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Mechatronics is the engineering discipline concerned with the construction of systems incorporating mechanical, electronical and information technology components. The word mechatronics as a blend of mechanics and electronics has already been invented 40 years ago by a Japanese company. Then, mechatronics just meant complementing mechanical parts with some electronical units, a typical example being a photo camera. Today, mechatronics is an area combining a large number of advanced techniques from engineering, in particular sensor and actuator technology, with computer science methods.
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Schäfer, W. (2011). Building Advanced Mechatronic Systems. In: France, R.B., Kuester, J.M., Bordbar, B., Paige, R.F. (eds) Modelling Foundations and Applications. ECMFA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6698. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21470-7_1
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