With fully interactive products now the norm, mechanical-control circuitry has emerged as an integral part of embedded-system design. Although designers have since the early days of electronics used ...

If you design mechatronic systems and want to learn more about using microcontrollers (MCUs) in your applications, then listen to our Design News radio program Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 2:00 p.m. EDT.

It is now practical to write software for real-time systems long before the actual computer hardware is sitting in a physical prototype. In today’s world it is rare to find electromechanical devices ...

To improve the design of consumer goods and industrial motion setups, engineers have embraced mechatronics — but have had to develop techniques to deliver on its promises of flexibility and ...

Though mechatronics promises more efficient machines at alower cost, following the mechatronics' approach of integrated designhas been challenging for most machine builders. The premise ofmechatronics ...

Too often, machine design is based simply on cost, because money is easier to understand than the stated performances. Mechatronics provides the engineer with the ability to choose products from a ...

Mechatronics hardware design and architecture represents a confluence of mechanical, electronic, and computational disciplines aimed at creating integrated, reliable and intelligent systems.

The top drivers in industry today forimproving development processesare shorter product-developmentschedules and increased customerdemand for better-performing products.As engineering systems become ...

With the annual RoboBusiness conference coming up fast (Sept. 23-24 in San Jose), I had a chance to talk beforehand with some of the participants. One was Matt Ondler, president of Houston ...

Mechanical + electronics = mechatronics. Simple. Yes? Actually, mechatronics covers a lot of ground and means different things to different designers, ranging from basic motor control of a single ...