BE 463Design Principles of Mechatronics for Biosystems
This course applies the basics of mechatronic systems such as controller, sensor, and actuator theory to agricultural and biological systems. Applications in agricultural and biological systems will be covered throughout the semester such as developing mini-scale peach tree detector, apple harvester, animal body temperature sensing unit, nursery plant identifier, light sensor application for apple maturity evaluation, or similar topics. Students will gain hands-on experience with agricultural robotics and micro-controller programming through design and implementation of an embedded system based on microcontroller.