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Mechatronics Fundamentals

Course title: Mechatronics Fundamentals

Code: FEIT06Z004

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

Course goals/Competences: Introduction to mechatronics fundamentals as complex systems with different measurement elements, actuators, control and application. With successful passing of the course the student becomes competent to understand mechatronic system, its simulation, projecting, exploitation and maintenance

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Introduction. Mechatronics system structure. System basic elements (sensors and transducers, signal conditioning, data presentation systems). Actuators (pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical and electrical). Mechatronics system models. Digital logic fundamentals. Microprocessor systems in mechatronics (microprocessors, input/output ports, programmable logic controllers, communication systems, fault finding).

Literature:

Literature

Compulsory literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

W. Bolton

Mechatronics - Electronic Control Systems in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

Longman

2000 (3ed)

2

S. E. Lyshevski

Electromechanical Systems, Electric Machines and Applied Mechatronics

CRS Press

2000

3

G. C. Onvubolu

Mechatronics – principes and applications

Elsevier UK (Alamina)

2005

Further literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

P. Elgar

Sensors for Measurement and Control

Longman

1998

2

P. C. Sen

Principles of Electric Machines and Power Electronics

John Wiley & Sons

1989

3

T. Kenjo

Electric Motors and their Controls - An Introduction

Oxford University Press

1999