Series Joint Event 2International Conferences on Design and Production Engineering&Mechatronics, Automation and Smart Materials November 13-14, 2017 Paris, France

Smart materials have properties that react to changes in their environment. This means that one of their properties can be changed by an external condition, such as temperature, light, pressure or electricity. This change is reversible and can be repeated many times.         

The automation industry is one of the current fastest growing areas of international high-technology economy. The field of automation involves the application of technology to monitor or control the production and delivery of products and services by the international automation federation. Automation engineers program, design, reproduce and test automated machinery and processes in order to complete exact task. They are employed in manufacturing companies such as car manufacturing or food processing plants, where robots are used to perform specific functions. Automation engineers are responsible for design parameters and other detailed documentation of their creations.

Mobile robots have the capability to move around in their environment and are not fixed to one physical location. Mobile robots can be "autonomous" (AMR - autonomous mobile robot) which means they are capable of navigating an uncontrolled environment without the need for physical or electro-mechanical guidance devices.

In medicine, bionics means the replacement or enhancement of organs or other body parts by mechanical versions. Bionic implants differ from mere prostheses by mimicking the original function very closely, or even surpassing it

This topic deals with robotics and robotic applications, especially in the field of mobility, manipulation and autonomy.  Actuators, automotive systems, bio-engineering, data storage systems, human machine Interfaces, information technology, industry applications, intelligent systems, manufacturing, micro electro mechanical systems, micro technology, modelling and design, motion vibration and noise control, neural and fuzzy control, opt electronic systems, prototyping, real time and hardware in the loop simulation, robotics, sensors, system Integration, transportation systems, smart materials and structures, energy harvesting and other frontier fields of mechatronics.

Manufacturing provides a modern overview of the real what's, why's, and how's of managing manufacturing technology. It stands for all stages of manufacturing including Computer aided design /computer-aided manufacturing infrastructure hardware and software, costing and forecasting systems, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) links to suppliers and customers, and managerial aspects, including human resource effects. It deals with overview and classification system for evaluating technology opportunities in manufacturing. 

It is the technology and methods used to provide imaging-based automatic inspection and analysis for such applications as automatic inspection, process control, and robot guidance in industry. The main uses for machine vision are automatic inspection and industrial robot guidance. This includes user interfaces, interfaces for the integration of multi-component systems and automated data interchange. Two important specifications in any vision system are the sensitivity and the resolution. Sensitivity is the ability of a machine to see in weak light, or to discern very light impulses at invisible wavelengths. Resolution is the extent to which a machine can differentiate between objects and the quality of being determined.

Industrial automation includes the functionalities of control systems, such as robots or computers and information technologies for handling different processes and machineries in an industry to replace manpower. Industrial automation is the second step beyond mechanization in the scope of industrialization. These technologies help many manufacturing companies to rescue large quantity of automation system resources and also make the works are completed in very short moment while comparing to normal manual works. The automation technologies help to increase the productivity of handling systems while reducing the engineering effort up to 85%. While comparing to 2008, as of now 2016 the Automation devices market has been increased from $ 5000 to $ 30000 which means hardly around 30% has been increased while comparing to 2008.

It is the art and science of measurement and control of process variables within a production, laboratory, or manufacturing area.An instrument is a device that measures a physical quantity such as flow, temperature, level, distance, angle, or pressure. Instruments may be as simple as direct reading thermometers or may be complex multi-variable process analyzers. Instruments are often part of a control system in refineries, factories, and vehicles.

Automation or automatic control, is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, switching on telephone networks, steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft and other applications and vehicles with minimal or reduced human intervention. Some processes have been completely automated.

Automation has been achieved by various means including mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, electronic devices and computers, usually in combination
 

Human-Machine Interaction is a study of interactions between humans and machines. Human Machine Interaction is a multidisciplinary field with the contributions from Human-Computer  interaction(HCI),   Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), humanoid robots and exoskeleton control.

Materials Science involves a study of the relationships between a synthesis, processing, structure, properties, and performance of materials that enable an engineering function. These properties of interest can be mechanical, electrical, magnetic or optical. Engineering function can impact industries involved in electronics, communications, medicine, transportation, manufacturing, recreation, energy, and the environment. While a field has evolved from materials, metals, ceramics, polymers and their various composites. In the recent years there has been increasing focus on creating novel metastable nanostructured materials. In a new fields of nanotechnology and bio materials are providing a materials scientist with an entirely new palette of molecular, organic, biological and inorganic building blocks to design and to assemble nano-engineered materials with unique functionalities.

The purpose of a control is to achieve desired system behaviour.
A control system design task includes two main tasks.
1). Understanding of a plant behaviour : system modelling
2). Design a suitable control law : control system analysis and design with a consideration of complexity and cost.

Traditional materials that provide high stiffness and strength can be modified at the Nano level to take on other properties such as energy absorption, self-healing and even shape morphing. The design of new smart materials and systems has major implications for the defence, aerospace, energy and semiconductor industries. The Multifunctional Materials program will provide graduates with a strong foundation in the fabrication, characterization, modelling and prototyping of multifunctional materials and other smart systems that improve safety, efficiency and versatility.

A smart structure is a system containing multifunctional parts that can perform sensing, control, and actuation. It is a primitive analogue of a biological body. Smart materials are used to construct these smart structures, which can perform both sensing and actuation functions.