Rehabilitation engineering and mechatronics.

Computer-Aided Engineering and Mechatronics

This research project combines computer-aided-engineering methods with practical control strategies to develop precise fabric handling capabilities. The primary goal is to develop mechatronic design concepts for assembly processes such as: folding, joining, placing, and locating that take into account variability in fabric material properties such as weight and stiffness. Three-dimensional mode...

Mechatronics as an engineering science

The paper discusses the current understanding of mechatronics as an interdisciplinary subject. A conclusion is that mechatronics tends to attract contributions from many related fields, leading to a lack of focus as exemplified by many mechatronic conferences. Instead, the authors claim that engineers and researchers in mechatronics should concentrate on the opportunities and challenges arising...

Developing Ontologies for Collaborative Engineering in Mechatronics

Creating a coherent set of ontologies to support a collaborative design process amongst different firms which develop mechatronic products is a challenge due to the semantic heterogeneity of the underlying domain models and the amount of domain knowledge that needs to be covered. We tackle the problem of semantic heterogeneity by employing the DOLCE foundational ontology and by aligning our mod...

Mechatronics - An Education Approach towards Product Engineering

This paper shows that Mechatronics is more than just combining mechanical, electrical and information processing elements. Although state of the art control engineering works from a systems point of view, it becomes evident that mechatronics design is much more than understanding interacting phenomena of the different building elements, transferring these phenomena into abstract models and mani...

Mechatronics - electronic control systems in mechanical engineering