The first comprehensive and up-to-date reference source on mechatronics, the first edition of Robert Bishop's "The Mechatronics Handbook" was quickly embraced as the standard reference in the field. Now, the second edition of this best-selling handbook is offered as a set of four easily digestible books, each one focused on a particular area of mechatronics. In addition to new and updated material within many of the chapters, this revision also includes eight new chapters on such topics as multi-body flexible dynamics, kinetics and dynamics of robots, computer simulation of physical systems, field programmable gate arrays, simulation with LabVIEW[registered], and information technology in mechatronics.