ME 433 ADVANCED MECHATRONICS

Considering taking this course? More info here and below

2005 Projects:

• Servosphere
• Wifi controlled mobile robot
• HDD steered laser
• Tremor cancelling laser pointer
• Planar parts shaker
• Collusor game
• Myoelectric arm

2004 Projects:

• IR tracker
• Wind direction indicator
• Finger exoskeleton
• Servomotor demo
• Tactile pin array
• Selfhealing whisker
• EMG operated arm

2003 Projects:

• High bouncer
• Foosball goalie
• Navigator
• Autostalker
• Rat whisker
• Spinning clock 2.0

2002 Projects:

• Cricket Killer
• Snakeboard
• Steered mirror
• Spinning clock
• Haptic FM radio
• Bicycle terrain simulator

NU Mechatronics Wiki

• http://hades.mech.northwestern.edu/wiki

Labs

• Lab 1 - analog electronics, sensors, protoboard construction
• Lab 2 - build double integrator, solderboard construction, QNX i/o programming
• Lab 3 - use double integrator, manual "controller", digital controller

Single-board computer hardware & I/O

• PC-104 stack and xPC --- instructions

• Datasheets for favorite electronic parts
• Instrumentation amp PCB, for strain gauges etc.
• Motor amp PCB & using 12V power bricks

• see the Wiki

• Yaskawa AC servomotors

• KMA200 magnetoresistive angle sensor
• Rings of small magnets as an encoder disk

QNX real time OS

• Unix (flavor: QNX) quickstart
• C programming quickstart
• QNX Reference docs, html

• Tutorial and reference links
• Code and examples

• Undergraduate Mechatronic Design Projects
• Undergraduate Mechatronics Design Lab