A Study on Conceptual Design of Mechatronic System

The conceptual design of mechatronic systems is addressed under the thrust of concurrent engineering and an enhanced conceptual design methodology describing the early design stage of mechatronic systems is presented through an example illustration of a pick and place robot. This methodology treats each feasible solution as a solution strategy. In the methodology, Quality Function Deployment （QFD） is used as a baseline for the analysis of the mapping from customers to engineering requirements, Axiomatic Design （AD） is adopted as a guideline to generate feasible, good design solution alternatives, and Theory of Inventive Problem Solving （TRIZ） is applied to deal with domain conflicts in design.