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6 Mechatronic Components

FIG. 1 Energy harvester from river flow.

Considering that there are mechanical, electrical, and computer scientists as
well as people from other engineering fields working on mechatronic design
projects, it is not quite common for the mechanical engineers to know much
about communication protocols such as I2C, or for the electrical engineers to
know the different types of three-dimensional (3D) printer materials. This book
aims to guide engineers to find different possibilities for their problems.
The user of course should learn the details of the systems, such as the working
principle of I2C communication protocol, but this book explains the concepts
from the point of view of the system requirements.
As the reviewers of this book stated, the audience of this project are defi-
nitely professional engineers, who sometimes need a reference handbook to
quickly find some properties of the listed components.

“Mechatronics is an active and growing field. As the research and the technology
advance, there are stronger and stronger requirements to attain better and better
design process and performance. This can only be achieved through a complica-
tion of the system and a better exploitation of its different components, intended as
integrated parts of the whole. This evolution generates needs for specific design
tools. This book enters this phase of the process, by providing the technological
and scientific community with a novel, rationale tool.”

“Mechatronics is one among the multidisciplinary branch of learning that is gain-
ing more and more space within the current scientific community. Intended as the
combination of mechanics and electronics, including control systems and other
related features, it is a huge domain that can be assumed to integrate other emerg-
ing fields like adaptive structures and robotics. The complexity of those subjects is
the integration of different knowledge, coming from very different experiences.