TY - GEN
T1 - Development and enhancement of RLab
T2 - 4th International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, ICSNC 2009
AU - Straatsma, Michael
AU - Cox, Daniel
AU - Ctistis, Christoph
AU - Bartz, Rainer
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The premise for the development of a remote laboratory, or RLab, is to allow a user from any location to access and perform a variety of experiments on electromechanical systems. Included in the RLab educational approach is a web-based virtual environment using LabVIEW that can be used to conduct testing of control methods applied to electromechanical machines, or physical plants. This remote laboratory, RLab, exposes a set of physical plants to worldwide use, with the only requirement at the client side being a computer and an internet browser. This laboratory environment gives remote users the possibility to control a real world physical plant, observe its behavior, and download measured data of the machine system for further analysis. The first version of RLab is used to control three electromechanical systems. The system consists of seven servers: a login server, three experiment servers, a client server, a webcam server, and a status monitor server. The system is upgraded to later releases of LabVIEW in order to exploit the built-in capabilities of LabVIEW and facilitate the introduction of new electromechanical plants. This paper describes the RLab environment and discusses the recent enhancements of the system.
AB - The premise for the development of a remote laboratory, or RLab, is to allow a user from any location to access and perform a variety of experiments on electromechanical systems. Included in the RLab educational approach is a web-based virtual environment using LabVIEW that can be used to conduct testing of control methods applied to electromechanical machines, or physical plants. This remote laboratory, RLab, exposes a set of physical plants to worldwide use, with the only requirement at the client side being a computer and an internet browser. This laboratory environment gives remote users the possibility to control a real world physical plant, observe its behavior, and download measured data of the machine system for further analysis. The first version of RLab is used to control three electromechanical systems. The system consists of seven servers: a login server, three experiment servers, a client server, a webcam server, and a status monitor server. The system is upgraded to later releases of LabVIEW in order to exploit the built-in capabilities of LabVIEW and facilitate the introduction of new electromechanical plants. This paper describes the RLab environment and discusses the recent enhancements of the system.
KW - Experimentation
KW - Remote laboratory
KW - System dynamics and control
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=72349084808&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICSNC.2009.97
DO - 10.1109/ICSNC.2009.97
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:72349084808
SN - 9780769537757
T3 - 4th International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, ICSNC 2009
SP - 159
EP - 164
BT - 4th International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, ICSNC 2009
Y2 - 20 September 2009 through 25 September 2009
ER -