关键词：机械系统；同步控制；交叉耦合的错误
摘 要：Mechanical systems with synchronization functionality have been used for many complex production tasks that cannot be carried out by a single machine and/or individual mechanism. Synchronized control approach is one of the key issues to achieve the synchronized motion of mechanical systems, which attracts more and more attention from academic research to applications. There are many types of mechanical systems that require synchronized control, which have different kinematics and dynamics. It is not an easy job to use a unified synchronized control algorithm for all mechanical systems. This chapter summarizes the work on synchronized control mainly developed by the authors and their colleagues. In the presentation it tries to use several classical mechanical systems to show the design philosophy of the synchronized control systems, and consequently establishes a reader/user-friendly framework with tutorial, survey, applications, and potential research expansion.