Mechatronics: Designing Intelligent Machines. Perception, Cognition and Execution

✍ Scribed by George Rzevski (Auth.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Ltd, Newnes
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Series: Perception, Cognition & Execution - Mechatronics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mechatronics is the fusion of mechanics and electronics in the design of intelligent machines. Such machines now play an important role in consumer products, transport systems, manufacturing and the service sector. This book sets out the fundamentals of mechatronics and the engineering concepts and techniques that underpin the subject: planning, search techniques, sensors, actuators, control systems and architectures.

This student guide discusses the building blocks of mechatronic systems in terms of the subsystems for perception, cognition and execution, as a framework for designing intelligent machines such as video cameras, robots, and automatic guided vehicles

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Inside Front Cover, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
PREFACE, Page v
The Open University ‘Mechatronics’ Course, Page vi
OVERVIEW OF VOLUME 1, Pages xiv-xx
CHAPTER 1 - FUNDAMENTALS, Pages 1-23
CHAPTER 2 - SENSORS, Pages 25-61
CHAPTER 3 - INFORMATION, Pages 63-100
CHAPTER 4 - PERCEPTION, Pages 101-133
CHAPTER 5 - COGNITION, Pages 135-158
CHAPTER 6 - PLANNING, Pages 159-193
CHAPTER 7 - ACTUATORS, Pages 195-217
CHAPTER 8 - CONTROL, Pages 219-262
CHAPTER 9 - ARCHITECTURES, Pages 263-296
CHAPTER 10 - DESIGN, Pages 297-322
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Page 323
INDEX TO VOLUME 1, Pages 324-332