Synergistic integration and practice of mechatronics technologies for interdisciplinary studies
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Ouyang, Cheng-Shiou
Abstract
The mechatronics technology has successfully brought a revolutionary development for the industry since its development in early 1970''s. It will improve the current methods to increase competitiveness as expectedly, if the mechatronics technology is applied to interdisciplinary cooperation. This paper presents several interdisciplinary mechatronics applications, including chemistry, agriculture, entomol and medical fields. It focuses on how to propose solutions according to the demands of each field, and shows the efficiency of the application in the end.
In the chemical field, the drawback of the solid phase microextraction (SPME) method used in pesticide residue detection is the inefficiency in the heating process for adsorption, and the inaccuracy detection results caused by human operation. This paper shows that adopting the microwave technology can help to reduce the heating time from several hours to minutes. In addition, the automatic technology can be used to develop a robotic analyzer to automatically process all the steps including sample heating, extraction, desorption, cleaning and pesticide analysis to ensure that all steps are accurately controlled.
In the agricultural field, in addition to quality indexes of the fruit such as appearance, sizes, and saccharinity, internal quality issues have also drawn much concern in recent years. This paper shows how to develop an X-ray system with image processing algorithms to inspect the internal quality of the fruit. The method could be extended and applied to the import and export quarantine on fruit. This will effectively improve the current human inspection with the microscopy method, making a significant improvement on efficiency and accuracy.
In the entomol field, insect behavior analysis is an important research issue. Previous studies on firefly’s flashing patterns were done by recording videos in the field, and then replaying the videos later in the laboratory. Estimating the duration and intervals of the flashing patterns is a time-consuming and tedious work, and would create errors if no digitization is employed. To reduce the time consumed by manual quantification, this paper shows how to develop an image process algorithm to analyze the behavior of firefly glowing more rapidly and accurately.
In the medical field, to reduce the side effects of cancer treatments from therapeutic drugs, several drug target methods based on magnetic theories have been proposed. These methods use magnetic nanoparticles as drug carriers. After injecting the nanoparticles into vein, an external static magnetic field is utilized to establish the magnetic force on nanoparticles, so that the nanoparticles can be concentrated on the disease site. This paper shows that the computer simulation technology can be used to investigate the efficiency of different conditions of the magnetic field. The simulation result shows that the high gradient magnetic separation (HGMS) method is one of the efficient ways to improve the probability of retaining nanoparticles on the disease site.
Subjects
interdisciplinary
mechatronics
X-ray
drug target
image processing
SDGs
Type
thesis
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