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Real Systems in the Virtual Lab
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In engineering education, concepts taught through
lectures are often complemented by practical laboratory
experimentation. The students can observe dynamic phenomena that are
often difficult to explain by written material. In distance education
laboratory experimentation is inconvenient to integrate because the
students have to be physical present at the facilities in the distant
laboratory. Remote control of laboratory experiments is a new concept
to avoid this disadvantage. Three German universities (University of
Bochum, University of Dortmund, FernUniversität Hagen) are
currently developing a Virtual Lab as a network of remotely
accessible laboratories, in order to set up a prototype experimental
environment. The students will have access via Internet to various
experiments in control engineering, which are physically situated in
the control laboratories at these three universities. With remote
experimentation unique or expensive equipment can be shared between
different universities. Since a wider range of laboratory resources
can be made accessible, the students have the choice between more
experiments. They can use the Virtual Lab at any time and at any
place and save travel time and cost.
Contact:
- FernUniversität
Hagen
Department
of Electrical Engineering Control
Systems Engineering Group Dr.-Ing.
Andreas Jochheim Tel.:
+49 2331 / 987-1119 Fax:
+49 2331 /
987-354 E-Mail:
andreas.jochheim@fernuni-hagen.de
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Partners:
- University of Bochum
Faculty of Electrical
Engineering Control
Engineering Laboratory Prof.
Dr.-Ing. Heinz Unbehauen Tel.:
+49 234 /
700-4071 E-Mail:
unbehauen@esr.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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- University of
Dortmund
Faculty
of Electrical Engineering Lehrstuhl
für Elektrische Steuerung und Regelung
Prof. Dr. rer.nat.
Harro Kiendl Tel.:
+49 231 /
755-2760 Fax:
+49 231 /
755-2752 E-Mail:
kiendl@esr.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de
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Project duration:
- August 1998 to December 1999
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Publication:
C. Röhrig, A. Jochheim: Remote Control of
Laboratory Experiments 19th World Conference on Open Learning and
Distance Education, ICDE-1999, Vienna, Austria 1999
C. Röhrig, A. Jochheim: The
Virtual Lab for Controlling Real Experiments via Internet, IEEE
International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design,
CACSD'99, Kohala Coast-Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, August 1999
A. Jochheim,C. Röhrig:
The Virtual Lab for Teleoperated Control of Real Experiments,
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
CDC'99, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, December 1999
Schmid, Chr.: Virtual Control Laboratories and Remote Experimentation in
Control Engineering. Proc. 11th EAEEIE Annual Conference on Innovations in
Education for Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Ulm, Ulm,
2000, S.213-218.
Schmid, Chr.: Remote Experimentation Techniques for Teaching Control
Engineering. 4. International Scientific - Technical Conference Process
Control 2000, Pardubice, 2000, Paper RIP037.
Th. F. Junge, Chr. Schmid:
Web-Based Remote Experimentation Using a Laboratory-Scale Optical Tracker.
Invited paper. Proc. American Control Conference, ACC'2000, Chicago
Schmid, Chr.: Remote Experimentation in Control Engineering.
Prepr. 45. Internationales Wiss. Kolloquium, Ilmenau, 2000
C. Röhrig, A. Jochheim:
Java-based Framework for Remote Access to Laboratory Experiments.
IFAC/IEEE Symposium on Advances in Control Education, ACE 2000,
Gold Coast, Australia, December 2000
screen shots of the experiment omidirectional vehicle:
control of an omnidirectional vehicle
simulation
analysis of output data
a view in the lab:
you need
Java Media Framework 1.1 or later.
camera 1
camera 2