Mechatronics Laboratory

The Mechatronics Laboratory is designed to teach senior mechanical engineering students to build basic analog and digital circuits; develop an understanding for use of analog to digital and digital to analog conversion, actuators (servo and stepper motors) and sensors. Additionally, students learn to program a microcontroller and interface it with various actuator and sensor elements necessary to build a working robot.

Key Equipment

Key Capabilities

• Acquire data from external analog signal and convert to digital signal to control mechanical systems
• Acquire, filter and process human body signals for use in controlling a prosthetic hand
• Program micro-controller, utilizing high-level language to acquire signal from sensor, process it and send to servo motors to control robotic car
• Build simple and complex circuits to filter, digitize and convert signals