1st Edition

Mechatronics and Robotics New Trends and Challenges

Edited By Marina Indri, Roberto Oboe Copyright 2021
    280 Pages 102 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    280 Pages 102 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    The term “mechatronics” was coined in 1969, merging “mecha” from mechanism and “tronics” from electronics, to reflect the original idea at the basis of this discipline, that is, the integration of electrical and mechanical systems into a single device. The spread of this term, and of mechatronics itself, has been growing in the years, including new aspects and disciplines, like control engineering, computer engineering and communication/information engineering.

    Nowadays mechatronics has a well-defined and fundamental role, in strict relation with robotics. Drawing a sharp border between mechatronics and robotics is impossible, as they share many technologies and objectives. Advanced robots could be defined as mechatronic devices equipped with a “smart brain”, but there are also up-to-date mechatronic devices, used in tight interaction with humans, that are governed by smart architectures (for example, for safety purposes).

    Aim of this book is to offer a wide overview of new research trends and challenges for both mechatronics and robotics, through the contribution of researchers from different institutions, providing their view on specific subjects they consider as “hot topics” in both fields, with attention to new fields of application, new challenges to the research communities and new technologies available.

    The reader of this book will enjoy the various contributions, as they have been prepared with actual applications in mind, along a journey from advanced actuators and sensors to human-robot interaction, through robot control, navigation, planning and programming issues.  The book presents several state-of-the-art solutions, like multiple-stage actuation to cope with conflicting specification of large motion-spans, ultra-high accuracy, model-based control for high-tech mechatronic systems, modern approaches of software systems engineering to robotics, aand humanoids for human assistance. The reader can also find new techniques in approaching the design of mechatronic systems in some possible industrial and service robotics scenarios, with a particular attention for the interaction between humans and mechanisms.

    Chapter 1 Mechatronics versus Robotics

    Marina Indri and Roberto Oboe

    Chapter 2 Advanced Actuators for Mechatronics

    Makoto Iwasaki

    Chapter 3 Advanced Sensors for Mechatronics

    Naoki Oda, Toshiaki Tsuji, Yasue Mitsukura, Takahiro Ishikawa, Yuta Tawaki, Toshiyuki Murakami, Satoshi Suzuki, and Yasutaka Fujimoto

    Chapter 4 Model-Based Control for High-Tech Mechatronic Systems

    Tom Oomen and Maarten Steinbuch

    Chapter 5 Control and Manipulation

    Bruno Siciliano and Luigi Villani

    Chapter 6 Navigation, Environment Description, and Map Building

    Henry Carrillo, Yasir Latif, and José A. Castellanos

    Chapter 7 Path Planning and Collision Avoidance

    Hubert Gattringer, Andreas M¨uller, and Klemens Springer

    Chapter 8 Robot Programming

    Christian Schlegel, Dennis Stampfer, Alex Lotz, and Matthias Lutz

    Chapter 9 Network Robotics

    Lorenzo Sabattini, Cristian Secchi, and Claudio Melchiorri

    Chapter 10 Intelligent, Adaptive Humanoids for Human Assistance

    Darwin G Caldwell, Arash Ajoudani, Jinoh Lee, and Nikos Tsagarakis

    Chapter 11 Advanced Sensors and Vision Systems

    Van-Dung Hoang and Kang-Hyun Jo

    Chapter 12 Human–Robot Interaction

    Kouhei Ohnishi

    Biography

    Marina Indri is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy, teaching Robotics and Automatic Control. She serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and as a Technical Editor of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

    Roberto Oboe is an Associate Professor in Automatic Control at the University of Padova, Italy. He is currently VP for Technical Activities, Chair of the Management Committee of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.