Control Basics for Mechatronics

About the author

As a Cambridge Mathematics Scholar, John completed the mathematics tripos in two years, then spent his third year studying electronics. Following a Graduate Apprenticeship, he designed algorithms and electronics for aircraft control systems. He then returned to Cambridge to complete his doctoral research on Predictive Control.
He remained in Cambridge as a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. Eight years later he moved to a Readership at Portsmouth Polytechnic, now Portsmouth University and later became Professor of Robotics. He led groups researching the ‘Craftsman Robot’ and walking robots. He helped found companies designing embedded electronics for domestic appliances and nuclear test equipment.
In1992 John moved to Toowoomba, Australia, where he applied machine vision to precision tractor guidance. He co-founded the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture of the University of Southern Queensland.
This year he was joint organiser of the twenty-sixth annual conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, a series which he inaugurated in 1994.

Summary

Mechatronics is a mongrel, a crossbreed of classic mechanical engineering, the relatively young pup of computer science, the energetic electrical engineering, the pedigree mathematics and the bloodhound of Control Theory.

Product details

• Authors: John Billingsley, Billingsley John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032425573
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3242557-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electrical, Mathematical theory of computation, Mathematical modelling, Automatic control engineering, Energy, power generation, distribution and storage, Power generation & distribution