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Mechatronic systems are either electrically-driven products or technical processes. Electrically-driven products are machines transforming current, voltage, or other electrical power into mechanical, fluidic, pneumatic, hydraulic, thermal, or chemical power. Hence, those systems can be classified according to their functional objectives either as: (i) specialized machines performing specific operations; or (ii) multipurpose and adjustable machines. Control systems are a set of technologies enabling algorithmic computing or signal processing devices to use signals emitted from analog or digital detecting, sensing, and communicating devices in order to perform automatic operations of systems or process actuation. Such systems are expected to perform them routinely and independently of human intervention with a performance superior to manual operation.

Thus, control systems aim to provide the necessary input signals to achieve the desired patterns of variations of specific process variables. Therefore, the functions of control systems are embedded in electromechanical systems (machine or product control).