics and Human System. Applications of Mechatronics. Assignment.

3. What is Mechatronics ? Mechatronics is integration of mechanical engineering, control theory, computer science, and electronics to manage complexity, uncertainty, and communication in engineered systems. The term “Mechatronics” was coined by Tetsuro Mori , a senior Japanese engineer at Yasakawa Company in 1969.  

4. How Mechatronics System works? A mechatronic system has at its core a mechanical system which needs to be commanded or controlled by a controller. The controller needs information about the state of the system. This information is observed from sensors. In many cases, the signals produced by the sensors are not in a form ready to be read by the controller and need some signal conditioning operations performed on them. The conditioned, sensed signals are then converted to a digital form by Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) and are the sent to the controller. The controller is the ‘mind’ of mechatronics system, which processes user commands and sensed signals to generate command signals to be sent to the actuators in the system. Actuators are devices that can convert electrical energy to mechanical energy. The user commands are obtained from a variety of devices, including commands buttons, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), touch screens, or pads.

5. Model of a Typical Mechatronic System

6. Modules of a Mechatronics System Sensing I. Sensors II. Signal Conditioning III. Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Conversion Control I. Open Loop and Closed loop Control Action I. Drive Circuits II. Actuators III. Motors

7. Components of Mechatronics System

8. Model of a typical Mechatronics System

9. Mechatronics and Humans The analogy between a human controlled system and computer control system is nearabout same. If a process is controlled and powered by a human operator, the operator observes the behavior of the system (i.e. using visual observation), then makes a decision regarding what action to take, then using his muscular power takes a particular control action. One could view the outcome of the decision making process as a control or decision signal, and the action of the muscles as the actuator signal which is the amplified version of the control (or decision) signal. The same functionalities of a control system can be automated by use of a digital computer as shown in the figure. The sensors replace the eyes, the actuators replace the muscles, and the computer replaces the human brain. Every mechatronic system has some sensors to measure the status of the process variables. The sensors are the "eyes" of a computer controlled system. Actuators are the "muscles" of a computer controlled system.

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11. Applications in Manufacturing

12. Applications in space

13. Applications in Aerial Technology

14. Applications in Automobile Industry

15. Applications in Agriculture

16. Advantages of Mechatronics It is cost effective and it can produce high quality products. Production of parts and products of international standards gives better reputation and return. It serves effectively for high dimensional accuracy requirements. It provides high degree of flexibility to modify or redesign the systems. It provides excellent performance characteristics. It Results in automation in production, assembly and quality control.

17. Disadvantages of Mechatronics The initial cost is high. Maintenance and repair may workout costly. Multi-disciplinary engineering background is required to design and implementation. It needs highly trained workers to operate. Techno-economic estimation has to be done carefully in the selection of mechatronic system. It has complexity in identification and correction of problems in the systems.

18. Assignment To find applications of mechatronics in agriculture and how it can be implemented in our vehicle?