Mechantronics An Introduction - Robert H Bishop

Mechantronics An Introduction - Robert H Bishop

Preface

According to the original definition of mechatronics that the Yasakawa Electric Company proposed and the definitions that have since appeared, many engineering products designed and manufactured in the last thirty years that integrate mechanical and electrical systems can be classified as mechatronic systems.

In trademark application documents, Yasakawa defined mechatronics in this way:

The word mechatronics is composed of mechatronics from mechanism and the mecatronics  from electronics. In other words, technologies and developed products will be incorporating electronics more and more intimately and organically into mechanisms, making it impossible to tell where one ends and

the other begins.

Where is mechatronics today? The advent of the microcomputer, embedded computers, and associated information technologies and software advances have led to important advances in mechatronics. For example, consider the automobile. In the early stages of automobile design, the radio was the only significant electronics in it. All other functions were entirely mechanical or electrical. Today, there are about 30-60 microcontrollers in a car. And with the drive to develop modular systems for plug-n-play mechatronics subsystems, this is expected to increase.

Mechatronics: An Introduction provides an introduction to the vibrant field of mechatronics. As the

historical divisions between the various branches of engineering and computer science become less clearly defined, the mechatronics specialty provides a roadmap for nontraditional engineering students studying within the traditional structure of most engineering colleges. Evidently, mechatronics laboratories and classes in the university environment are expanding world-wide. The list of contributors to this book that includes authors from around the globe reflects this.

The material in Mechatronics: An Introduction

appeared in a more complete form in The Mechatronics Handbook that CRC Press and ISA-The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society copublished.

The Mechatronics Handbook was conceived as a reference resource for research and development departments in academia, government, and industry, and for university libraries. It also was intended as a resource for scholars interested in understanding and explaining the engineering design process. The success of the full-scale handbook spawned the idea that a more condensed book, providing a general impression of the subject, would benefit thwhose searching for an overview of the mechatronics. This book intends to serve this new audience.

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