Mechatronics in Action

1. Introduction
David Bradley, David W. Russell

2. Consumption to Contribution: Sustainable Technological Development Through Innovation
John H. Millbank

3. The “Revolution”: a Small Company Revived
David Dawson

4. A Mechatronic Design Process and Its Application
Xiu-Tian Yan, Rémi Zante

5. A Mechatronic Design of a Circular Warp Knitting Machine
Memiş Acar

6. Mechatronics and the Motor Car
Derek Seward

7. Multi-mode Operations Marine Robotic Vehicle – a Mechatronics Case Study
Daniel Toal, Edin Omerdic, James Riordan, Seán Nolan

8. Wireless Communication Technology for Modular Mechatronic Controllers
Glen Bright, Nkgatho Sylvester Tlale, Christopher M. Kumile

9. The Utility Function Method for Behaviour Selection in Autonomous Robots
Mattias Wahde

10. Force Sensing in Medical Robotics
Kaspar Althoefer, Hongbin Liu, Pinyo Puangmali, Dinusha Zbyszewski, David Noonan, Lakmal D Seneviratne

11. Intelligent Prosthesis – a Biomechatronics Approach
Abbas Dehghani

12. Education in Mechatronics
Vladimir V. Vantsevich

13. Mechatronics Education
Job Amerongen

14. A Personal View of the Early Days of Mechatronics in Relation to Aerospace
Bill Scarfe

15. Mechatronic Futures
David W. Russell, David Bradley

Nyckelord: Engineering, Engineering Design, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering