M. Tawfik, C. Salzmann, D. Gillet, D. Lowe, H. Saliah-Hassane, E. Sancristóbal, M. Castro
{"title":"Laboratory as a Service (LaaS): A model for developing and implementing remote laboratories as modular components","authors":"M. Tawfik, C. Salzmann, D. Gillet, D. Lowe, H. Saliah-Hassane, E. Sancristóbal, M. Castro","doi":"10.1109/REV.2014.6784238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2014.6784238","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution introduces a novel model, Laboratory as a Service (LaaS), for developing remote laboratories as independent component modules and implementing them as a set of loosely-coupled services to be consumed with a high level of abstraction and virtualization. LaaS aims to tackle the common concurrent challenges in remote laboratories developing and implementation such as inter-institutional sharing, interoperability with other heterogeneous systems, coupling with heterogeneous services and learning objects, difficulty of developing, and standardization.","PeriodicalId":330445,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"516 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124477668","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. Akrouf, Adel Merabet, A. Maza, D. Boubetra, L. Selmani, Abdelhak Boubetra, Nasser Eddine Mouhoub
{"title":"Web services for virtual simulation","authors":"S. Akrouf, Adel Merabet, A. Maza, D. Boubetra, L. Selmani, Abdelhak Boubetra, Nasser Eddine Mouhoub","doi":"10.3991/ijoe.v10i5.3796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v10i5.3796","url":null,"abstract":"Great development in distance learning has been made in the two last decade; the principal reason for that is due to the rapid evolution of technology, the huge development of computer networks, the large use of internet and personal computers. The World Wide Web with its different web services offers learners and teachers' new ways of learning and teaching; students can study at their own pace and perform practical works remotely. We, at the University of Bordj Bou Arreridj, are involved in a TEMPUS project; its acronym is eSience which stands for rESeau maghrébIn de laboratoirEs à distaNCE, it aims to link three elabs around the Maghreb countries namely Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. The project is coordinated by the University of Bordeaux 1, France with the participation of many other European partners. These elabs will propose practical and theoretical teaching units to their students and will be part of their degree program. In this paper we present the architecture of the platform proposed by our university and we will focus on the web interface which permits to students to perform their practical works on the virtual simulator called SMARTSPICE of SILVACO. The first part of the paper is an introduction to the service broker, which will allow students from different universities (partners) to communicate and use their different platforms without having to enroll in the different platforms. In the second part we present the simulation server and give an example of its usage.","PeriodicalId":330445,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130857362","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. Kist, Ananda Maiti, Andrew D. Maxwell, L. Orwin, W. Midgley, K. Noble, Wu Ting
{"title":"Overlay network architectures for peer-to-peer Remote Access Laboratories","authors":"A. Kist, Ananda Maiti, Andrew D. Maxwell, L. Orwin, W. Midgley, K. Noble, Wu Ting","doi":"10.1109/REV.2014.6784274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2014.6784274","url":null,"abstract":"Remote Access Laboratories are been used for practical learning activities in engineering education in the universities worldwide. Usually these systems follow a centralised client-server paradigm. This work proposes a peer-to-peer remote access laboratory architecture where participants are both users of experiments as well as makers. The feasibility of a peer-to-peer remote laboratories system is investigated. The system is built around a VPN service that allows direct access to makers' node from user nodes. To simplify the configuration a preconfigured VPN gateway node is introduced. This box is a network router that handles authentication, port forwarding and allocation of address space. The Remote Access Laboratories for fun, innovation and education (RALfie) project is a collaborative research and innovation project with the aim to engage children in STEM topics involving academics from engineering and education disciplines. In the context of RALfie, a prototype system has been developed and trial has been undertaken to establish whether children understand the RAL concept and to test their ability to configure remote experiments on their own. A brief summary trial results for the prototype implementation are reported.","PeriodicalId":330445,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125492395","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 Triggered FPGA based Automated System","authors":"Jasveer Singh T. Jethra, S. Patkar, Shamik Datta","doi":"10.1109/REV.2014.6784177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2014.6784177","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering students cannot afford the expensive high-end FPGA kits to execute and test their designs. In such cases, the users can check their designs using simulation but it does not give a feel of running their designs on the actual system. So a remote triggered system allows the user to test their designs on high end FPGA kits. The remote system asks the user to provide the design file and the test vectors and the system abstracts the tasks of compiling, synthesizing, pin assignment etc as these are automated at the remote FPGA's end or the server end. Thus, the users' work is further simplified. Hence the name, Remote Triggered FPGA based Automated System. Such a system is developed under e-Prayog project at IIT Bombay as a part of Virtual Lab project, an initiative by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under National Mission on Education through ICT. This paper presents the architecture of this system using an FSM method to implement it and also describes the supporting material developed to run a remote lab.","PeriodicalId":330445,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123828462","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":"Automation services from the cloud","authors":"R. Langmann, L. Meyer","doi":"10.1109/REV.2014.6784271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2014.6784271","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with new trends in process control technology, particularly with the use of automation services from a cloud. After a short overview regarding the state of the art in the application of new ICT technologies in process control systems, a new architecture for automation systems based on web technologies is introduced. The architecture is designated as a Web-Oriented Automation System (WOAS), following the approach of a web-oriented architecture familiar from IT. The WOAS architecture allows the transfer of principles and methods from the standardized world of Internet technologies to the world of industrial automation in a systematic and structured manner.","PeriodicalId":330445,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125181436","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. Leskov, V. Illarionov, A. Zimin, Svyatoslav D. Moroshkin, Igor Kalevatykh
{"title":"Distance robotics learning using Hybrid Simulating Testbed","authors":"A. Leskov, V. Illarionov, A. Zimin, Svyatoslav D. Moroshkin, Igor Kalevatykh","doi":"10.1109/REV.2014.6784261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2014.6784261","url":null,"abstract":"The authors examined the issues of building and educational use of Hybrid Simulating Testbed (HST) for robotic manipulator (RM). HST is based on the hybrid RM models, including computer models and physical RM models based on the serial industrial robots. The HST is controlled remotely. The HST user has the possibility to remotely select the structure and parameters of the MR control and simulation systems and to program it to solve particular problems.","PeriodicalId":330445,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122416235","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":"Development and implementation of an advanced remotely controlled vibration laboratory","authors":"L. Håkansson, I. Khan, A. Sharafi, J. Zackrisson","doi":"10.1109/REV.2014.6784193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2014.6784193","url":null,"abstract":"Currently an advanced remotely controlled vibration laboratory is developed and implemented at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden. The new developments in the laboratory setup will provide users to carry out vibration measurements on a cantilever beam system with remotely adjustable dynamic properties and to estimate dynamic characteristics of it. The dynamic properties of the cantilever beam are remotely modified by attaching structural parts such as a block of mass, a spring mass system and a non-linear spring. In the development of this remote-lab, a number of different approaches were adopted for the production of well-defined experiments. Also, the new prototype laboratory is designed based on finite elements modeling (FEM) and LABVIEW. The test object, attachment mechanism for sub structures, relevant experiments, and proper interface for managing the lab via Internet and many other things have been considered.","PeriodicalId":330445,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133546390","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":"Rise and fall of remote labs: Or perhaps not?","authors":"J. M. Martins Ferreira, O. Graven","doi":"10.1109/REV.2014.6784264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2014.6784264","url":null,"abstract":"Offering Internet access to laboratory workbenches became trendy in the early years of the last decade [1,2]. Remote labs, in opposition to real labs, are frequently regarded as an extension of e-learning platforms, offering the advantages of online access to an area where educational practices remained largely unchanged since pre-e-learning times. This vision has frequently led many technology enthusiasts to jump ahead of pedagogical concerns, and explains why it is possible to find many remote labs that offer little or no added value to the teaching and learning process [3:5]. This paper proposes a simple framework to compare remote labs to their main competitors in terms of educational value (real labs, simulation), and offers the authors' views concerning their relative pros and cons for a selected subset of criteria. The paper closes with recommendations for repositioning remote labs in a brand new world of emerging educational technologies and changing educational paradigms.","PeriodicalId":330445,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115686012","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 importance of being curricular: An experience in integrating online laboratories in national curricula for high schools","authors":"Mario Alessandro Bochicchio, A. Longo","doi":"10.1109/REV.2014.6784176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2014.6784176","url":null,"abstract":"Online laboratories are currently widely used in several educational settings, including lectures, individual or small group assignments, inquiry activities, homework and even hands-on laboratories. Usually they are proposed by teachers as additional and complementary resources, not included into the curricular activities. Moreover, for many teachers it is not clear if they are synergic to the school's hands-on laboratories, if any, or if they represent an alternative to them. The aim of this paper is to discuss an experience of integration of online laboratories (most of all interactive simulations), eBooks, other online materials and traditional books to support teachers and students in all phases of teaching. This result is the output of the co-designed with teachers and students, considering the rule of the Italian national curricula for high schools.","PeriodicalId":330445,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"243 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114146667","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}
L. Tobarra, S. Ros, Roberto Hernández, R. Pastor, A. Robles-Gómez, Agustin C. Cammero, M. Castro
{"title":"Low-cost remote laboratories for renewable energy in distance education","authors":"L. Tobarra, S. Ros, Roberto Hernández, R. Pastor, A. Robles-Gómez, Agustin C. Cammero, M. Castro","doi":"10.1109/REV.2014.6784235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/REV.2014.6784235","url":null,"abstract":"Remote laboratories are nowadays essential in distance learning, as our case is, since students are not able to use face-to-face traditional laboratories. These remote laboratories can be employed by teacher within virtual classrooms, so that students can carry out their on-line experiments from anywhere and at anytime. The main drawback of these kinds of laboratories is their cost; this is more noticeable in the field of renewable energy. For this reason, this work proposes the use of low-cost remote laboratories, aimed at the study of solar and wind renewable energy. The described remote laboratory is based on using the popular robotic kit, named Lego Mindstorms NXT v2.0. robotic kit, which allows teachers to have flexibility when designing the laboratory and adapt it to the educational necessities of a course. The programming of these laboratories has been performed by using RESTful web services with Lab VIEW, a novel approach that enables users the creation of multiplatform laboratories.","PeriodicalId":330445,"journal":{"name":"2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124986888","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}