TC 4.2. Mechatronic Systems

Welcome to Mechatronic Systems

 Welcome to the homepage of IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems. This technical committee is relatively new, but it is growing at a rapid pace in response to the increasing needs to design and construct/manufacture engineering systems and industrial products that are becoming more and more complex.  Needless to say but the design and construction must be time efficient and resulting products must be competitive in terms of cost, performance, size, and so on.  You will find in the following section “Scope” what is meant by mechatronics, but mechatronics responds to the needs described above.  Furthermore, “mechatronics in the control community” emphasizes how we may best and synergistically utilize advanced control, sensing and actuation methodologies in various application areas such as robotics and automation, motion control, automotive systems, biomedical systems and information storage systems.  Many members of our technical committee work on both the control theoretic end and the application end. Our committee also serves as an important interface between control theory developers and control practitioners.  If you are interested in letting various control methodologies actively pursued in the IFAC community make impacts on the engineering systems and industrial products, please join activities organized by Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems.  We organize sessions at the IFAC Congress and host the IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems. I look forward to meeting you at these events.

Masayoshi Tomizuka

Chair

TC 4.2 Mechatronic Systems