A Framework for Integrated Design of Mechatronic Systems

Mechatronic systems encompass a wide range of disciplines and hence are collaborative in nature. Currently, the collaborative development of mechatronic systems is inefficient and error-prone because contemporary design environments do not allow sufficient flow of design and manufacturing information across electrical and mechanical domains. Mechatronic systems need to be designed in an integrated fashion allowing designers from both electrical and mechanical engineering domains to receive automated feedback regarding design modifications throughout the design process. Integrated design of mechatronic systems can be facilitated through the integration of mechanical and electrical computer-aided design (CAD) systems. One approach to achieve such integration is through the propagation of constraints. Cross-disciplinary constraints between mechanical and electrical design domains can be classified, represented, modelled, and bi-directionally propagated in order to provide automated feedback to designers of both engineering domains. In this chapter, the authors focus on constraint classification and constraint modelling and provide an example by means of a robot arm. The constraint modelling approach serves as a preliminary concept for the implementation of constraint propagation between mechanical and electrical CAD systems.

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