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Billingsley, John was born on August 14, 1939 in Cheltenham, England. Son of Wilfred Richard and Agnes Aldington (Green) Billingsley. arrived in Australia, 1992.
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Presents advances in mechatronics and machine vision which have culminated in practical applications or which promise implementation in the near future. Major topics include mobile robots - legged, wheeled and underwater, with aspects of their guidance, navigation and intelligent control, and sensors - tactile, acoustic, vision and GPS, with applications in manufacturing quality control and navigation. New magnetic and hydraulic actuators are proposed for applications in mechatronics. Additional applications include a variety of aids for the handicapped and instrumentation and simulators for surgical procedures. Education and new courses in mechatronics are featured, including telerobotics, other web-based technologies and robot competitions. Contributions are from authors throughout the world, plus summaries of each topic written by relevant experts in the field. Mechatronics is the blending of mechanics, electronics and computer control into an integrated design. It is the basis of an expanding list of products and techniques of great technical and commercial value. Ideas that were merely visions in the laboratory have emerged to find real applications in areas of vehicle guidance, robot aided inspection and agriculture. Low cost cameras developed for multimedia applications offer a whole new field of low-cost vision-based control through their ease of interfacing. This book presents the edited proceedings from the 7th Annual Conference of Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, presenting the latest research results and addressing the crucial issue of the design of courses and experiments that will best equip engineers for the mechatronic challenges of the future.
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Learn how to study, analyze, select, and design a successful mechatronic product This innovative, cutting-edge publication presents the essential nature of mechatronics, a field at the crossroads of information technology and mechanical and electrical engineering. Readers learn how to blend mechanisms, electronics, sensors, control strategies, and software into a functional design. Given the breadth that the field of mechatronics draws upon, this publication provides a critical service to readers by paring down the topics to the most essential ones. A common thread throughout the publication is tailoring performance to the actual needs of the user, rather than designing "by the book." Practical methods clarify engineering trade-offs needed to design and manufacture competitive state-of-the-art products and systems. Key features include: Easy-to-construct set of laboratory experiments to give readers practice in controlling difficult systems using discrete-time algorithms Essentials of control theory, concentrating on state-space and easily constructed simulations in JavaScript, including typical mechatronic systems with gross nonlinearities where linear methods give the "wrong answer" Hot topics that include advances in the automotive, multimedia, robotics, defense, medical, and consumer industries Author-provided Web site at www.EssMech.com offers additional resources, including videos, dynamic simulation examples, software tools, and downloads There are hundreds of choices involved in all but the simplest of mechatronic design tasks. Using this publication as a reference, electrical, mechanical, and computer designers and engineers can find the most efficient, cost-effective methods to transform their goals into successful commercial products. With its use of laboratory experiments, this publication is also recommended as a graduate-level textbook. Author Web site located at www.EssMech.com provides in-depth support material that includes links to simulations for modeling dynamic systems with real-time interactions, image processing examples, and 3D robot modeling software, enabling readers to "construct" and manipulate their own mechanism as well as other useful links.
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Carefully separating the essential from the ornamental, Essentials of Control Techniques and Theory presents the nuts and bolts for designing a successful controller. It discusses the theory required to support the art of designing a working controller as well as the various aspects to convince a client, employer, or examiner of your expertise. A Compelling Account of the Basics of Control Theory Control solutions for practicing engineers Using the author’s own Javascript On-Line Learning Interactive Environment for Simulation (Jollies), the text relies on computer-based graphical analysis methods, such as Nyquist, Nichols, root locus, and phase-plane, to illustrate how useful computer simulation can be for analyzing both linear and nonlinear systems. It explains step-by-step the design and modeling of various control systems, including discrete time systems and an inverted pendulum. Along with offering many web-based simulations, the book shows how mathematics, such as vectors, matrices, and the differential equations that govern state variables, can help us understand the concepts that underpin the controller’s effects. From frequency domain analysis to time-domain state-space representation, this book covers many aspects of classical and modern control theory. It presents important methods for designing and analyzing linear systems and controllers.
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Billingsley, John was born on August 14, 1939 in Cheltenham, England. Son of Wilfred Richard and Agnes Aldington (Green) Billingsley. arrived in Australia, 1992.
Bachelor with honors, Cambridge (England) University, 1960; Master of Arts, Cambridge (England) University, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge (England) University, 1968.
Graduate apprentice, Smiths Aviation Division, Cheltenham, England, 1960-1962; engineer II autopilot system and circuit specification and design, Smiths Aviation Division, Cheltenham, England, 1962-1964; demonstrator department engineering, Cambridge U., 1967-1971; assistant director research department engineering, Cambridge U., 1971-1976; reader electrical and electronic engineering, Portsmouth (England) Polytechnic, 1976-1986; personal chair robotics department, Portsmouth (England) Polytechnic, 1986-1992; professor engineering, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, since 1992; research director, National Center Engineering in Agriculture, Toowoomba, since 1992.
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Fellow Institution Engineers Australia. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior. Co-editor Journal Sys.
Architecture), Institute Elec. Engineers (control division board directors).
Married Rosalind Elizabeth Wilson, May 18, 1964. Children: Berry Anne, Richard John, William Henry.