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Mechatronic Systems

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 354-0334/04
Abbreviation MTSys
Course title Mechatronic Systems
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Robotics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Zdenko Bobovský, PhD.

Subject syllabus

1. Basics of the field - basic concepts, history, assumptions and stimuli, development trends, classification. Concepts and structures - subsystems, basic kinematic structures.
2. Action system - supporting mechanical subsystem - realization of kinematic structures, positioning motion units, classification, properties, principles, construction. Powerful subsystem - subsystem structure, requirements, characteristics, principles, design.
3. Gears, calculation of motor power of motion units, Rolling screw gears - types, principles, construction, calculations. Articulated mechanisms - pantographs.
4. Types of gearboxes. Planetary gears Harmonic and cyclic gears - principles, construction, calculations, design.
5. Kinematic and dynamic analysis of mechatronic systems. Direct and inverse kinematics problem. Calculation of velocities, accelerations of forces and moments
6. Supporting mechanical subsystem, types of joints, their implementation. Examples of movement units.
7. Applications of mechatronic systems, robotics, automotive industry, industrial automation.
8. Sensory subsystem, absolute and relative position sensors, quadrature signal.
9. Propulsion subsystem. Stepper motors - types, properties, characteristics, control methods, types, selection.
10. Miniature and small electric motors, properties, parameters, specifications.
11. Single and multi-speed and position control. Control units.
12. Control systems, structure (topology), lower level of control.
13. Applications of mechatronic systems - mobile and service robots.
14. Credit.

Literature

Robotics Book: Mechatronics – Principles and Applications
http://mechatronics.colostate.edu/resources.html

Advised literature

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics , ISSN: 1942-4302 , eISSN: 1942-4310 

Ganesh Naik, Intelligent Mechatronics, ISBN 978-953-307-300-2 , Hard cover, 248 pages,February 2011

T.Kenjo.,A.Sugawara .: Stepping motors and their microprocessor controls. Second editi-on.Clarendon press,Oxford 2000.
W.H.Yeadon,A.W.Yeadon.:Handbook of Small Electric Motors. McGraw Hill, 2004
Ueha,Tomikawa, Kurosawa,Nakamura.:Ultrasonic motors - Theory and Applications.
www.maxonmotor.com