Zhang, H. H. H. (2018, April), Virtual Prototyping for Mechatronics  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference, Washington, District of Columbia. 10.18260/1-2--29501

\bibitem{asee_peer_29501}
  Zhang, H. H. H. (2018, April), \emph{Virtual Prototyping for Mechatronics}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference, Washington, District of Columbia.
  10.18260/1-2--29501

Haiyan (Henry) H Zhang.  "Virtual Prototyping for Mechatronics".  2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference, Washington, District of Columbia, 2018, April.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/29501 Internet.  16 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_29501}
  Haiyan (Henry) H Zhang.
  "Virtual Prototyping for Mechatronics".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference, Washington, District of Columbia, 2018, April}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/29501 Internet.  16 Jul, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The major difference between the 20th century industrial products and the 21st century industrial products lays in that the latter are multidisciplinary mechatronic machines/devices. Global market demands and economic turbulence have driven companies to seek innovative ways to reduce costs in developing the multidisciplinary products. Therefore, the primary goal of this research is to show the validity of virtual prototyping, within the realm of mechatronics, as a means to reduce costs in the development phase of product design. 
The modern industrial product is often a hybrid of mechanical, electrical, sensing and embedded engineerings, and this mixture is correlated with the mechatronics. The high level of multidisciplinary interaction makes it strenuous for cross-engineering association in mechatronics’ design.
In this paper, two industrial grade softwares, i.e., Dassault Systems’ SolidWorks and National Instruments’ LabVIEW, are employed in the development and deployment phases of mechatronics engineering design. For physical modeling and analysis of geometric components, SolidWorks is the CAD software chosen to serve these purposes, while for control logic/laws realization and data acquisition, LabVIEW is used as the graphical programming language. The bridging link between these two programs, the so-called SoftMotion module, has been developed by National Instruments to function as the communication between them. This research aims to explore the capability of SolidWorks-SoftMotion-Labview integration for virtual prototyping of fully functional mechatronic products via developing, analyzing and virtually co-simulation. 
The researcher will develop and analyze a virtual prototype of an intelligent product vending device. The features of this device include user selected product acquisition, real time inventory tracking, and self-regulated product organization.

AU  - Haiyan (Henry) H Zhang
CY  - Washington, District of Columbia
DA  - 2018/04/06
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Virtual Prototyping for Mechatronics
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/29501
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--29501
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