A new special issue on "Modern Mechatronics and Automation - An Open-Source Approach"

I am organizing a new special issue on  "Modern Mechatronics and Automation - An Open-Source Approach". Please submit your original paper to it.

Scope:

Nowadays, we can see modern mechatronic systems and automation everywhere, from industrial manufacturing to home automation. Using open-source hardware and software to rapidly prototype and develop mechatronic and automated systems has been well recognized by technological developers. Open-source electronic platforms such as Arduino, Raspberry PI boards and its compatible devices become a part of teaching and research activities at universities. The trend of shared source codes and documentation on the web-based software platforms, e.g. Github, allowing professionals and amateurs to access and collaborate their intellectual works has been promoted and implemented at not only open-source communities but also the leading technological corporations. Ethical laws on open-source hardware and software have been frequently consolidated along the incredible growth of the open-source world. Indeed, technological and social impacts of open-source hardware and software in mechatronics and automation are not deniable.

The primary aim of this Special Issue is to gather the most recent methodologies, technologies, and applications of open-source hardware and software in modern mechatronics and automation. We invite all papers with novel contributions in principles, development and applications of open-source hardware and software with, but not limited to, the following topics:

·      Current state of the art of open-source hardware and software used in mechatronics and automation.

·      Use open-source hardware and software in prototyping and development of mechatronics and automation.

·      Impacts of open-source approach on development and applications of mechatronic systems.

·      Ethical laws for open-source hardware and software in mechatronics and automation.  

·      Methodologies of using open-source platforms in research and education.

Keywords:

-       Open-source hardware

-       Open-source software

-       Open-source drivers

-       Free operating systems

-       Modern mechatronics

Automation

-       Internet of Things (IoT)

-       Cyber-physical systems (CPS)

-       Robotics

-       Do-it-yourself (DIY)

-       Rapid prototyping

-       Rapid development

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