Bond Graph Benefits the Education in Mechatronics Engineering

This paper provides a novel graphical Bond Graph teaching method to benefit the education quality in mechatronics engineering. Mechatronics engineering is considered an interdisciplinary subject since it involves mechanical, electronics, and control theory. Traditional control engineering focuses on dynamic mathematics modeling, such as state-space and ordinary differential equations, which makes it difficult to understand the subjects’ concepts during education. This paper proposes the Bond Graph as a native language for mechatronics engineering students, which can reach the same result as the traditional transfer function and state space methods with slight differences in modeling concepts. The Bond Graph also has a synergy property by representing multiple domains using the same toolset language. The Bond Graph as a Dataflow program helps students digest the complexity of the concept because of its modular characteristics. The Bond Graph provides convenience in mechatronics engineering education from a pure graphical modeling method.