MECHATRONICS

Adolfo SENATORE MECHATRONICS

0612300024
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
EQF6
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
2024/2025

YEAR OF COURSE 3
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2018
SPRING SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
660LESSONS
Objectives
THIS COURSE AIMS AT PROVIDING THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS ABOUT INTEGRATION BETWEEN MECHANICAL, ELECTRONIC AND HYDRAULIC SUBSYSTEMS TOGETHER WITH TRADITIONAL CONTROL METHODOLOGIES.
THE COURSE CONTENTS INCLUDE THE ANALYSIS OF THE MAJOR ACTUATORS AND SENSORS, AS WELL AS SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR SIMULATION PURPOSE ALONG WITH EXPERIMENTS ON TEACHING SETUPS DESIGNED FOR TAILORED MECHANICAL SYSTEMS WITH FEEDBACK CONTROL.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: THIS COURSE FOCUSES ON USEFUL TOOLS FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF OPERATIONS, SCOPES AND PERFORMANCES EXPECTED FROM TYPICAL DEVICES IN AUTOMATIC PLANTS IN THE INDUSTRIAL AREA AROUND THE UNIVERSITY AND WITHIN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT AS WELL.
THE SECTION "SYSTEMS' MODEL" IS FOCUSED ON WIDE APPLICATION METHODOLOGY TO ASSESS THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF SYSTEMS AND DEVICES.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: SIMULATION EXERCISES PROPOSE CASE STUDY AND HINTS TO APPLY THE METHODOLOGIES LEARNT AT CLASSES.

AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT: THE COURSE "MECHATRONICS" IS ALSO DESIGNED TO STIMULATE AUTONOMOUS JUDGEMENT SKILL FOR COMPARING ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF AUTOMATION AND CONTROL, THROUGH SOLID AND SHARED CRITERIA.

COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS: ACCORDING TO THE EXAMINATION METHOD EXPLAINED BELOW, STUDENTS ARE ASKED TO ILLUSTRATE AND DISCUSS THEIR OWN SOLUTION TO THE SIMULATION PROBLEM GIVEN WHILE SITTING THE EXAM, ALSO TO STIMULATE THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS AS WELL AS TO LEARN THE COMPARISON STRATEGY AND THE TRADE-OFF WITH ALTERNATIVES PROPOSED BY COLLEAUGUES IN WORKING ENVIRONMENT.

LEARNING ABILITY: BE ABLE TO APPLY AND UPDATE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE IN CONTEXTS DIFFERENT FROM THOSE PRESENTED DURING THE COURSE, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND THE INNOVATION WHICH COULD BE BROUGHT BY A WELL TESTED METHODOLOGY OR TECHNIQUE TO A NEW FIELD.



Prerequisites
KNOWLEDGE OF DYNAMICS OF MACHINE SYSTEMS AND FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
STUDENTS WHO PASSED THE EXAM OF MECCANICA APPLICATA ALLE MACCHINE ARE ALLOWED TO SIT THE EXAM OF MECHATRONICS.
Contents
BASICS AND SYSTEMS' MODEL; SUBSYSTEM AND SET; INPUT TYPES. DIRECT SOLUTION (CLOSED FORM), LAPLACE'S TRANSFORM. TRANSFER FUNCTION; TRANSIENT AND STEADY-STATE REGIMES. OPEN- AND CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL. MATLAB/SIMULINK APPLICATIONS. (LECT. 10/EXERC. 4/LAB. 6).
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS FOR MECHANICAL SYSTEMS CONTROL: SENSORS TO ACQUIRE DISPLACEMENT AND SPEED. ENCODER, RESOLVER, NO-CONTACT SENSORS. EXAMPLES AND MODELS OF ELECTRIC ACTUATORS. HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR. HARMONIC DRIVE AND GEAR REDUCERS FOR ROBOTICS. ROLE OF TRANSMISSION RATIO IN STEADY-STATES AND TRANSIENTS (LECT. 16/EXERC. 5/LAB. 5).
SIMULATION AND LABORATORY. VIBRATING SYSTEMS AND CONTROL: SKYHOOK DAMPING. PID CONTROLLER FOR 1 DOF SYSTEMS. TEACHING LAB SETUPS: TWIN ROTORS AND ANTI-LOCK BRAKING SYSTEM. MATLAB/SIMULINK APPLICATIONS (LECT. 4/EXERC. 2/LAB. 8).
Teaching Methods
LECTURES, EXERCISES AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS, LABORATORY APPLICATIONS. COMPUTER SIMULATIONS PROPOSE PROBELMS OF MECHANICAL DYNAMICS WITH CONTROL SYSTEMS AND ACTUATORS: IT IS REQUIRED A SOUND MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF THE SYSTEM AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATLAB-SIMULINK PROJECT TO FIND QUANTITATIVE RESULTS. ITALIAN TAUGHT COURSE.
Verification of learning
THE ASSESSMENT OF THE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS IS CARRIED OUT THROUGH A COMPUTER SIMULATION TEST AND AN ORAL TEST.

THE ASSESSMENT OF THE SIMULATION EXERCISE ASSIGNS POSITIVE MARK TO: ORIGINALITY OF THE PROPOSED SOLUTION, RIGHT PRE-SIMULATION WRITING OF THE MATHEMATICAL MODEL ABOUT DYNAMIC SYSTEM AND ITS CONTROLLER (IF ANY), LIMITED COMPLEXITY OF THE ALGORITHM AS FUNDAMENTAL STEP TO AVOID SIMULATION MISTAKES, VERSATILITY OF THE CONTROL SOLUTION DESIGNED BY THE CANDIDATE.

THE FINAL GRADE, EXPRESSED IN THIRTIETHS WITH EXCELLENCE GRADE AS TOP MARK, ("LODE") WILL DEPEND ON THE GLOBAL MATURITY ACQUIRED ON THE COURSE CONTENTS.
THE MINIMUM GRADE (18 OUT OF 30) IS OBTAINED THROUGH A RIGHT MODELLING OF THE SYSTEM PROPOSED BY THE TEST ESSAY WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROBLEM REQUIREMENT AND AN ENOUGH GOOD OVERALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE COURSE TOPICS. HIGHER GRADES WILL BE ASSIGNED TO STUDENTS WHOSE SIMULATION RESULTS ARE ESSENTIALLY RIGHT WITH LIMITED NUMBER OF UNCERTAINTIES WHOSE EFFECT IS MAINLY FOUND IN THE SIMULATION OUTCOMES FROM QUANTITATIVE POINT OF VIEW. THE GRADE 30 OUT OF 30 IS PROPOSED TO THE STUDENTS WHO SHOW SOUND SOLUTION UNDER QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE OF THE SIMULATION TEST POINT OF VIEWS WITH DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF THE COURSE TOPICS.
THE EXCELLNCE GRADE OR TOP MARK - LODE - WILL REWARD STUDENTS WHO ACQUIRE THE SKILL TO FORMULATE SOLUTIONS IN BROADER ENGINEERING CONTEXTS, EVENTUALLY IN PRESENCE OF UNUSUAL OR NOT EXPLICITLY EXPLAINED/DESCRIBED PROBLEMS ALONG THE LESSONS.

Texts
DIANA, RESTA, “CONTROLLO DI SISTEMI MECCANICI”, ED. POLIPRESS, ISBN: 9788873980244, 2007.
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON ELEARNING WEBSITE: HTTP://ELEARNING.UNISA.IT/
NOTES FROM THE CLASSES.

MORE BOOKS AS ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
ALLOTTA, PUGI, “MECCATRONICA, AZIONAMENTI ELETTRICI ED OLEODINAMICI, 2016, SOCIETÀ EDITRICE ESCULAPIO ISBN: 978-88-7488-922-8.
LEGNANI, ADAMINI, TIBONI, “MECCANICA DEGLI AZIONAMENTI” VOL.1 AZIONAMENTI ELETTRICI, PROG. LEONARDO – BOLOGNA ISBN: 88-86524-64-1
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