Introduction

Abstract

The progress and the miniaturization we have seen in electronics during the last decades have allowed engineers to come up with new products and new engineering disciplines. Early in the eighteens we have seen the introduction of new products that combines mechanical parts with electronics parts. Another factor that gives a booming to mechatronics applications is the continuously decreasing prices of the electronic parts and the challenges to design very small systems. Today, for instance microprocessors with high performances are becoming very cheap which encourages their uses in computer controlled systems.