The integrated electro-mechanical drive : a mechatronic approach

Authors:

• B.T. Fijałkowski,
• J. Tutaj

Abstract

The title of this textbook requires some explanation. ‘Mechatronics’ is the integration of physics—mechanics, fluidics, electrics and electronics, etc—and computer technologies into the research and development of cyber-physical heterogeneous continuous dynamical hypersystems. Thus, mechatronics consists of the synergistic combination of different physical disciplines like mechanics, fluidics, electrics and electronics, as well as informatics, etc. Synergy is a very creative and therefore dynamic process, far more so than the usual co-operation of the different physical disciplines, and even more so than a close integration of machine hardware and software. Mechatronics offers new solutions and unprecedented flexibility in transportation systems, industrial production processes, and aerospace, aviation, automotive and traction cyber-physical heterogeneous dynamical hypersystems, containing homogenous dynamical systems, hyposystems and components, etc.