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    Welcome to Mechatronic Machine Design course!

    Preliminary exam is open (as of 30.11.2022). The DL is on the 2nd week of the course.

    The course includes preliminary exam, lectures, weekly exercises, laboratory exercises and a project work. The course has no final exam. The final grade consists of the combined points from the lecture quizzes, exercises, labs and project work. It is good if you have completed Mechatronics Basics before enrolling on this Mechatronic Machine Design course. Passing Mechatronic Machine Design is not required before enrolling in Vehicle Mechatronics: Control and Vehicle Mechatronics: Powertrain courses, but Mechatronic Machine Design course is likely to help in further studies.

    The exercises can be found on A+ platform: https://plus.cs.aalto.fi/mec-e5001/2023spring/

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    • Weekly activities

      Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
      Independent work Deadline for last week's exercise, 9:00
      		 Exercise help in K1/148, 9:15-11:00
      		 Independent work
      		Independent work

      		Lecture in K1/216, 9:15-11:00

      Lecture quiz





      Course content and schedule

      Wk

      Lecture

      Exercise

      Other

      1

      		 
      Introduction to the course

      Background of mechatronics

      Mechatronic design process

      Learning / re-cap of Matlab
      2
      		 
      Dynamic systems
      Frequency and time domain analysis

      Laplace transform, Transfer function, Impulse and step responses, Basics of dynamic models

      Preliminary exam deadline

      Release of project work

      3

      		 
      Electronics and control

      Operational amplifier circuits, AD & DA conversion, Bode diagram

       

      4

      		 
      Common control topologies
      PID controller
      Control applications

      Common control topologies, PID controller, Control applications

      Project work startup submission deadline Sun 5th February

      5

      		 

      Preparing for project work

      Mechatronic system simulation


      6

      		 

      Project work wrap up /gala
      Summary of the course, Students’ reflections: what we learnt, Mutual feedback

       No exercises

      -

      7

      No exercises

      Project work deadline Sun 26th February

      Course completed
      2% points for official course feedback


      Grading
      More detailed version of the grading, workload estimations etc. can be found in weboodi. To pass the course, 50% of the points is required from all the categories listed below.

      - Preliminary exam: pass/fail
      - Grade from lecture quiz: weight 20 %, scale 1...5, 50 % of the points required to pass: Weekly feedback is included in this category.
      - Grade from exercises including lab exercises: weight 50 %, scale 1...5, 50 % of the points required to pass
      - Grade from project work: weight 30 %, scale 1...5, 50 % of the points required to pass

      Provided that the preliminary exam and the minimum requirements above have been passed, the grading of the course will be the following:
      -  50 % of the total points: grade 1,
      -  60 %: grade 2
      -  70 %: grade 3
      -  83 %: grade 4, and
      -  93 %: grade 5.

      Disclaimer: These limits are set in stone and there are no extra assignments to increase your points after submitting your course assignments (such as quizzes, exercises, project work). Furthermore, do not trust the total points shown to you by MyCourses, as it is displaying often the wrong number until the end of the course and after teacher's have double-checked all submissions.
      Deadlines
      The preliminary exam will be a multiple choice exam during the 2nd week of the course.
      The lecture quiz deadlines are during the same day with the corresponding lecture. Everyone has the right to answer lecture quiz. Answering the lecture quiz is likely to be easier if you have attended the lectures.
      The exercises will be due before the next lecture.
      The project work will be due by the end of the sixth week.

      Course staff and appointments
      Responsible teacher: Prof. Kari Tammi
      Assistants: Postdoctoral researcher Riku Ala-Laurinaho, doctoral researcher Chao Yang
      The course staff can be met after lectures. Please, fix the appointment beforehand.

    • Recommended Mechatronics courses Folder

      If you want to know what courses you should be taking before or after this course, check out this list of recommended courses for mechatronics engineers.