M. Tawfik, E. Sancristóbal, S. Martin, R. Gil, A. Pesquera, M. J. Albert, G. Díaz, J. Peire, M. Milev, N. Mileva, G. O'Suilleabhain, S. Tzanova, C. Kreiner, L. Hormann, M. Castro
{"title":"Labor-oriented online master degree program","authors":"M. Tawfik, E. Sancristóbal, S. Martin, R. Gil, A. Pesquera, M. J. Albert, G. Díaz, J. Peire, M. Milev, N. Mileva, G. O'Suilleabhain, S. Tzanova, C. Kreiner, L. Hormann, M. Castro","doi":"10.1109/REV.2012.6293115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2012.6293115","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution reports on a new European project, Remote-labs Access in Internet-based Performance-Centered Learning Environment for Curriculum Support (RIPLECS), in which an official inter-institutional European master degree program in Information and Communication System (ICS) is created. The program is conducted online across five European institutions and is oriented to labor market needs for qualified graduates, with special focus on realizing real-world experiments in each subject remotely. The network architecture of RIPLECS platform enables world-wide distribution of learning resources by utilizing multiple Web servers at several European universities, within a single network topology. The paper discusses the project development stages, implementation and the expected outcomes.","PeriodicalId":166546,"journal":{"name":"2012 9th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133513720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remote operation of optical microscopes for use in science and engineering laboratories","authors":"A. Maiti, S. Mahata, C. Maiti","doi":"10.1109/REV.2012.6293143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2012.6293143","url":null,"abstract":"We have engineered an optical microscope that can be operated via the internet using most of the internet and networking capable devices including laptops and desktop computers. The system offers a user the ability to conduct visual inspection of samples, microelectronic devices and manipulation experiments in the field of biology. The remote controlled microscope is programmed to perform acquisition of images. The instrument is currently being used to perform thin film characterization experiments in microelectronics laboratory. Such a system may find a wide range of new applications for science experiments.","PeriodicalId":166546,"journal":{"name":"2012 9th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"210 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132658679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Rosa, R. Marcelino, V. Gruber, L. Schaeffer, J. B. Silva
{"title":"Remote monitoring system to measure the temperature of small wind power using Power Line Communication - PLC technology","authors":"M. Rosa, R. Marcelino, V. Gruber, L. Schaeffer, J. B. Silva","doi":"10.1109/REV.2012.6293147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2012.6293147","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the development of a monitoring and supervision system using power line communication technology and the data acquisition system. This was done by research and case study at laboratories of Faculdade SATC, using a web microserver with the power line to transmit and receive data through PLC (Power Line Communication) technology as a solution for remote monitoring. The variable to be controlled will be wind turbine temperature which for laboratory purposes was simulated by heating a resistor. After the prototype was made, tests were performed comparing the PLC technology and the LAN network in two different environments: residential and industrial. The network behavior was analyzed using a network analysis software in which a few parameters were established to represent network performance in sending and receiving data from the monitoring system. The data obtained by this study showed satisfactory results of the PLC technology compared to the LAN network, confirming the possibility of using this technology in remote monitoring systems, thus allowing increased reliability and operational convenience.","PeriodicalId":166546,"journal":{"name":"2012 9th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132141857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. S. D. Arregui, M. Plano, F. Lerro, Lucía Petrocelli, S. Marchisio, S. Concari, Virginia Scotta
{"title":"A mobile remote lab system to monitor in situ thermal solar installations","authors":"G. S. D. Arregui, M. Plano, F. Lerro, Lucía Petrocelli, S. Marchisio, S. Concari, Virginia Scotta","doi":"10.3991/ijim.v7i1.2292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v7i1.2292","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe the design and development of interconnected devices which allow monitoring in situ the performance of solar boilers. This mobile remote lab system comprises two huge blocks of hardware: a mobile station located by the boiler, which is monitored and controlled in a remote way, and a fixed station, located in the Laboratory of Energy for the Sustained Development of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. The communication between the fixed and mobile devices is controlled by microcontrollers included in both stations and programmed in C language. The project is being developed through three parallel lines of work: 1) Design and development of fixed and mobile hardware; 2) Development of firmware and software necessary to register and communicate data; 3) Design and development of learning activities. This mobile remote lab will be useful to test the behavior of solar boilers in the place and environmental conditions where they are placed so as to evaluate their performance and efficiency anywhere. This is also in order to contribute for the implementation of norms for the certification of solar boilers. On the other hand, the data and results obtained from the development will be used as supplies for the design of learning activities.","PeriodicalId":166546,"journal":{"name":"2012 9th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"433 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132386960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual fences as protection against damage on physical equipment used in remote laboratories","authors":"D. Samuelsen, O. Graven","doi":"10.1109/REV.2012.6293157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2012.6293157","url":null,"abstract":"The topic of this paper is to present a strategy for prevention of damage on laboratory equipment used in a remote laboratory. The laboratory is used for verification of control algorithms for quad rotor helicopters through practical experiments. The damage control strategy should not limit or impede the natural movement of the equipment as long as the behaviour is kept within predefined limits. The nature of the system to be controlled, exclude the use of physical constraints that are normally used for damage control, as these in some way or another will impede or limit the movement of the helicopter.","PeriodicalId":166546,"journal":{"name":"2012 9th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124713289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Chen, J. Zornig, N. Chester, P. Tregloan, A. Cody, M. Cheesman
{"title":"VLPC: A HTML5 pharmacology virtual laboratory","authors":"S. Chen, J. Zornig, N. Chester, P. Tregloan, A. Cody, M. Cheesman","doi":"10.1109/REV.2012.6293114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2012.6293114","url":null,"abstract":"This paper documents on the programming and software design underpinning the Virtual Laboratory Practical Class (VLPC) program. This is an experiment simulation HTML5 web, which was designed to provide students with a virtual “pre-lab” experience where they can conduct an experiment and use equipment and techniques that they will encounter in a “live” pharmacology practical laboratory class. The VLPC replaces the traditional laboratory manual with a virtual depiction of the experiment to be undertaken. Students can run through the entire sequence which involves utilizing the virtual depictions (widgets) of lab instruments through to plotting and analyzing the data generated as consequence of their actions. In order to provide a user-friendly distribution and installation-free experience, the VLPC is fully web-based and leverages the Sproutcore HTML5 framework to create an interactive application that can function on all major browsers without the Flash plugin. The implementation makes extensive use of Statecharts to model the behaviors of the cast of equipment widgets that make up the VLPC experience. In addition to dictating responses to the student's actions, widget states provide the means to record and monitor the student's decisions about use of the equipment in the simulation.","PeriodicalId":166546,"journal":{"name":"2012 9th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127812105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Villar-Zafra, S. Zarza-Sánchez, J. A. Lázaro-Villa, R. M. Fernández-Cantí
{"title":"Multiplatform virtual laboratory for engineering education","authors":"A. Villar-Zafra, S. Zarza-Sánchez, J. A. Lázaro-Villa, R. M. Fernández-Cantí","doi":"10.1109/REV.2012.6293127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2012.6293127","url":null,"abstract":"An autonomous and multiplatform virtual laboratory for educational purposes is presented. The implemented platform includes a server with a SSH (Secure SHell) connection and a separated repository containing the virtual experiments. The programming of the experiments is implemented in Java language based tool, the EJS (Easy Java Simulation) and uses an external computation engine, for example Matlab. The virtual laboratory provides control system experiments at University level. Two application examples are described, namely, a magnetic levitator and an inverted pendulum-cart system. The virtual laboratory has been successfully used for education and training of Electronics Engineering students. A discussion of the results of this e-learning experience is also presented.","PeriodicalId":166546,"journal":{"name":"2012 9th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116825529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"e-lab remote laboratory integrated overview","authors":"R. Neto, H. Fernandes, J. Pereira, A. S. Duarte","doi":"10.1109/REV.2012.6293102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2012.6293102","url":null,"abstract":"e-lab is a remote laboratory infrastructure, powered by a specific software framework, that allows to perform experiments and retrieve data from a remote apparatus. The deployment of new experiments on this platform is a complex and demanding process and an integrated overview for it is missing. An overview of e-lab's specifications is presented taking into account software development requirements for the deployment of new experimental apparatus and possible improvements.","PeriodicalId":166546,"journal":{"name":"2012 9th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130158722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UniSchooLabs toolkit: Tools and methodologies to support the adoption of universities' remote and virtual labs in schools","authors":"A. Chioccariello, Andrea Ceregini, M. Tavella","doi":"10.3991/ijoe.v8is3.2271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v8is3.2271","url":null,"abstract":"The UniSchooLabs project aims at creating an infrastructure supporting web access to remote/virtual labs and associated educational resources to engage learners with hands-on and minds-on activities in science, technology and math in schools.","PeriodicalId":166546,"journal":{"name":"2012 9th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129732831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconfigurable IEEE1451-FPGA based weblab infrastructure","authors":"R. Costa, G. Alves, M. Zenha-Rela","doi":"10.1109/REV.2012.6293107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2012.6293107","url":null,"abstract":"Weblabs are spreading their influence in Science and Engineering (S&E) courses providing a way to remotely conduct real experiments. Typically, they are implemented by different architectures and infrastructures supported by Instruments and Modules (I&Ms) able to be remotely controlled and observed. Besides the inexistence of a standard solution for implementing weblabs, their reconfiguration is limited to a setup procedure that enables interconnecting a set of preselected I&Ms into an Experiment Under Test (EUT). Moreover, those I&Ms are not able to be replicated or shared by different weblab infrastructures, since they are usually based on hardware platforms. Thus, to overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a standard solution that uses I&Ms embedded into Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGAs) devices. It is presented an architecture based on the IEEE1451.0 Std. supported by a FPGA-based weblab infrastructure able to be remotely reconfigured with I&Ms, described through standard Hardware Description Language (HDL) files, using a Reconfiguration Tool (RecTool).","PeriodicalId":166546,"journal":{"name":"2012 9th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117144792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}