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12906 (v.2) Mechatronic Systems Design 322


Area: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 12287 (v.3) Mechatronic Project 224 or any previous version
 
Syllabus: Mechatronic Motion system design - modelling electro-mechanical drive systems. Motion sensing technology. Incremental optical encoder. Position control - use of PID and model-based control schemes. Mechatronic automation - manipulator terminology. Coordinate frames. Homgenous matrix transformations. DOF/DOM. Industrial robotics and modular automation. Mechatronic drive technologies - electrical actuators. Relative advantages. Applications and control characteristics. DC servo motors, terminology, driver circuits. Sizing/selection of DC servo motors, duty cycle load calculations. Design exercise - Working in groups of two students are required to design and implement a PC based motion controller for a DC motor drive system. This includes the interface electronics, software, modelling and analysis of a number of control schemes for position control.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 
Field of Education: 031303 Electronic Engineering
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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