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The disparate technologies in today’s testing environment means many engineers are working at the edge of their knowledge. This is no criticism, more an acknowledgement that the skills that were learned during formal training have been superseded by the relentless progress of technology.
The boundary between mechanical, electrical and control technologies have become so blurred as to be indistinguishable. How does one address the gaps? Continuous Professional Development helps to keep up and in the long term training can fill the gap. But what happens when a specific project requires integration skills that are not immediately locally available?
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A current project involves the creation of a £2M mechanical testing facility. The consultants’ role being to understand the specific test requirements and interpret those requirements into a specification clearly understood by the OEM. The OEM will produce their response to the specification and the consultant then helps to shape the design process, ultimately taking independent management responsibility for design reviews, progress, Factory and Plant Acceptance Testing, delivery, installation and commissioning.
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AR interface in intelligent systems by Lucy
The paper deals with technical applications of Augmented Reality (AR) technology. The discussion starts with the conception of AR. Further on, three applications connected with different stages of existence of a technical means (machinery or equipment) are presented. They address design process, maintenance and diagnostics of different objects. Finally, further research is outlined.
This paper presents possible applications of oncoming technology called augmented reality (AR). It rises from the well-known Virtual Reality (VR). It can be said that the first AR systems were those applying HeadUp performing some task by the user in the real world. This goal is achieved by providing additional, hands-on pieces of information carried through several information channels, by different forms of messages.
Selection of the specific information channel and, additionally, the form of message delivered to the user, can be an additional task of optimization. The research on applications of AR in mechanical engineering has been carried out in the Department since 2004. Before that, AR applications were implemented for training the personnel, and for supporting human installers by assembling mechanical systems. The authors report concisely their own research works.
The first application of AR system concerns the possibilities of aiding the user in the design process. The second one is the implementation of the portable AR system in maintenance/diagnostics of a system of mechatronic devices. Finally, the AR system for reasoning in Nowadays expert systems and other intelligent, knowledge-based applications are widely used to aid human personnel in carrying out complex tasks. The user communicates with the running program by means of a user interface. AR technology allows creating highly user-friendly interface solved, accessible in the very comfortable and easy-to-adopt form. Pieces of information can be delivered to the user in an automated way, since the AR-based system is able to catch or even recognize which problem the user is going to solve and which piece of information is the most relevant to this problem.
AR systems base mainly on graphical (virtual) information partially covering view of the real world. The role of the virtual object is to present the user some information to facilitate his/her tasks. But AR interface can deliver not only visual information seen by the user. AR employs also many other user input/output information channels [3]. Besides visual information, the user can be influenced by other output interfaces such as haptic devices, acoustic or motion systems. As the input interfaces are considered tracking systems, image acquisition systems and input devices (data gloves, 3D controllers - mice, trackballs, joysticks). Input interfaces are sources of data for intelligent systems.
Tracking systems provide information about position/orientation of some objects (e.g. human limbs). Image acquisition systems are used for registering view of the real world seen by the user. Thanks to the input devices the communication between the system and the user becomes more interactive.
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Frequently Asked Questions...
What is really mechatronic engineer... is it mechanical engineer but it is specialized mechatronics?
and what university does mechatronics.... please explain in detail
Answer:
Not quite. Mechatronics is the integration of mechanical, electrical and computer. Mechanical has the most weight, but you still do a fair amount of electrical engineering and a little computer. Typical courses include the traditional mechanical ones, but also you take courses on sensors/actuators, electric circuits, digital logic etc. You can take mechanical and specialize in mechatronics in many schools. The best example I can think of a truly Mechatronic system is a robot. A robot combines a lot of mechanical work, some electrical and of course a lot of computer/programming. Other examples are car braking systems (ABS), smart appliances, etc. There is also biomechtatronics which deals with things like prostestics and power exoskeletons. In Canada the only universities that offer undergrad degrees are University of Waterloo and Simon Fraser University.
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