Applied Mechatronics [Paperback]

Applied Mechatronicssynthesizes the disciplines of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering to provide a comprehensive overview of the various technologies and tools used to develop mechatronic devices.

Co-written by Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering professors who co-teach this interdisciplinary course, this text highlights the information each discipline might have considered prerequisite so students can focus on material new to them. Designed for a first course in mechatronics, it contains numerous practical, classroom-tested examples, experiments, and simulations using SIMULINK, MATLAB, and LabVIEW, and presents material in a format that lends itself to collaborative, project-based learning.

1. Mechatronics: An Introduction
2 . Elements and Analysis of Electric Circuits
3. Diode, Transistor, and Thyristor Circuits
4. Operational Amplifier (Op-Amp) Circuits
5. Digital Logic and Logic Families
6. Microcontrollers and Programming
7. Parallel I/O and Interrupt Mechanism
8. Serial Interface Facility
9. Programmable Timer Facility
10. Analog-to-Digital (A/D) and Digital-to-Analog (D/A) Conversion
11. Sensors and Their Interface
12. Electric Actuators
13. Control Schemes
14 . Case Studies
Appendixes
A. DC Power Supply
B. Pinout of Selected ICs
C. Instruction Set, Addressing Modes, and Execution Times for the MC9S12C
D. MC9S12C Registers and Control Bit Assignments
E. Using the CodeWarrior Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
F. ASCII Code Table
G. Number Systems
H. Mechanisms for Mechatronilƒ¼