MSE 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hubble Space Telescope, Photocopier, Leadscrew

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Mechatronic Sys Engineering
• Course: MSE 310
• Professor: Edward J.Park

Document Summary

The importance of mechatronic devices in particular, the application of electromechanical sensors and actuators in industry and their impact on emerging technologies has increased dramatically in recent years. This course is an introductory course on design and application of such electromechanical sensors and actuators in mechatronics. More and more electromenchanical sensors and actuators can be considered as mechatronic devices themselves. So, first, let"s take a look at the definition of the term mechatronics : basic definitions. The definition of mechatronics has evolved since the original definition by the yasakawa. The word, mechatronics, is composed of mecha from mechanism and the tronics from electronics. In other words, technologies and developed products will be incorporating electronics more and more into mechanisms, intimately and organically, and making it impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. One often quoted and evolved definition of mechatronics was presented by harashima,