About the course

Master Basics of Mechatronics for GATE Robotics & Automation (RA) with comprehensive lectures, solved examples, PYQs, and practice questions. Learn sensors, actuators, transducers, microcontrollers, embedded systems, signal conditioning, mechanical and electrical systems, and mechatronic integration for GATE RA 2027.

Syllabus:

Network Elements: Ideal voltage and current sources, dependent sources, R, L, C, M elements; Network solution methods: Kirchoff’s laws (KCL, KVL), Node and Mesh analysis; Network Theorems: Thevenin’s, Norton’s Superposition and Maximum Power Transfer theorem; Transient response of DC and AC networks, sinusoidal steady-state analysis, resonance, two-port networks, balanced three-phase circuits, complex power and power factor in AC circuits.

Digital Circuits: Boolean algebra, combinational (multiplexers, encoders, decoders), and sequential circuits (flipflops, counters).

Sensors: Resistive, capacitive, inductive, piezoelectric, Hall effect sensors and associated signal conditioning circuits; transducers for industrial instrumentation- displacement (linear and angular), velocity, acceleration, force, torque, pressure.

Actuators: Principles of operation, performance, torque-speed characteristics of hydraulic and pneumatic actuators, DC motors, stepper motors, and servo motors. Engineering Mechanics: Free-body diagrams and equilibrium; friction and its applications- rolling friction, beltpulley; trusses and frames; kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies in plane motion.