12906 (v.3) Mechatronic Systems Design 431

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. Homogenous 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 and 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
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Essential *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
2008	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