Essentials of mechatronics [[electronic resource] /] / John Billingsley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143582803321
• Autore: Billingsley J (John)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2006
• ISBN: 1-280-45025-8; 9786610450251; 0-470-23932-8; 0-471-79153-9; 0-471-79152-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 621; 629.89
• Soggetti: Mechatronics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The bare essentials -- Gaining experience -- Introduction to the next level -- Electronic design -- Essential control theory -- Vectors, matrices and tensors -- Mathematics for control -- Robotics, Dynamics and Kinematics -- Further control theory -- Computer implementation -- Machine vision -- Case studies -- The human element.
• Sommario/riassunto: Learn how to study, analyze, select, and design a successful mechatronic productThis innovative, cutting-edge publication presents the essential nature of mechatronics, a field at the crossroads of information technology and mechanical and electrical engineering. Readers learn how to blend mechanisms, electronics, sensors, control strategies, and software into a functional design. Given the breadth that the field of mechatronics draws upon, this publication provides a critical service to readers by paring down the topics to the most essential ones.A common thread throughout the