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Remote Laboratories provide access to real experiments without time and location restrictions with necessary guidance required to perform experiments. Remote laboratories have emerged as an alternative to real laboratories and have shifted the past pedagogy from faculty-centric to student-centric approach. Over the past decade several remote laboratories have emerged in different parts of the world including those developed under Government of India's National Mission on Education through ICT as part of Right to Education (RTE) Program. Various approaches have been implemented to promote the use of remote laboratories in higher education. Technology to build remote laboratories has evolved considerably, there is still a growing concern regarding the multi-user scalability of these remote laboratories. Also, there is a need to incorporate innovative ideas such as collaboration of resources among universities within the remote laboratories framework. In this paper we propose a cloud based architecture for remote laboratories that provides scalability, more efficient use of resources, lower cost of ownership and shorter production time. Implementation of an Analog Communication lab, based on this architecture, has also been described. Advanced web technologies have been used to design an interactive user interface that makes teleoperation of high end instrumentation more convenient.

The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education, 2018

e-Learning emerged as a way for enhancing the quality of education and providing accessible distance learning to allow learners to study beyond regular class time, transcending the mandatory presence of teachers and the availability of classrooms by providing the necessary resources and services. One of the main issues of e-learning, especially in engineering education, is the lack of online educational laboratories. Practical work remains a considerable burden as engineering educational programs focus on handling real equipment. These last are only accessible within a restrictive schedule and might be unaffordable for low budget institutions. The need is clear for interactive platforms that enhance the motivation and controls the regulation of workload for each student. In this paper, an overview about online laboratories is given and a simple approach of remote lab is suggested. The proposal of our research team (Team SEITI) can be used for carrying-out experiments that require ne...

Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37510)

Technical Uniwxsiq qf Cutolonio (UPC) in Barcelonu, Spuin. The goal w'a.7 to solve the trade-r?fS hehveen the need forperforming real l u h o r u t o~ prac1ice.s in engineering education and the emergent implantation of distance learning in our curriculu. Most of our courses in Electronic Engineering have 50% of the load devoted to lohorutoty work and our aim is to uvoid a reduction of the lab charge and its substitution hy virtual lubs bused only on simulation. The subjects of the erperience ure the instrmentution and the sensor laboratories. The solution developed was U remote workbench, ha.yed on a web semer. U set of conrrolled imtruments and severul circuits, sensors and actuatom connected to the instruments through U .switching

2000

Remotely controlled laboratories have been developed in pilot projects for some years now. Many university teachers are considering to make their local experiments available over the internet as remote labs. There are a number of technical challenges that have to be solved in remote lab developments. In this workshop, we want to share our experience in building remote labs and

… , IEEE Transactions on, 2010

The great majority of the courses on science and technology areas where lab work is a fundamental part of the apprenticeship was not until recently available to be taught at distance. This reality is changing with the dissemination of remote laboratories. Supported by resources based on new information and communication technologies, it is now possible to remotely control a wide variety of real laboratories. However, most of them are designed specifically to this purpose, are inflexible and only on its functionality they resemble the real ones. In this paper, an alternative remote lab infrastructure devoted to the study of electronics is presented. Its main characteristics are, from a teacher's perspective, reusability and simplicity of use, and from a students' point of view, an exact replication of the real lab, enabling them to complement or finish at home the work started at class. The remote laboratory is integrated in the Learning Management System in use at the school, and therefore, may be combined with other web experiments and e-learning strategies, while safeguarding security access issues.

International Journal of …, 2005

Currently most universities have Onlinelearning environments ready to be remotely accessed through the internet, however in engineering education activities, the role of experimentation is a key concept. Remote Triggered Laboratories have emerged as viable alternatives in developing skills to deal with physical phenomenon and instrumentation in absence of real laboratory experience as well as to provide a sustainable option to shift from Faculty-Centric to student-centric teaching approach, which is more and more relevant in higher level education now a days. Remote laboratories can provide remote access to experiments ( and simulators as well), and can allow students to access experiments without time and location restrictions, providing the necessary guidance and constraining operation in order to avoid dangerous situations (both from set-up integrity and from the user's point of view).

Design, Control and Applications of Mechatronic Systems in Engineering, 2017

Typical mechatronic systems are a combination of advanced technologies involving several disciplines. This multidisciplinary approach to the development of industrial applications provides great opportunities for the implementation of e-learning environments and collaborative schemes. Engineering education, in particular, benefits from many of these advances, among which, virtual instrumentation is a useful tool for the development of virtual environments, e-learning spaces and, particularly, remote laboratories. This chapter describes the implementation of web-based laboratories that allow the remote operation of experiments used as training exercises in undergraduate engineering courses. The remote laboratories were developed using LabVIEW ® software, and they enable remote control and monitoring of laboratory equipment, allowing engineering students to perform experiments in real time, at their own pace, from anywhere, and whenever is suitable for them. Besides the experimental training that the web-based laboratories provide to students, the system is also a powerful teaching tool since real-time demonstrations of the experiments can be performed, and they also can be simultaneously monitored by a group of students. This approach is highly beneficial for engineering schools in developing countries, as resources can be shared through the Internet. A description of the system and three proposed experiments is presented, together with the experimental results.

International Journal of …, 2006

Abstract— Physical experiments are indispensable for developing skills to deal with physical processes and instrumentation. The Internet provides new possibilities for universities and other teaching organizations to share laboratories and increase the number of lab sessions ...

Electronics

This article describes the design and development of the NI myRIO device-based remote laboratory. The cloud-based, expandable, and reconfigurable remote laboratory is intended to give students access to an online web-based user interface to perform experiments. Multiple myRIO devices are programmed to host several experiments each. A finite state machine is used to select specific experiments, while a single state can contain several. The laboratory web virtual instruments interfaces are hosted on the SystemLink cloud and SystemLink server. A user-friendly interface has been designed to help students to understand important electronic concepts. Virtual and real experiments were fused to give students a wide range of experiments they can access online. The instructor can check outputs of an experiment being executed on the device. Achieving connection between myRIO and SystemLink through global variables and SystemLink ensured that the low-cost device was utilized, and this is suitab...