Mechatronics and manufacturing engineering: Research and development

Mechatronics is an interdisciplinary area of engineering that combines mechanical, electronic and mechanical engineering. Its main purpose is to study automata from an engineering perspective. Today, mechatronics systems are well established in a large number of industries such as automotive, aircraft, aerospace, electronics and biomedical.Professor J. Paulo Davim and the team of contributors he has assembled, aim to provide information on mechatronics for modern industry with an emphasis on manufacturing engineering with this book. They cover issues of innovation, design and development in relation to the implementation of light-scattering instrumentation; recent developments for planar micromanipulation on microconveyor platforms and basic active/passive joint torque control of single-axis arm. Chapters also discuss signal processing for tool condition monitoring, artificial neural network (ANN)modeling of fractal dimension in machining, soft computing techniques for predicting forces and damage in drilling of polymer composites. The book ends with explaining how to minimize burr size in drilling and the single point incremental forming of polymers.