Mechatronic For Our Future Life

Mechatronics is the combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering. Mechatronics is centred on mechanics, electronics, control engineering, computing, molecular engineering (from nanochemistry and biology) which, combined, make possible the generation of simpler, more economical, reliable and versatile systems. Mechatronics may alternatively be referred to as "electromechanical systems" or less often as "control and automation engineering". Mechatronics is a new approach in engineering design and production based on the integration of two of the classical engineering disciplines, namely mechanical and electrical engineering, along with computer science and especially software engineering. A system composed of mechanical and electrical parts, overlaid with sensors that record information, with microprocessors that interpret, process and analyze this information, and finally assemblies that react upon the information, constitutes a mechatronic system. Examples include, at a simple yet typical level, some of the smart products that are used as ordinary consumer goods in our daily lives, such as cameras, video recorders, CDs, photocopiers or washing machines, all of which incorporate sensors, microprocessor-based controllers and actuators that make them more versatile and easy to use. Automated machines used in medicine, agriculture, banking, mining or manufacturing that can sense, perceive, reason, decide and act are also mechatronic systems. Thus an almost endless list comprises devices that constitute contemporary technologies of automation.