Mechatronics is a set of mechanical, electronic, optical, control, computer, information and other multidisciplinary cross-comprehensive, its development and progress depends on and promotes the development and progress of related technologies. Therefore, the main development direction of mechatronics is as follows:
Intelligence
Intelligence is an important development direction of mechatronics technology development in the 21st century. Artificial intelligence in mechatronics builder's research is increasingly being emphasized, robotics and CNC machine tool intelligence is an important application. Intelligent" is a description of the behavior of the machine, is based on control theory, absorbing artificial intelligence, operations research, computer science, fuzzy mathematics, psychology, physiology and chaotic dynamics and other new ideas, new methods, simulating human intelligence, so that it has the ability to judge the reasoning, logical thinking, autonomous decision-making, etc., in order to get a higher control goal. get higher control objectives. Admittedly, it is impossible and unnecessary to make mechatronics products have the exact same intelligence as human beings. However, high-performance, high-speed 'microprocessor so that mechatronics products endowed with low-level intelligence or part of the human intelligence, it is entirely possible and necessary.
Modularity
Modularity is an important and difficult project. As a result of mechatronics product categories and manufacturers, research and development with standard mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, power interfaces, environmental interfaces, mechatronics product unit is a very complex but very important thing. For example, the development of a set of deceleration, intelligent speed control, motor in one of the power unit, with vision, image processing, recognition and distance measurement and other functions of the control unit, as well as a variety of mechanical devices that can complete the typical operation. In this way, new products can be rapidly developed using standard units, and the scale of production can also be expanded. This requires the development of standards for the matching and interfacing of components and units. Due to conflicts of interest, it is difficult to develop international or domestic standards in this area, but they can be formed gradually through the formation of a number of large enterprises. Obviously, from the standardization of electrical products, the benefits of serialization can be sure, both for the production of standard mechatronics unit of the enterprise or for the production of mechatronics products, the scale will give mechatronics enterprises to bring a better future.
Networking
In the 1990s, computer technology and other outstanding achievements is network technology. The rise and rapid development of network technology to science and technology, industrial production, politics, military, education and people's daily lives have brought great changes. Various networks will be the global economy, production connected, competition between enterprises will also be globalized. Once a new mechatronics product is developed, as long as its function is unique and its quality is reliable, it will soon be sold all over the world. Due to the popularization of the network, a variety of network-based remote control and monitoring technology in the ascendant, and remote control of the terminal equipment itself is mechatronics products. Fieldbus and LAN technology is home appliances network has become a trend, the use of home networks (homenet) will be connected to a variety of home appliances into a computer-centered computer integrated home appliance system (computerintegratedappliancesystem, CIAS), so that people at home to share a variety of high technology to bring convenience and happiness. Therefore, mechatronics products are undoubtedly developing in the direction of networking.
Miniaturization
Miniaturization emerged in the late 1980s, referring to the trend of mechatronics to the development of micro-machines and microscopic areas. Foreign countries call it micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), referring to the geometric size of not more than 1cm3 mechatronics products, and to the development of micron and nanometer level. Microelectromechanical integration products are small in size, low in energy consumption, flexible in movement, and have incomparable advantages in biomedical, military, information and other aspects. The bottleneck in the development of micro-electromechanical integration is the micro-mechanical technology, micro-electromechanical integration products are processed using fine processing technology, that is, ultra-precision technology, which includes photolithography and etching technology of two types.
Greening
The development of industry has brought great changes to people's lives. On the one hand, material abundance, comfortable life; on the other hand, the resources are reduced, the ecological environment is seriously polluted. Thus, people call for the protection of environmental resources and return to nature. The concept of green products came into being under this call, and greening is the trend of the times. Green products in their design, manufacture, use and destruction of the life process, in line with specific environmental protection and human health requirements, harmless to the ecological environment or very little harm, resource utilization rate is very high. Designing green mechatronics products has a far-reaching future. The greening of mechatronics products mainly refers to the fact that they do not pollute the ecological environment when in use, and can be recycled after being scrapped.
Systematization
One of the performance characteristics of systematization is that the system architecture further adopts the open and patterned bus structure. The system can be flexibly configured for any cut and combination, while seeking to achieve multi-subsystem coordinated control and integrated management. Performance of the second is the communication function is greatly strengthened, generally in addition to RS232, and RS485, DCS personification. The future of mechatronics pay more attention to the relationship between products and people, mechatronics personification has two layers of meaning. One layer is that the ultimate use of mechatronics products are people, how to give mechatronics products human intelligence, emotion, human nature is becoming more and more important, especially for household robots, its high-level realm is human-machine integration. Another layer is to imitate the biological mechanism (i.e. bionics), the development of a variety of mechatronic products. In fact, many mechatronic products are developed by the inspiration of animals.