Concepts in Mechatronics Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Concepts in Mechatronics Engineering (subject code 3714701) as prescribed for M · Semester 1 divides the course into 8 units, covering 32 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3714701)Unit 1 ELECTRICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM
- Electrical Switches
- DC motors
- AC motors
- stepper motors and servo motors
Unit 2 BASICS OF ELECTRONICS
- Conductors and Semiconductors
- Silicon Crystal
- Intrinsic Semiconductors
- Extrinsic Semiconductors
- Ideal diode
- Reading a datasheet
Unit 3 SOLID-STATE ELECTRONIC DEVICES
- operating mechanism and characteristics of PN Junction Diode
- Thyristor (SCR)
- DIAC and TRIAC
- Half Wave and Full Wave rectifiers and Converters
Unit 4 ELECTRIC DRIVES
- Parts of electrical drives
- Motor Characteristics and equations
- Converter and chopper based drives
Unit 5 MECHANISMS
- kinematic pair
- DOF of mechanisms
- inversion of mechanism
- mechanisms with lower pair
Unit 6 MOTION TRANSMISSION
- Introduction to belt drives
- cams and followers
Unit 7 DESIGN OF MACHINE ELEMENTS
- Material selection
- stress strain relationship
- factor of safety
- types of stresses
- principle stresses, and consideration for fatigue failure
Unit 8 MECHANICAL VIBRATION FOR SINGLE DEGREE OF
- FREEDOM SYSTEM Introduction of vibrations : free vibration
- damped vibration
- forced vibration
- torsional vibration