Remote Laboratory – Study of Digital Oscilloscope

Abstract

The present paper describes a measurement system that is a subject of a remote laboratory for students studying instrumentation and measurements. The laboratory work is dedicated for the study of the oscilloscope. It uses three instruments connected via Universal Serial Bus to a computer. The system can be controlled remotely by students located at home or in dormitories, using a web browser. The instruments used in this application are an arbitrary function generator, a digital storage oscilloscope and a digital multimeter. A virtual instrument has been created in the graphical programming environment LabVIEW. This kind of application can be used with any interfaceable instrument and it can be adapted for any remote laboratories. Students can access the laboratory after providing the username and the password into the interface and after, they can follow all the steps to complet the lab. In the end they can compare their results with those recorded by the system.