Mechatronics: Intelligent Machines
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2016) | Viewed by 92941
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The technical term “Mechatronics” was coined by Mr. Tetsuro Mori, in 1969 when he worked for the Yaskawa Electric Corporation in Kitakyushu, Japan. The purpose was to promote a new approach to produce machine tools by integrating mechanics and electronics to generate machines with a greater flexibility, consistency and productivity. Since then, the explosion of low-cost computing, embedded systems, and Artificial Intelligence techniques has broadened the scope of the domain and allowed applications to scale new heights of sophistication. Mechatronics is, therefore, a multi-disciplinary, integrating, systems-based approach that yields enhanced products, processes, and systems.
Whilst the discipline relies heavily on enabling technologies, theoretical design, and modeling, it is essentially an applications-driven domain, where the embodiment is a crucial factor in demonstrating the effectiveness of the mechatronic approach.
This Special Issue aims to bring together papers that report recent advances and challenges in addressing problems and designing new solutions for improvements of design and implementation of mechatronic systems. Original contribution papers are expected with contents that present successful solutions to new problems in intelligent systems. We believe that this Special Issue will be useful and informative to both researchers and practitioners. We also hope to deliver readers promising new ideas and directions for future developments in the field of mechatronics.
Suitable topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Sensors and Actuators
- Machine vision
- Novel designs and smart structures
- Embedded systems
- Systems integration
- Condition based awareness
- Intelligent systems/Negotiant systems
- Robotics
- Medical/Biomedical applications
- Manufacturing machinery applications
- Service applications
- Automotive applications
- Aerospace applications
Prof. Dr. Robert Parkin
Guest Editor
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