Mechatronics lectures

Mechatronics Lectures

Mechatronics Lectures

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Introduction to Mechatronics (Link to Professor Clarence de Silva lecture notes)

Review of control systems

• Review of first and second order systems in time and frequency domain

• PID control

• Tuning example (Ziegler–Nichols PID tuning method)

• DC Motor Control (By Dr. Jie Chen from Brunel Unversity of London)

State-space model

• State-space model for dynamic systems and control

• Inverted pendulum example (Equations of Motion)

• State-space model for the inverted pendulum

Linear Quandratic Regulator (LQR)

• Riccati algebraic equation

Case studies/Selected topics

• Solar powered vehicles

• Fuel-cell powered vehicles

• Vehicle dynamics and control

• Pneumatic and hydraulic automation

• MEMS/NEMS

• Quantum Robotics - Quantum Mehatronics - Quantum Autonomy (Experimental Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Cryptography for communication in multi-agent robotics applications)

• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, and Fuzzy Logic for control

Resources:

• (Mechatronics: A Lecture by Prof. Clarence W. de Silva) (Information about the talk) (Video)

• (Mechatronics: Quantum Engineering - Quantum entanglement and cryptography for robotics and autonomy) (Video)