| Week
1 |
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| Thurs Jan 4 |
What is mechatronics? Example systems and architecture. Basic circuits review: current and voltage sources, resistance, capacitance, inductance, constitutive laws, Kirchoff's current and voltage laws. |
Week 2 |
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| Tues Jan 9 | Basic nonlinear elements: diodes and transistors. Prep
reading: A&H
2.1-2.5, 2.7, 3.1-3.4 |
| Wed Jan 10 |
Lab 0: Building a simple alarm system |
| Thurs Jan 11 | Nonlinear circuit elements (cont). |
Week 3 |
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| Tues Jan 16 | Nonlinear circuit elements (cont) |
| Wed Jan 17 | Lab 1: Push-pull motor driver. |
| Thurs Jan 18 | Nonlinear circuit elements (cont) |
Week 4 |
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| Tues Jan 23 | Op-amps: inverting and non-inverting amps, buffers, |
| Wed Jan 24 | Lab 2: Op amps, sensors, and closed-loop motor control. |
| Thurs Jan 25 | Intro to Simulink and xPC, op-amps, sensor gallery and start
signal conditioning |
Week 5 |
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| Tues Jan 30 | Continue signal conditioning, Quiz 1 (45 minutes) |
| Wed Jan 31 | Lab 3: DC motor control with an encoder using the PC/104 stack, xPC, and Simulink. |
| Thurs Feb 01 | Motors |
Week 6 |
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| Tues Feb 06 | More motors: Stepper motors, servo motors, PWM with xPC/Simulink. Prep reading: A&H Chapter 10.6. |
| Wed Feb 07 | Lab 4: PWM for DC motors; driving steppers and servos. |
| Thurs Feb 08 | Motor sizing. Power transmission: gears (rack and pinion, spur, planetary, worm, bevel, crown, harmonic) and belt drives; torque, speed, and power equations, efficiency, inertia, reflected inertia, inertia matching. Prep reading: A&H 10.7. |
Week 7 |
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| Tues Feb 13 | Power transmission (cont). |
| Wed Feb 14 | Lab time: Project consultation. |
| Thurs Feb 15 | Digital design and integrated circuits. Combinational and sequential. A/D, D/A, counters, timers. Prep reading: A&H Chapter 6, 8.3, 8.4. |
Week 8 |
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| Tues Feb 20 | Student project presentations |
| Wed Feb 21 | Lab time: Project consultation. |
| Thurs Feb 22 | Quiz 2 -- full class period |
Week 9 |
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| Tues Feb 27 | Image processing in MATLAB -- highspeed camera demonstration |
| Wed Feb 28 | Lab time: Project consultation. |
| Thurs Mar 01 | Digital circuits (cont). |
Week 10 |
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| Tues Mar 06 | Electrical noise, isolation, grounding, shielding. Reading:
A&H
2.9-2.10, |
| Wed Mar 07 | Lab time: Project consultation. |
| Thurs Mar 08 | Final project demonstrations (Ford B100) |