Mechatronics, Industrial Product Design
Mekatronik, industriell produktframtagning

EIEN01F, 10 credits

Valid from: Spring 2022
Decided by: Professor Thomas Johansson
Date of establishment: 2021-12-01

General Information

Division: Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation
Course type: Course given jointly for second and third cycle
The course is also given at second-cycle level with course code: EIEN01
Teaching languages: English, Swedish

Aim

The course aims at giving the student knowledge, skills and experience from taking part in an industrially based mechatronic development project, which is conducted up to a working prototype. The principal design of the product has been formed in the course EIEN45 Applied Mechatronics. It is essential that the work is done in a team with competences from various fields.

Goals

Knowledge and Understanding

For a passing grade the doctoral student must

• analyze the various parts in a product specification and freely define and evaluate a number of solution concepts according to the principles of product development,
• identify the best solution concept according to selection criteria
• identify constructive components in the given product concept with adequate electronic, mechanical, thermal, and magnetic characteristics,
• define production methods for the selected construction materials,
• describe the principles for real time programming and communication for the integrated control system in the product concept and calculate its data,
• calculate the data for the control electronics and the power electronic and electromagnetic energy converters of the product.

Competences and Skills

For a passing grade the doctoral student must

• use applicable methods for product development in a mechatronic team,
• make a specification for suitable materials, production methods, control electronics, and the power electronic and electromagnetic energy converters of a certain product,
• implement a mechatronic concept all the way to a working prototype for industrial application,
• test and evaluate the prototype.

Judgement and Approach

For a passing grade the doctoral student must

• be able to work and cooperate with all relevant competences represented in a mechatronic team
• have the understanding and judgment to respect and demand all the various competences that are necessary for mechatronic constructive design.

Course Contents

The project is done during two study periods. The course participants should develop the mechatronic parts of those projects or other purely mechatronic products. The development process starts with extensive information search, brain storming, and evaluation, activities which often encompass 30-40% of the total work load. This has been done in the course EIEF01 Applied Mechatronics. Then follows in this course selection of concept, constructive design of the product idea, ordering of components, building, testing, and adjustments. The course concludes with the official presentation of the designed products, where representatives from industry, course leaders, and the press take part.

Course Literature

Bradley, D., Seward, D., Dawson, D. & Burge, S.: Mechatronics and the Design of Intelligent Machines and Systems. CRC Press, 2000. ISBN 9780748754434.

Instruction Details

Type of instruction: Project

Examination Details

Examination formats: Written report, seminars given by participants
Grading scale: Failed, pass
Examiner:

Admission Details

Assumed prior knowledge: EIEN45 Applied Mechatronics

Course Occasion Information

Contact and Other Information

Course coordinator: Gunnar Lindstedt <gunnar.lindstedt@iea.lth.se>
Web page: https://www.iea.lth.se/mekpf/