Mechatronics And Systems Instruction Across Graduate, Undergraduate, And Research Applications Using Rapidly Reconfigurable Hardware

Abstract

since 2003 and shares a joint faculty appointment with the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute. Since 1998, he has published over a dozen papers on topics ranging from systems dynamics, modeling, identification, and control; robust control; and vehicle chassis dynamics. His current areas of study include modeling and experimental validation of vehicle dynamics, human-in-the-loop experimental testing, novel sensing and hardware systems, and fault-tolerant sensing and control.

Industrial Motion Control as a Context for Mechatronics Education

“…The academic programs are heavily oriented towards control theory, board-level electronics, interfacing and microprocessors supplemented with laboratory equipment, such as the inverted pendulum, and projects, such as Lego robots [5][6][7] . But industrial applications require mechanical engineers to design machines with multiple axes that execute complex, high speed, high precision coordinated motion using sophisticated motion controllers.…”

New Mechatronics Curriculum on Multi-Axis Industrial Motion Control

“…However, there is an important gap remaining between the academic programs and the needs of the graduates and industry. The academic programs are heavily oriented towards control theory, board-level electronics, interfacing and microprocessors supplemented with laboratory equipment, such as the inverted pendulum, and projects, such as Lego robots [5][6][7] . But industrial applications require mechanical engineers to design machines with multiple axes that execute complex, high speed, high precision coordinated motion using sophisticated motion controllers.…”