Industrial Manufacturing / Edition 1

by Cornelius T. Leondes

Overview

The Technical Committee on Mechatronics formed by the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, in Prague, Czech Republic, adopted the following definition for the term: Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of precision mechanical, electronic control and systems thinking in the design products and manufacturing process Due to developments in powerful computers, including microprocessors and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICS), computational techniques, diverse technologies, advances in the design process of products and other factors, the field of mechatronics has evolved as a highly powerful and most cost effective means for product realization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789056996703
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/10/2000
Series:	Mechatronic Systems, Techniques and Applications Ser. , #1
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Integrated Process Design and Control: A New Paradigm with Applications to Mechatronics 2. Mechatronic Systems Techniques in Computer Numerical Control of Machine Tools 3. Mechatronics Applied to Web Forming Processes 4. The Hot Strip Rolling Mill Looper: A Control Design Study 5. Thermomechatronics: Mechatronic Systems and Guidance Techniques in Thermal Manufacturing Process Control 6. Passivity Based Regulation of Nonlinear Continous Processes 7. Observer and Control Techniques for Bilinear Systems

Editorial Reviews

The first of five volumes on integrating mechanics and electronics to provide a cost effective means for realizing products. Seven studies cover a new paradigm for integrated process design and control with applications to mechatronics, mechatronic systems techniques in the computer numerical control of machine tools, mechatronics applied to web forming processes, a control design study of the hot strip rolling mill looper, mechatronic systems and guidance techniques in thermal manufacturing process control, passivity-based regulations of nonlinear continuous processes, and observer and control techniques for bi-linear systems with applications in mechatronics. The other volumes will deal with transportation and vehicular systems; energy and power systems; electromechanical systems; and diagnostic, reliability, and control system techniques. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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