Emerging Trends in Mechatronics

This book series helps understand how Mechatronics will impact the practice and research of developing advanced techniques to model, control and optimize complex systems. It presents recent state of advances in mechatronics and related technologies including: Automatic Control, Robotics, Agent Based systems, Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0. The selected topics give an overview of the state-of-the-art and present new research results and prospects of the future development in the interdisciplinary field of mechatronic systems. The book series will provide up-to-date and useful knowledge for researchers and engineers involved in mechatronics and related fields.

 

Within the above dimensions, the scope of the book series welcomes high quality original research and review articles that cover a broad range of topics related to theoretical and applied aspects of modern mechatronics. Potential topics include, but are not limited to the following:

 

 

Controller design

Many mechatronic systems have challenging control difficulties due to the high nonlinear structures and time‐varying dynamic behaviors. In addition to these, there are external disturbances, which cannot be predicted and change according to uncontrolled working environments. Conventional controllers are insufficient to solve the problems and to compensate the environmental disturbances, therefore designing efficient controllers for complex systems has a great importance in the current book series.

 

Sensor Design & Data Collection Approaches

Essential part of a mechatronics system is the measurement system that senses the variations in the physical parameters, such as temperature, pressure, displacement, and so on, and converts it to voltage or current. In mechatronic systems, accurate measurement of the dynamic variables plays a vital role for the actuators to function properly, therefore on of the aims of this book series, to focus on understanding what should be done to design accurate sensors and efficient data collection methods to improve the performance of mechatronic systems.

 

Optimization Techniques

Designing a complex mechatronic system involves multiple variables, objectives, constraints, and evaluation criteria as well as their nonlinearly coupled relationships. One of the challenging research areas of this book series is utilizing optimization techniques to design an optimal mechatronic system.

 

Artificial Intelligence

From the point of view of dynamics, mechatronic systems can be characterized by model uncertainties, high nonlinearities, complicated coupling, and stringent performance requirements, among others. To deal with these facts, this book series would like to focus on investigating and utilizing Artificial Intelligence techniques such as Neural Networks, Fuzzy logic, Neuro-fuzzy, evolutionary techniques etc. to model, design and optimize complex mechatronic systems.

 

Robotics

In the field of Robotics, there is a need of focusing on kinematic, dynamic, control and optimization of innovative robotic systems. This book series can introduce new and novel robot designs such as hybrid (serial-parallel) redundant manipulators that have a high potential of application in special fields like space robots. State of the art researches on selection of optimum kinematic solutions and path planning based on such an optimization, dynamic analysis and new control methods developments and application of artificial intelligence in this field can be published in this book series.

 

Smart manufacturing

Application of networked sensors and machinery equipment using internet and intranet in order to monitor and automation of the manufacturing process and improve the performance efficiency and is a point of interest. Advanced robotics, multi input-multi output control approaches combined with the artificial intelligence and optimization techniques, big data processing approaches, multi-scale modelling and simulation of dynamic sub-systems etc. are the hot topics that will be focused in this book series.

 

AGVs

Automated Guided Vehicle (AGVs) are going to be very popular is industry logistics, surveillance, defense and social applications in order to make processes safer and more cost efficient. Innovative AGVs designs for various missions, Robot Operating System usage on AGV control, Indoor and outdoor navigation and control algorithms, intelligent path planning techniques, sensor fusion, simultaneous application of GPS, INS and offline maps are the topics that are planned to be published in this book series.