ABSTRACT
Electromechanical systems integrate electromechanical motion devices, transducers, power electronics and converters, controllers, data acquisition systems, etc. The design specifications imposed on electromechanical systems are given in the systems domain. The undergraduate curriculum covers the major concepts in mathematics needed, and one should concentrate on the fundamental electromechanical features. Electromechanical systems must be studied using the fundamental laws and basic principles of mechanics and electromagnetics. The basic concepts of electromagnetic field theory constitute the foundation of electromechanical motion devices, as well as electromechanical systems analysis and design. Mechatronics is a multi-disdplinary conceptual framework, based on a concurrent integrated concept, and used to perform the comprehensive analysis and design, optimization and control, implementation and deployment of advanced state-of-the-art electromechanical systems. Mechatronics emerges as a most general concept that provides a systematic and unified conceptual framework in analysis and optimization, prototyping and design, and control and deployment of robotic manipulators.
