Title :
Mechatronics at the University of Twente
Author :
Van Amerongen, Job ; Koster, Rien
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Twente Univ., Enschede, Netherlands
Abstract :
This paper describes some of the mechatronics activities at the University of Twente. In 1989, the founding of the Mechatronics Research Center Twente started a cooperation of the departments of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. The mechatronics activities get especially attention in projects in the Ph.D. programme and in the `mechatronic designer´ program, but Msc. students participate as well. As an illustration of the philosophy behind the work at the University of Twente and of the activities carried out so far, the paper describes two projects of the institute: the MART (Mobile Autonomous Robot Twente) project and the ALASCA (Automated Laser Aided Servo Controlled Assembly) project
Keywords :
assembling; electrical engineering; factory automation; industrial manipulators; mechanical engineering; mechatronics; mobile robots; project engineering; ALASCA project; MART project; Mechatronics Research Center Twente; University of Twente; autonomous mobile robot; industrial manipulators; mechatronics; postgraduate project; servo controlled assembly; Automatic control; Computer science; Mathematics; Mechanical engineering; Mechatronics; Mobile robots; Optical control; Robotic assembly; Robotics and automation; Servomechanisms;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3832-4
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.1997.612002
