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Mechatronics: Part I - Lowering the Cost of Machine Design
Getting Started with NI Tools for Mechatronics Applications

Download this mechatronics resource kit to learn how you can use NI tools to integrate mechanical design, control design, simulation, sensing and actuation, signal processing, and electronic design.

Download the Mechatronics Resource Kit



Kit Contents


  • Mechatronics Reference Architecture

    • Mechatronics is a system-level approach to designing electromechanical systems that merges mechanical, electrical, control, and embedded software design. It represents an industry-wide effort to improve the design process by integrating the best available development practices and technologies to streamline machine design, prototyping, and deployment.

  • Virtual Machine Prototyping Made Easy with LabVIEW and SolidWorks Webcast

    • New state of the art mechatronics design tools from NI and SolidWorks are bringing the electrical and mechanical worlds together to make simulation easier. If you have a 3D CAD model and a motor data sheet, you could be simulating the mechanical, electrical and control system performance of your machine in minutes.

  • Embedded System Design for Machine Control White Paper

    • Streamline the machine control development process with a single, open graphical programming environment and flexible, reconfigurable hardware to build systems with advanced control, communication, data logging, signal processing, motion, and vision.

  • Accelerate Machine Design with SolidWorks/COSMOSMotion and LabVIEW/NI SoftMotion

    • Learn how you can use NI LabVIEW to integrate electrical and mechanical simulation through leading mechanical tools such as SolidWorks.

  • Control Prototyping with LabVIEW for Haptic and Telerobotic Systems Webcast

    • Hear how Georgia Tech has used LabVIEW for control prototyping in haptics and telerobotics applications such as electronic steering, space exploration, surgical training, and computer-aided design.

  • Human Transporter: A Mechatronic System Design Case Study

    • See an exciting mechatronics application for which Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) students designed and built a two-wheeled human/object transporter.

  • Interactive Motor Control Online Demonstration

    • Explore a FREE Web-based hands-on tutorial using real hardware to learn embedded system design fundamentals with graphical programming, FPGAs, real-time operating systems, industrial I/O, and high-speed motor control.

  • Integrating 3D Mechanical Design and Analysis with Physical Testing White Paper

    • Learn how to integrate simulated results with physical measurements for a faster, iterative design process.

  • National Instruments Mechatronics Microsite

    • NI is proud to be a technology provider for mechatronics-based design - an industry-wide, multivendor effort to improve electromechanical design by integrating the best available development design automation practices and technologies. Visit this microsite to explore our platform of open, flexible software and hardware tools.

    Download the Mechatronics Resources Kit

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