A model for mechatronics design with embedded micro-controllers
Manuel Harfuch Díaz Barriga

Synergistic Combination

Mechanical Engineering

Electronic Control

Information Technologies

Develop intelligent
products and processes

Static

Is when the MS has a
steady state behaviour or
is in dynamic equilibrium

The enviorment, limit, input and output.

Everything outside the MS limit
is the enviorment and for preserving
order and control the MS should be
connected with it.
The Enviorment must provide inputs,
accept outputs and provide feedback
to the MS, therefore this interactions
MS-Enviorment is fundamental.

Limit

Physical

Material and structural

Temporary

Operating time and expected life

Social

Ergonomic characteristics

Psychological

Appearance and operating way

Inputs

Mass

Energy

Information

Outputs

Mass

Energy

Information

Product, Services, Information,etc

Transformation

Mass, Energy and Information
should turn to products, services,
results, information, etc.

Means

Primary tasks

Primary regulations or
fundamental tasks

Static teleology

Directedness

Secondary tasks

System elements concentrate
their energy to execute
primary tasks

Coordination tasks

How different tasks communicate
and interact with subsystems

Dynamic

While operating the MS parts interact
dynamically with each other

Codifying the information

Systems react to specific signals

Tending to stability

Tendency of the system to stabilize
in ortder to preserve order and control

Tending to disorder

The physical systems tend to disorder,
the MS must correct or stop the process
of disorganization to conserve order and
control during its life

Showing equifinality

Systems can reach same final
state regardless the initial conditions
and by different ways, in other words
MS are flexible and adapt.

Forklift

Automated guided vehicle
3 motors
Programmed by PC

AGV

Automated Guided Vehicle
Electronic Differential
Two motors

Explorer

Explorer Robot with IR sensor
4 wheels
Coordination among different taks

Four-legged robot

Two micro-controllers
One has the algorithm and other the control
Twelve motors
High Speed Serial Communication

Teleoperated hand

13° of freedom
Servo controlled
A micro-controller makes
coordination tasks
Communicates with sensor glove
by serial port

Base Elements

Screws, nuts, gear, cables,
resistances, capacitors, transistors, etc

Mechanisms

Group of elements base that
interact that interact to each other

Machines

Group of mechanism that
interact to each other

Equipment

Group of machines that
interact to each other

Systems

Group of equipments that
interact to each other

Tasks type 1

Boards

Aesthetic elements

Assemble Structures

IC

PCB's

Tasks type 2
carried on by
micro-controllers

Gears

Bands

Chains

Motors

Drivers

Sensors

Triac's

Logic Gates

Amplifiers

Coordination Tasks
carried on by
micro-controllers

In charge of processes and exchange information

Sequence control

Communication protocols

Microprocessors

Micro-Controllers

PC's

Feedback mechanisms

PID's

Flip-Flops

Sequential Circuits

Filters