DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS MECHATRONIC SYSTEM OPERATED FROM MATLAB-SIMULINK ENVIRONMENT

The paper deals with a realization of control of distributed mechatronic system ope-rated from MATLAB-Simulink environment. The mechatronic system serves as a la-boratory model of simple manipulation system. The communication within the system is provided by wireless ZigBee protocol through a coordination unit. This unit is connected via serial interface to the control computer, where appropriate Simulink model runs. The paper addresses briefly individual physical components of the sys-tem (units, passive and active or executive elements etc.), specific blocks of used Simulink model and demonstrates the system behavior on several examples. 1 Mechatronic Systems and Wireless Communication Up-to-date industrial machines, due to a requirement of just-in-time production and its diver-sification, have to meet a definite level of flexibility, movability and modularity. The machines have to be simply modifiable for product variations. In general, if the modern machines are analyzed, they are formed not only from mechanical parts, but they combine a lot of electro-mechanic and pure electric components. Used term for such machines or their groups is term “mechatronic systems”