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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cost reducing a design involves redesigning a working system to cut production costs. While the reasons for this are understandable, it often strikes engineers as a betrayal of the project they just ...

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 ...

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

The influence of global trends like electric mobility and the rising demand for consumer goods in emerging nations has made a lasting impact on technological developments by changing requirements for ...

As field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) continue to drop in price while adding significant capability, their use has expanded greatly in industrial control and monitoring applications. And since ...

Mechatronics hardware design and architecture unites mechanical structures with electronic control and embedded intelligence to create adaptive, high-performance systems. At its core lies ...