2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)最新文献

{"title":"Turning the internet of (my) things into a remote controlled laboratory","authors":"A. Torres, M. Santos, S. Balula, J. Fortunato, H. Fernandes","doi":"10.1109/REV.2016.7444505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2016.7444505","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we use a locally developed adaptive watering system as an example of a remote controlled laboratory (RCL) developed with standard open hardware and using libraries taken from the e-lab. This experiment is a particular case that could benefit from a large number of RCLs proposing different water budget strategies, allowing the studies of the best controller algorithm to save water. The water consumption log can be monitored in real-time and served to any user as a distributed remote laboratory with support of a Raspberry PI and a web connection, using an open source Arduino board and custom made shield. The ultimate goal of RCLs will be achieved when anyone can easily publish their own experiment in the WWW.","PeriodicalId":251236,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125274295","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 framework for publishing distibuted RCLs","authors":"J. Fortunato, J. Lopes, S. Balula, R. Neto, H. Fernandes","doi":"10.1109/REV.2016.7444508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2016.7444508","url":null,"abstract":"Remote Controlled Laboratories (RLCs) are expanding everywhere and there is a need for an accessible, yet robust and affordable framework to convey private experiments to the Internet based on the \"Internet of Things\". In this article we shall introduce a framework based on ready available open hardware and software that can be used in schools, or even at home by anyone with elementary programming skills. In a simple way we discuss how to connect a microcontroller capable of handling an experimental apparatus to the Internet based on a Raspberry Pi, and how to connect the latter using the Go-Lab framework. Moreover remote maintenance for this distributed apparatus can be provided on-line namely for update the firmware when needed. An example of an experiment provided within this technology is given showing the possibilities of this approach.","PeriodicalId":251236,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115670837","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":"Variable interactivity with dynamic control strategies in remote laboratory experiments","authors":"Ananda Maiti, A. Kist, Andrew D. Maxwell","doi":"10.1109/REV.2016.7444516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2016.7444516","url":null,"abstract":"Remote Access Laboratories (RAL) provide mechanisms to operate an experimental setup through the internet for educational purposes. These setups contain a control mechanism that reads inputs from the users, process them and return output data. Based on interactivity between user and experiment, the experiments are classified as interactive or batched. This paper defines the interactivity as a continuum from interactive to batched. This enables the experiment to alter the interactivity level for different outcomes. It may be changed when the network conditions are adverse and does not allow the interactive experiments to operate as they should for proper learning outcomes. It may also be altered by the makers of the experiment to design separate user interfaces for different learning goals or educational settings. A procedure to identify commands or functions that may be executed on the experiment and the relationship between different levels of commands are described here.","PeriodicalId":251236,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115132780","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":"A customizable platform for remotely teaching & learning LVDTs: The relevance of using the IEEE1451.0 Std. to facilitate its design and access","authors":"R. Costa, Samuel Fernandes, J. Jorge, G. Alves","doi":"10.1109/REV.2016.7444470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2016.7444470","url":null,"abstract":"In electrical engineering, sensing natural phenomena requires the use of transducers, such as the sensors named Linear Variable Differential Transformers (LVDTs). They are traditionally interfaced with computer devices through signal conditioning circuits to measure linear displacements with good linearity, sensitivity and precision. Their adoption in many industrial applications requires from engineering schools a particular attention to create the best conditions to teach and learn them, in particular by providing infrastructures to enable students the conduction of experimental activities. To overcome some of the difficulties faced by engineering schools (low budget, curricula time constraints, lack of infrastructures, among others), this paper presents a remotely accessible infrastructure comprising a customizable platform that enables the conduction of real LVDT experiments. Since the infrastructure is currently a prototype solution, some improvements are suggested, in particular the possibility of using some of the issues described in the IEEE1451.0 Std. that was originally published to design and interface smart transducers.","PeriodicalId":251236,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129426974","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 labs: A new tool in the education: Experience of Technical University of Madrid","authors":"D. Fernández-Avilés, Diego Dotor, D. Contreras, Jose Carlos Salazar","doi":"10.1109/REV.2016.7444480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2016.7444480","url":null,"abstract":"The Technical University of Madrid requires the use of laboratories which due to their dangerousness, duration or control of the developed processes are difficult to perform in real life. For this reason, we have developed several 3D laboratories in virtual environment. The laboratories are built on open source platform OpenSim. In this paper it is exposed the different laboratories of our University, we see small fragments of various laboratory practice, as well as the most representative parts of each practice. The laboratories selected are electronics, chemical experimentation, physical and topography.","PeriodicalId":251236,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127324414","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":"Extensive and repeatable experimentation in mobile communications with programmable instruments","authors":"Cesar A. García-Pérez, Álvaro M. Recio-Pérez, Alvaro Rios-Gomez, Almudena Díaz-Zayas, P. Merino","doi":"10.1109/REV.2016.7444436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2016.7444436","url":null,"abstract":"The Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI) is the most widespread interface for measurement equipment control in many areas, for example, electronics or telecommunications. Typically, these instruments are used only by experts with the support of ad-hoc software tools provided by the hardware vendor. A way to expand their use to less experienced professionals is the development of control frameworks with user interfaces commonly used in many testing and experimentation areas. This paper presents such a framework, based on the use of recent standards to define experiments, in order to control SCPI-compliant measurement equipment with more user-friendly interfaces that allow experiments to be automated. The use of technologies like cOntrol and Management Framework (OMF), OMF Measurement Library (OML) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) reduces the integration time to build such an experimentation framework involving several SCPI instruments and offers powerful script languages to reduce the time required for defining experiments. The MORSE team at the Universidad de Malaga (UMA) has defined a methodology to construct complex testbeds following these ideas. UMA has validated the proposal with the integration of commercial equipment to obtain a testbed for experimentation in 4G and future 5G mobile network technologies. The testbed can be used remotely to define and control experiments and to obtain the results in a very user-friendly way. The same approach can be applied to other domains.","PeriodicalId":251236,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129923590","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":"The evaluation of remote laboratories: Development and application of a holistic model for the evaluation of online remote laboratories in manufacturing technology education","authors":"D. May, C. Terkowsky, T. R. Ortelt, A. Tekkaya","doi":"10.1109/REV.2016.7444453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2016.7444453","url":null,"abstract":"The integration of online remote laboratories is still an emerging field in engineering education, especially in the area of manufacturing technology. Over the last years and in different project contexts the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL) and the Center for Higher Education (zhb) at TU Dortmund University developed a laboratory environment, which gives the opportunity to the students to do experiments like the tensile tests-a core experiment for defining material properties-from the computer at home using online technology. This system already has been used in different teaching contexts and its usage is now expanded step by step to other courses. Hence, its practice-based evaluation is coming more and more into focus in order to improve the technical equipment as well as its imbedding into the educational settings. This means that not only the technology and its functionality are evaluated but also a special focus has to be put on the student-computer interaction. Therefore a holistic model for evaluating the system and its usage has been developed. This model divides into three different perspectives for evaluation: (1) The individual perspective focusing the user's learning process in the laboratory environment, (2) the system-perspective focusing the technical equipment, and finally (3) the course perspective focusing the lab's integration into the course context. This evaluation model was inspired by several other evaluation approaches existing in literature. The aim was to work out both, a model that serves as a fitting evaluation process for the explicit context existing at TU Dortmund University and at the same time as an adequate approach for other remote laboratory contexts. This paper presents the evaluation model with its perspectives as well as the used questionnaires and its first application in context of an international online course making use of the IUL's remote lab.","PeriodicalId":251236,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133788652","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-learning model for teaching programming language for secondary school students in Indonesia","authors":"Vitri Tundjungsari","doi":"10.1109/REV.2016.7444477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2016.7444477","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aimed to propose e-Learning model as an educational concept to teach introduction to programming for secondary school students. The objective of the model is to determine the components involved by applying collaborative learning in e-Learning, to enhance students' motivation and understanding in the subject Information and Communication Technology/ICT, specifically in topic introduction to programming. The model is developed because the need of fast-paced informatics competencies as it mentioned in Indonesians Secondary School 2006 Curricula. In addition, ICT subject is considered as attractive yet a difficult subject to learn. Therefore, approaches and methods to teach in ICT subject should be designed and delivered carefully.","PeriodicalId":251236,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133680915","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":"Online lab infrastructure as a service: A new paradigm to simplify the development and deployment of online labs","authors":"D. Zutin, M. Auer, P. Orduña, C. Kreiter","doi":"10.1109/REV.2016.7444467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2016.7444467","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of RLMSs, the functionalities online laboratory systems began to be exposed via well defined external Web services-based APIs, what impacted positively on the efforts necessary to develop a new online laboratory. However, developing and deploying the Remote Lab system still requires a fairly high technical and administrative efforts in order to ensure the proper development, security, setup and maintenance of the online laboratory system. This work introduces a new paradigm to deliver Remote Lab infrastructure as a service aiming at minimizing the requirements posed to online lab developers and lab owners to connect an equipment to the Internet.","PeriodicalId":251236,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121461109","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 diagnostics of remote laboratory — On example of Joule's experiment as a probe into micro world","authors":"F. Schauer, M. Krbecek, M. Ozvoldova, L. Tkác","doi":"10.1109/REV.2016.7444472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2016.7444472","url":null,"abstract":"Real remote laboratory experiment on Joule's experimentation has both the historical and pedagogical importance in the building of the bridge between macro and micro world. Dissipative forces and their work as a transformation of the macroscopic mechanical energy into the energy of thermal movement are decisive in the study of mechanical phenomena of real world. The remote experiment should both qualitatively and quantitatively describe the transformation of macroscopic kinetic energy into heat and show the quantities, active in the transformation. The remote experiment represents a new generation of ISES remote experiments. The measureserver is equipped with a new diagnostics block, enabling diagnosis information on remote experiments both for the client and the provider.","PeriodicalId":251236,"journal":{"name":"2016 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122370859","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}