Video Demonstrations - Introduction to Mechatronics and Measurement Systems

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The video clips below illustrate various mechatronics and measurement system principles and devices described in the book.

Chapter 1 – Introduction to Mechatronics and Measurement Systems

1.1 – Adept One robot demonstration
1.2 – Adept One robot internal design and construction
1.3 – Honda Asimo Raleigh, NC demonstration
1.4 – Sony “Qrio” Japanese dance demo
1.5 – Inkjet printer components with DC motors and piezoelectric inkjet head
1.6 – DC motor power-op-amp speed controller
1.7 – Stepper motor position and speed controller
1.8 – DC motor position and speed controller

Chapter 2 – Electric Circuits and Components

2.1 – A simple guide to electronic components
2.2 – Resistors
2.3 – Electronics components of various types and sizes
2.4 – Capacitors
2.5 – Breadboard construction
2.6 – Instrumentation for powering and making measurements in circuits
2.7 – Light bulb series and parallel circuit comparison
2.8 – Connectors (BNC, banana plugs, alligator clips)
2.9 – Oscilloscope demonstrations using the Tektronix 2215 analog scope
2.10 – MathCad analysis software demo
2.11 – Power transformer with laminated core
2.12 – Breadboard construction
2.13 – Breadboard advice and rules of thumb
2.14 – Current measurement and checking continuity
2.15 – How and why to solder correctly
2.16 – Human circuit toy ball
2.17 – Squirrel zapped by power lines
2.18 – Stupid man zapped by power lines
2.19 – It’s not the volts that kill you, it’s the amps

Chapter 3 – Semiconductor Electronics

3.1 – How does a transistor work?
3.2 – Diodes
3.3 – Transistor, How does it work?
3.4 – Transistor (BJT) as a Switch
3.5 – Turning a motor on and off with a transistor
3.6 – Transistors

Chapter 4 – System Response

4.1 – Sine-wave, saw-tooth-wave, and square-wave signal spectra
4.2 – Spectra of whistling and humming, and amplifier saturation
4.3 – Bugle tone amplitude, frequency, and spectra
4.4 – Guitar harmonics and chords
4.5 – Piano harmonics and tone spectra
4.6 – Piano keyboard harmonics and chords
4.7 – Tuning fork waveform analysis
4.8 – Mechanical computer harmonic analyzer
4.9 – Filter (RC circuit) frequency response
4.10 – RC circuit charging and discharging
4.11 – Spring-mass second order system frequency response
4.12 – Pendulum second order system frequency response
4.13 – Torsional system frequency response and control
4.14 – Tacoma Narrows bridge failure (1940, Puget Sound, Washington)

Chapter 5 – Analog Signal Processing Using Operational Amplifiers

5.1 – Integrated circuits
5.2 – Integrated circuit manufacturing process stages
5.3 – Chip manufacturing process (another)
5.4 – How a CPU is made
5.5 – Guitar harmonic feedback demonstration
5.6 – Jimi Hendrix … the master of feedback
5.7 – Op amp integrator circuit at different frequencies

Chapter 6 – Digital Circuits

6.1 – Binary counting machine using marbles and wood toggle switches
6.2 – Switch bounce
6.3 – High voltage disconnect switch
6.4 – Decade counter and display circuit driven by a 555 timer
6.5 – Schmitt trigger

Chapter 7 – Microcontroller Programming and Interfacing

7.1 – Potentiometer input and binary display
7.2 – Hexadecimal counter using a 555 timer and data flip-flops for switch debounce
7.3 – Hexadecimal counter with software debounce
7.4 – You can learn Arduino in 15 minutes
7.5 – Pulse-width modulation speed control of a DC motor, with keypad input
7.6 – LCD display
7.7 – PIC A/D conversion, serial communication, and LCD output
7.8 – How to make an LM386 audio amplifier circuit
7.9 – BeerBot – secure liquid dispensing system
7.10 – Switch mode power supply tutorial: DC-DC buck converters
7.11 – Buck converter vs. linear voltage regulator – practical comparison

Chapter 8 – Data Acquisition

8.1 – Sampling rate, Nyquist rate, and aliasing
8.2 – Tuning fork super-slow-motion video aliasing
8.3 – Beat frequency from mixing signals of similar frequency
8.4 – Data acquisition experiment
8.5 – LabVIEW data acquisition and music sampling
8.6 – Sampling rate and its effect on sound and music (audio only)
8.7 – Music sampling rate and resolution effects
8.8 – National Instruments DC motor demo
8.9 – National Instruments LabVIEW DC motor controller design
8.10 – NI ELVIS Laboratory Platform and Virtual Instrumentation

Chapter 9 – Sensors

9.1 – Magnetic pickup tachometer used in a PID speed controller test-stand
9.2 – Automated laboratory rat exercise machine with IR sensor and stepper motor
9.3 – Switches
9.4 – Voice coil
9.4 – Thermostat with bimetallic strip and mercury switch
9.5 – Magnetostrictive position sensor
9.6 – Encoder components
9.7 – Computer mouse relative encoder
9.8 – Adept robot digital encoder components
9.9 – Strain gage rosette experiment
9.10 – Strain gage rosette experiment analysis discussion
9.11 – Thermocouple with a digital thermometer
9.12 – Bouncing ball accelerometer
9.13 – Accelerometer bearing signature analysis experiment

Chapter 10 – Actuators

10.1 – Magic piano
10.2 – Automated melodica
10.3 – LED fountain system
10.4 – Relay and transistor switching circuit comparison
10.5 – Computer hard-drive with voice coil
10.6 – Computer hard-drive track seeking demonstration
10.7 – Computer hard-drive super-slow-motion video of track finding
10.8 – AC induction motor (single phase)
10.9 – AC induction motor with a soft start for a water pump
10.10 – AC induction motor variable frequency drive for a building air handler unit
10.11 – How induction motors work
10.12 – DC motor components
10.13 – Brushless DC motor from a computer fan
10.14 – Brushless DC motor gear pump
10.15 – How brushless motors work
10.16 – DC and stepper motor examples
10.17 – How universal motors work
10 18 – How DC motors work
10.19 – Multifunction slot machine
10.20 – Stepper motor step response and acceleration through resonance
10.21 – High-speed video of medium speed response
10.22 – Stepper Motors and how to use them
10.23 – Servos and how to use them
10.24 – Servomotor system
10.25 – Sign language machine
10.26 – Automatic sensing prosthetic
10.27 – Gear pumps
10.28 – Hydraulic gear pumps
10.29 – Pilot valve hydraulic amplifier cut-away
10.30 – Pneumatic cylinders of various types and sizes
10.31 – Pneumatic biomechanics exercise apparatus overview
10.32 – Overview of pneumatic system components and applications

Chapter 11 – Mechatronic Systems — Control Architectures and Case Studies

11.1 – Table tennis assistant controlled by an FPGA
11.2 – Programmable logic controller (PLC) with ladder logic
11.3 – PLC infant formula machine
11.4 – PID control of the step response of a mechanical system
11.5 – Inverted pendulum up-righting and balancing with linear cart motion
11.6 – Robot controlled by an EMG biosignal

Appendix A – Measurement Fundamentals

A.1 – How we’re redefining the kg

Appendix B – Physical Principles

B.1 – Flow over a cylinder in a wind tunnel
B.2 – Magnetostrictive position sensor
B.3 – Shape-memory alloy orthodontic wire

Appendix C – Mechanics of Materials

C.1 – Mohr’s Circle for uniaxial stress
C.2 – Failure theories for brittle and ductile materials

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