J. Grodotzki, A. Selvaggio, T. R. Ortelt, A. Tekkaya
{"title":"Demonstration of deep drawing experiments in a remote lab environment","authors":"J. Grodotzki, A. Selvaggio, T. R. Ortelt, A. Tekkaya","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984374","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding fundamental process limits is a crucial skill for all types of engineers. In mechanical engineering, this especially applies to the field of metal forming. To have the students understand the different limits of the commonly used deep drawing process, e.g. the influence of the clamping force, a tele-operative testing cell was developed at the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Components of TU Dortmund University. The live experiments that can be conducted using this testing cell are included in different lectures as well as in remote labs which are accessible online for students around the world. In either case, the experiments are used to have the students realize on their own what different types of limits exist and when they occur.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124267196","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}
Julian Bermudez-Ortega, E. Besada-Portas, J. Orozco, J. M. Cruz
{"title":"A new open-source and smart-device accessible remote control laboratory","authors":"Julian Bermudez-Ortega, E. Besada-Portas, J. Orozco, J. M. Cruz","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984376","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we show a new remote lab software architecture for Automatic Control Education. This architecture is based on Node.js and Easy Java/JavaScript Simulations, which make it lightweight and accessible from smart devices like smartphones or tablets. It is easily adaptable to different types of controllers and experiments, as the existing labs at the University Complutense of Madrid show.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124736469","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":"Towards the use of commercial wrist wearables in education","authors":"F. A. Pérez, M. Caeiro, Juan M. Santos-Gago","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984354","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is about the use of commercial wrist wearables in education, more specifically, about how to support smart education in the context of new smart universities. Wrist wearable devices such smartwatches or smartbands include a variety of sensors that can be used to collect physiological and activity-related data about a subject, for example a learner or a teacher, and estimate insightful features about him. This paper reviews the current state of the art of projects and initiatives based on the use of these devices, the types of wearables available nowadays and the main problems and issues involved for educational purposes: data collection, data integration, sensor accuracy, etc. In the paper, we also introduce our developments towards the provision of sleep and stress indicators taking advantage of these devices. We distinguish among services for students, for teachers and for developers.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133420654","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":"Experimenting with constrained dead time compensators for FOTD systems","authors":"M. Huba, K. Žáková","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984386","url":null,"abstract":"Plant approximations by the first order plus dead time systems represent the most frequently used plant models in control design. The paper describes experimental environment enabling to demonstrate by virtual and real time experiments all aspects of a successful dead time compensator design. The batch of possible experiments includes verification of control constraints impacts, phenomena related with control of unstable plants, input and output disturbances and measurement & quantization noise. By a series of such experiments it is possible to demonstrate, when a continuous-time solutions are not satisfactory and some discrete-time implementations have to be used, or when a filtered Smith predictor does not represent the optimal solution and an alternative disturbance observer based compensator has to be chosen instead.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123385346","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}
C. Kreiter, R. Oros, A. Pester, I. Gustavsson, M. Castro, A. Fidalgo, G. Alves
{"title":"VISIR federation: Initial building steps: PILAR experience — Work in progress","authors":"C. Kreiter, R. Oros, A. Pester, I. Gustavsson, M. Castro, A. Fidalgo, G. Alves","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984403","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative working as well as sharing resources and knowledge represent key points in today's development in all fields, including education. Know-how transfer and collaboration in learning and teaching are aspects promoted and sustained by institutional management as well as the European initiatives. Thus, leading to the idea of a federation which will facilitate engineering education. A consortium formed by five European universities decided to join efforts to provide to the community a federation, which could be used by different stakeholders interest in teaching, learning or developing new skills in the field of electronics. The proposed remote system, Virtual Instruments System in Reality, or VISIR in short, offers the possibility of working with real equipment and obtain the real-world/ real-time measurements. By developing such a VISIR federation some of the constraints of using remote labs, the ones associated with development and maintenance costs, and scalability, will be minimized. This paper aims to present the initial steps for developing a VISIR Federation, which is also the primary goal of PILAR — Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR project.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"396 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116525401","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":"WEB PLC simulator for ST programming","authors":"L. Palma, Vasco Brito, J. Rosas, P. Gil","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984410","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the main functionalities of a WEB Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Simulator for programming in Structure Text (ST) language, in the context of industrial automation and control, are presented. The available ST identifiers, expressions and statements are described, and some code examples are given. The simulator provides digital input/output channels, analog input/output channels and also the interaction with a dynamic process model of type autoregressive with exogenous input (ARX). The main contributions are a new environment for teaching, for remote learning, as also one more way to motivate the students and to obtain feedback from them.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125405726","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}
Vanja Luković, R. Krneta, Ana Vulovic, Dorde Damnjanovic, A. Peulić, C. Dimopoulos, K. Katzis
{"title":"Comparison of the effectiveness of Logisim software tool and remote experiments based on Nexys 2 FPGA platform in learning digital circuits design","authors":"Vanja Luković, R. Krneta, Ana Vulovic, Dorde Damnjanovic, A. Peulić, C. Dimopoulos, K. Katzis","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984400","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the findings from our study on the parallel usage of Logisim software tool and remote experiment based on Nexys 2 FPGA hardware platform for learning digital circuits design and computer architecture by students of the first and the second-year of Electrical, Computer and Mechatronics Engineering undergraduate study programs at the Faculty of Technical Science Čačak, University of Kragujevac. For the purpose of comparison of the effectiveness of these two learning tools, a survey was conducted between students who used these tools in learning digital circuits design within the course Foundations in Computer Technics 2 during the winter semester of the academic year 2016–2107. Based on analysis of given results some conclusions were drawn regarding to parallel usage of Logisim software tool and remote experiments based on FPGA hardware platform in learning digital circuits design.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125858251","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 Reality for Real Estate: Its evolution in Bluemind Software","authors":"B. Deaky, L. Parv","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984408","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of the VR4RE (Virtual Reality for Real Estate) project, which aims at saving time and money for both real estate sellers and buyers by employing modern technologies. VR4RE is one of the innovative projects developed by Bluemind Software and it is in an advanced state. This paper also illustrates the history of in-house technological attempts at creating appropriate presentation tools for real estate properties with 3D and VR (Virtual Reality).","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122305787","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 demonstration of a EEG-based drowsiness detector","authors":"Daniel Ribeiro, A. Cardoso, C. Teixeira","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984342","url":null,"abstract":"Taking a look at the number of road accidents, it's noticed that a significant part of these is due to the driver falling asleep at the wheel. This paper will descrive a Web-based plataform capable of storing, processing and analyzing eletroencephalogram (EEG) signals, thus descriving the ability to detect drowsiness that could prevent the occurrence of accidents related to driving. This Web-based platform will allow the user to test various possibilities with the use of different EEG signals, filters, window's sizes and steps, delays and classifiers, in order to find the best combination for the detection of drowsiness while driving.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121389536","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":"Simulation tool for time sub-optimal control of time-delayed systems with input saturation","authors":"P. Bisták, M. Huba","doi":"10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2017.7984392","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a simulation tool that compares different time sub-optimal controllers applied to the second order time-delayed systems with integral character. The controlled system is modeled by two integrators with a time-delay. Depending on the desired closed loop poles various time sub-optimal controllers are derived. They represent hybrid solutions with dynamics ranging from the relay minimum time systems to linear pole assignment ones. In contrast to the other known solutions the controllers derived are appropriate also for extremely fast application and easy to tune by a procedure that generalizes the well-known method by Ziegler and Nichols. The simulation tool designed in the Matlab/Simulink environment enables an easy-to-use controller design changing their parameters and appling them to the controlled system. By being easily accessible via Internet it is excellent to cary on comparision of applied methods.","PeriodicalId":283954,"journal":{"name":"2017 4th Experiment@International Conference (exp.at'17)","volume":"27 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113981204","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}