Textbook in PDF format Several new technologies have emerged, allowing designers to revolutionize their approach. Some ideas were impossible to implement a decade ago, but with the advent of these new technologies these ideas have been revised, and mechatronic design methods are being considered. As mechatronic systems get more complex, the challenges associated with successfully executing them also become more demanding. The purpose of this book is to help better understand how mechatronics will impact the practice and research of developing advanced techniques to model, control and optimize complex systems