Tele-operated Laboratories
École des Mines de Nantes, France, 2012
Summary
This project is a continuing effort among four universities (École des Mines de Nantes, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar) to create a technological platform in which students from the member Universities can share the laboratories they have for education purposes via the internet.
The usage of laboratories via the Internet brings different advantages to students, as well as universities:
- The laboratories (sometimes under-used) can be used by people all over the world when they are not in use locally, increasing their usage time.
- Students have the opportunity to use a laboratory to which they don't have access to locally.
- Universities can reduce their cost in new laboratories by sharing with Universities with existing laboratories.
Detailed Explanation
This project is a continuing effort among four universities (École des Mines de Nantes, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar) to create a technological platform in which students from the member Universities can share the laboratories they have for education purposes via the internet.
The technological platform aims to facilitate the creation of new remote laboratories by the easy adaptation of existing laboratories. The platform also aims to easily integrate new universities into the system, so the community can share all the resources among themselves.
I had the opportunity to work in this project at the École des Mines de Nantes, France. My contributions to the project were:
•Implemented a step-by-step guide to create remote laboratories with Matlab and Labview. With this guide future implementers had a way to systematically adapt a local laboratory to be used in a remote way.
•Created a queuing system to organize students in the use of remote laboratories via Internet. The system used PHP, html and Javascript to control the flow of students into the system.
•Developed a remote laboratory for educational purposes in engineering undergraduate classes in control theory.
•Participated in the creation of educational remote laboratories accessed via Internet.
The following diagram shows in detail how the laboratories were created and added to the system:
The technological platform aims to facilitate the creation of new remote laboratories by the easy adaptation of existing laboratories. The platform also aims to easily integrate new universities into the system, so the community can share all the resources among themselves.
I had the opportunity to work in this project at the École des Mines de Nantes, France. My contributions to the project were:
•Implemented a step-by-step guide to create remote laboratories with Matlab and Labview. With this guide future implementers had a way to systematically adapt a local laboratory to be used in a remote way.
•Created a queuing system to organize students in the use of remote laboratories via Internet. The system used PHP, html and Javascript to control the flow of students into the system.
•Developed a remote laboratory for educational purposes in engineering undergraduate classes in control theory.
•Participated in the creation of educational remote laboratories accessed via Internet.
The following diagram shows in detail how the laboratories were created and added to the system: