ABSTRACT
Mechatronic systems must be designed and analyzed with the ultimate objective to ensure best performance and guarantee achievable capabilities under physical (electromagnetic, mechanical, thermal, etc.), technological, and other limits. To ensure optimal performance and capabilities, various tasks should be performed, for example, synthesis, modeling, optimization, control, etc. These tasks, in some extent, were emphasized in Chapter 1, where the mechatronic system organization and basics were covered. In general, the terms and abbreviation design and analysis have very broad meanings and intent. For example, design may imply overall syntheses at device and system levels (devising device physics and synthesis of electromagnetic systems thereby engineering devices, devising system topology= organization=architecture, etc.); closed-loop system design, which is also frequently referred to as system optimization; etc. The evolving design and analysis taxonomy, applied at the devices and systems, integrates functional, structural, and behavioral design tasks implying
1. Devising and assessing system organization and architecture to ensure overall system functionality and operationability meeting the specified requirements
2. Device synthesis (engineering devices) with device physics analysis, assessment, and evaluation
3. Components matching, compliance, and completeness
4. Preliminary evaluation: Device-level data-intensive electromagnetic and mechanical analyses to estimate device-and system-level achievable performance and capabilities, while avoiding costly and time-consuming hardware testing of an entire system
5. Development of advanced software and hardware to attain the highest degree of synergy, integration, efficiency, and performance
6. Coherent experimental evaluation to examine the system performance
7. Hardware and software testing, characterization, and evaluation with possible redesign tasks
Studying mechatronic systems, the emphasis is placed on
. Devising and design of high-performance systems by applying advanced (or discovering innovative) components and devices (actuators, power electronics, sensors, controllers, driving=sensing circuitry, ICs, etc.)
Analysis, and Design with
. Analysis and optimization of motion devices (actuators, motors, sensors, transducers, etc.)
. Development of high-performance power electronics, signal processing, and controlling ICs
. Synthesis and implementation of optimal control algorithms
The quantitative and qualitative design and analyses are carried out by performing synthesis, evaluation, assessment, and other tasks. As the soundness of functional and structural designs is guaranteed, the designer focuses on various tasks. For example, performing integration, one studies different components, such as ICs, power electronics, actuators, motion devices, kinematics, etc. The functional, structural, and behavioral designs are related to the analysis problems within the following three-step taxonomy. The first step is to accomplish various preliminary design and analysis tasks. In particular,
. Engineer, design, examine, and analyze a mechatronic system using a multilevel hierarchy concept applying sound principles: Define the system organization and develop multivariable input-output pairs between system components, for example, study kinematics, motion, and motionless devices (actuators, sensors, transducers), electronics, ICs, controller, input=output, and other devices.
