Mechatronic Futures

1. Mechatronic Futures
David Bradley, Peter Hehenberger

2. Mechatronics Disrupted
Maarten Steinbuch

3. Future Challenges in Mechatronics
Nicolas Albarello, Alexandre Arnold, Marc Budinger

4. TiV-Model—An Attempt at Breaching the Industry Adoption Barrier for New Complex System Design Methodologies
Craig Melville, Xiu-Tian Yan, Lixiang Gu

5. Digital Twin—The Simulation Aspect
Stefan Boschert, Roland Rosen

6. Design Processes of Mechatronic Systems
Matthieu Bricogne, Julien Le Duigou, Benoît Eynard

7. Design of Biomimetic Soft Underwater Robots
Aiguo Ming, Wenjing Zhao

8. Improving the Robustness of Mechatronic Systems
Antonio Lanzotti, Stanislao Patalano

9. Integrated Manufacturing: The Future of Fabricating Mechatronic Devices
Nicholas Fry, Rob Richardson, Jordan H. Boyle

10. From Mechatronic Systems to Cyber-Physical Systems: Demands for a New Design Methodology?
Peter Hehenberger, Thomas J. Howard, Jonas Torry-Smith

11. The Internet of Things: Promise of a Better Connected World
George R. S. Weir

12. Home Technologies, Smart Systems and eHealth
Jorge Azorin-Lopez, Andres Fuster-Guillo, Marcelo Saval-Calvo, David Bradley

13. The Changing Landscape of Enterprise ICT—Responding to New Possibilities and User Demands
Christopher Milne, Steve Watt

14. Engineering Design for Mechatronics—A Pedagogical Perspective
Simeon Keates

15. Mechatronics Education: Meeting Future Need
David Russell

16. Conclusions
Peter Hehenberger, David Bradley

Nyckelord: Engineering, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Engineering Design, Computational Science and Engineering