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Mastering the art of mechatronics' currently looks like one of the most attractive tasks of modern engineering technology and science. Many applications resort to the interdisciplinary approach of mechatronics to enhance the performance, quality and safety of either product or process. Some are very traditional (like hard disk drives, biomedical, automotive and aerospace systems) while others are fairly new (like micro and nano electromechanical systems, unmanned air vehicles, intelligent machining, manufacturing systems or bioinspired devices). This book describe some practical examples, which demonstrate how different competences, disciplines and technologies meet in an innovative mechatronic system. They deal with several domains like the hard disk drive technology, biomedical prostheses, fluidic automation, UAV Vision System, vibration monitoring and suppression in steelmaking plants, materials machining and smart composites. These examples will show the reader, who is still looking for the real meaning of mechatronics, how some innovative technologies allow implementing a sort of artificial intelligence in several systems currently produced. Examples describe neural network positioning control, chaos prevention, myoelectric stimulation of prosthesis, human detection by vision system, multi-physics modeling and control of dynamics. Some topics are related to small scale, as in the case of a finger of a biotronic hand. Nevertheless, the same approach is applied even to huge machines, like the electric arc furnace. It is worth noticing that the authors resorted even to the additive manufacturing, as in prototyping bio-prostheses, or to fiber optics embedded into composite structures. Those technologies allow reducing cost, weight or volume of product. In some cases, the mechatronic approach improves the quality and the accuracy of some material processing, like in rolling or in turning against the risk of selfexcited chatter vibration. The examples described in this book cover a wide range of mechatronic applications

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Eugenio Brusa was born in Torino (Italy) on 1969. He graduated Aeronautical Engineer (M.Sc.) at Politecnico di Torino (1993) then Ph.D. on Machine Design (1997). Since 1998 until 2001 he was Assistant professor of Machine Design at Dept. Mechanics of the Politecnico di Torino, being head of Laboratory of Rotor Spinning Test. Since 2002 until 2008 he was with the University of Udine (Italy), at Dept. Electrical, Management and Mechanical Engineering, being Associate Professor of Machine Design and leader of the Mechanical and Mechatronic Section of Laboratory for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Technologies. He was there also Technical Director of the Master in Project Management and Systems Engineering. On November 2008 he came back to Politecnico di Torino, where he appointed full professor on 2010 (being enrolled in this role with the turnover 2013). He currently belongs the Laboratory of Microsystems design and characterization and the Laboratory of Railways systems dynamics and construction, within the same Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is responsible of the Partnership between Politecnico di Torino and Danieli (steelmaking plants and industrial equipments) and leader of the research unit on Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) applied to industrial systems. He is author of more than 150 scientific papers, some contributions to books within Structural Mechatronics, Micromechatronics and MEMS, and of some patents.

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