Mechatronic prototyping robot components

Virtual prototyping of mechatronic systems

Mechatronic systems abound in technological fields such as robotics and machine tools industry. Significant advances in dynamic performance of these systems can be achieved provided that mutual interactions of different domains (such as mechanics, electronics, hydraulics and control) are thoroughly understood. Virtual prototyping entails integration of multi-domain dynamic simulation in the des...

Inexpensive Prototyping for Mechatronic Systems)

This paper provides a description of an approach based on our 20-sim modelling and simulation PC software package in combination with various hardware targets with an Analog Devices Inc. DSP board as an instance. The main virtue of this approach is support for a number of (virtually any decent) hardware platforms for, in this case, a price less than a few percent compared to existing market sol...

Rapid Prototyping of Distributed Mechatronic Applications

Virtual Prototyping of Self-optimizing Mechatronic Systems

1. Design challenges of self-optimizing mechatronic systems The term mechatronics expresses the mergence of technologies from mechanical engineering, electronics and control design in modern industrial products. These innovative products are based on the combined effect of mechatronic system elements (also referred to as "solution elements" [GL00]). Future systems will comprise configurations o...

Virtual Rapid Robot Prototyping

Competition in marketplace requires manufacturers to develop their products in shorter turn-around times. This encourages engineers and researchers to devise methodologies to respond to this market-driven requirement. Rapid prototyping is one solution to produce a design in minimum amount of time. In this paper we focus on rapid prototyping of robots. For this purpose, development of the robot ...