Kececi - Mechatronic Components

First Edition

Emin Faruk Kececi

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The different components of the mechatronic system are already explained in field-specific books but since mechatronics is an interdisciplinary subject of mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering, it is hard for an engineer to understand all the different components of these fields. It is especially important to understand the different choices of components and how they are different from each other.

In this book, approximately 130 components are explained with diagrams and flowcharts, so that any engineer from the aforementioned fields can understand the general properties and selection criteria of a component. It is considered that this book will be useful to upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, and professional engineers to help them to understand the different components used in their mechatronics projects (mostly mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering majors).

It takes a village to raise a child is a beautiful African proverb to explain the process of writing a book. There were so many people who have helped me in one way or the other to put this book together and I am very grateful for their kindness, hard work, and support.

Elsevier Publishing Company is so professional that in almost 2 years after I proposed this book it is finding itself on the bookshelf. It was a pleasure to work with Sonnini Yura and Naomi Robertson. I was very pleased with their promptness and support. They made the process so smooth that I would love to work with Elsevier again for my next book project.

The students of MKM 503E Mechatronic System Components course at Istanbul Technical University helped me to develop these ideas. It is due to their hard work that this book came together as it is.

I would also like to thank my doctoral student, Majid Mohammad Sadeghi, whose wondering mind always surprises me and who gave me ideas about this book and criticized me the most, which I hope made the book better.

Finally, I would like to thank my family: my daughter Ann Ayse Yasam Kececi, my son Yasar Daniel Kececi for their unlimited love, and my wife Anne Adams Kececi for her patience and support.

I would like to dedicate this book to my father and my mother, who taught me the importance of education and provided me the opportunity.

October 11, 2018

Istanbul, Turkey

Ten years ago in 2008, an article was published in the journal Control Engineering Practice titled as Mechatronic systemsInnovative products with embedded control by Rolf Isermann from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. This article describes the mechatronics as Many technical processes and products in the area of mechanical and electrical engineering are showing an increasing integration of mechanics with digital electronics and information processing. This integration is between the components (hardware) and the information-driven functions (software), resulting in integrated systems called mechatronic systems.

After 10 years when the cited documents were examined, there were 173 of them. When we look at the cited documents, we can see titles such as Automotive control: the state of the art and perspective, The Internet of ThingsThe future or the end of mechatronics, Multisensor fusion and integration: A review on approaches and its applications in mechatronics, and Beyond advanced mechatronics: new design challenges of Social-Cyber-Physical systems.

As we can see from this simple example mechatronics is everywhere, from automotive control to internet of things to cyber-physical systems. So, one should wonder what happened that the concepts of mechatronics was able to grow this fast in the last decade. Because when we consider mechanical engineering, this field has been around for thousands of years and gained momentum with the Industrial Revolution. Same growth happened with electrical engineering which started to develop in the 19th century and still continues to advance.

Mechatronics is not a new concept, it is not even a field; it is a way of thinking and natural way of growth of mechanical engineering. As mechanical engineers we have realized that so many things inside the machines can be achieved by using electronics much more easily rather than making the whole system all mechanical. Moreover, the importance of both control and measurements greatly advanced the machines and all these necessities helped the field of mechatronics to grow.

When we look at the last decade we can understand how mechatronics systems are developing with an increasing speed. There are six reasons for this exponential growth. They are as follows: