MIT Course 2.737 - Mechatronics
Revised Content and Renovated Facilities
Welcome to 2.737 Mechatronics! In this course you'll learn many of the practical details involved in designing systems that contain electrical, mechanical, and control system components. Laboratories form the core of the course, and these will cover topics ranging from quantization and aliasing to power electronics, sensors, motor control, and digital logic. All of these topics are integrated into a final project which in recent years has included a laser light show and a polar coordinate plotter.
Over the summer we have entirely renovated the equipment and facilities. The most signficant change is the move to a rapid prototyping system by dSPACE for controller implementation. With this system, the designer develops and tests the algorithm in Simulink. The dSPACE real-time interface to Simulink then takes care of creating executable code from the block diagram and downloading that to a digital signal processor for interaction with the physical system. Other hooks allow the designer to gather data and change parameters all in real-time without ever writing low level code. It works great, and allows us to focus on the concepts without getting lost in implementation issues. That's only the start of what we have planned, and for the real details you can read the course description page.
Labs
Download Lab #0, assigned 9/9.
Instructors
Professor David Trumper, trumper@mit.edu
David Trumper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. His research is primarily in Precision Machine Design and Magnetic Suspensions. His other interests are in design and control of Electromechanical systems, Analog Circuit Design, Analog and Digital Signal Processing.
Steve Ludwick, sjludwic@mit.edu
Steve Ludwick is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and is the teaching assistant for the course. His research interests are in the fields of precision machine tool design and control.
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