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Overview on remote laboratoriessome representative laboratories and projects in the electrical engineering domain
Ricardo Costa
rjc@isep.ipp.pt / rjc@dei.uc.pt http://www.laboris.isep.ipp.pt/rjc
Doctoral ConsortiumResearch Methods Course
Coimbra 29th January 2010
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Presentation outline
Introduction
Background on laboratory work and laboratory types
Educational and technical issues
Examples of remote laboratories– Netlab – University of South Australia– MIT iLab – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EUA)– VISIR Project (Deusto Weblab) - University of Deusto (Spain)– NUS Laboratory – National University of Singapore– Other projects
Conclusions and a future direction
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Introduction
In the last years there was a technology evolution;People adopted technology in their lives (e.g. Internet, PCs, mobile devices, etc.)
So…it was an opportunity for applying technology to education motivating students for learning;
Currently…technologies (internet + PC) are playing an important role in educationproviding flexibility for students and teachers.(e.g. Virtual Learning Environments like Moodle).
However…Sciences & Engineering courses require laboratory work (experimental work) which are not included in those environments !
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Background on laboratory work and lab. types
Simulations
ExercisesDocuments,
Images, animations,
Etc.
Sciences & Engineeringcourses
Group activities
Research
Practical WorkTheoretical Work
Laboratory work(experimental work)VLE -Virtual Learning Environments
Videoconference tools
Is it possible to use technology (Internet + PCs) to facilitate/improve the conduction of experimental work ?
Personal Computers
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Background on laboratory work and lab. types
Traditional labs(hands-on labs)
Virtual labs (simulated labs)
Hybrid labs
Remote labs (weblabs)
Laboratory work(experimental work)
Students must be physically in the laboratory and the equipment is real.
Locally, students conduct experiments using equipment modeled by software.
Students can interact with real equipment from everywhere at anytime using a simple device (PC, smart phone or mobile phone, etc.)connected to the internet.
Students interact with both simulatedand real equipment.
Real resultsFlexibilityCollaborationMotivation Costs may be reduced, etc.
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Educational and technical issues
Technical issues: concern the way each Educational issue should be technically implemented.
Remote labs(weblabs)
Educational issues: concern the requirements that a remote laboratory should meet to provide all the facilities to achieve good learning and teaching processes.
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Educational and technical issues
Following ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)laboratory work should provide:• Conceptual understanding - activities should help students understand, solve problems and
illustrate concepts and principles;• Design skills - students should learn how to design, construct and research;• Social skills - students must run laboratory activities not only individually but also in groups;• Professional skills - technical skills and practical knowledge should be provided.
Literature review conducted in2006 by Ma and Nickerson based on 37 selected papers (2006)
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Educational and technical issues
device (PC, smart phone, mobile phone, etc.)
internet Web Serverunit(s)U
nder Test
Students
Laboratory Server(pedagogical contents and
administrative services (e.g. booking and security access systems, etc.)).
Instrumentation Server(connection with
instruments, webcams, UUTs).
instrument(s)
webcam(s)
Teachers
Work groups
Conceptual model of a remote laboratory infrastructure plus the involved actors.
Etc.
Etc.
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Educational and technical issues
LabVIEW interface
PXI chassis
Remote lab infrastructure
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Examples of remote laboratories
Netlab - University of South Australia (UniSA) - 2002•RC Transient Analysis, AC Phasor Analysis, Series Resonant Circuit and RC Filter•Virtual Instrumentation Software Architecture (VISA)•Circuit Builder; Collaborative tools; Booking system (real-time control mode)•Website available in: http://netlab.unisa.edu.au/
Web interfaceBooking system
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Examples of remote laboratories
iLab – MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EUA) - 2000•Chemical eng., polymer crystallization, structural eng., signal processing, microelectronics•iLab Shared Architecture (ISA): i) Client; ii) Service Broker; iii) Lab Server•Adopted NI-Elvis platform from NI for creating electrical laboratories.•Website available in: http://ilab.mit.edu/ServiceBroker/
Microelectronics labISA architecture
NI-Elvis platform(2006)
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Examples of remote laboratories
VISIR Project - 2006•VISIR consortium: FH Campus Wien and Carinthia University of Applied Sciences - Austria, University of Deusto - Spain, University of Genoa - Italy, Gunadarma University - Indonesia and Uninova - Portugal.•Goal: Create an open laboratory platform for the reuse of software modules;•Ruled by the IVI Foundation - standard instrument programming interfaces;
University of Deusto example - 2007•Electronics workbench;•The website: https://www.weblab.deusto.es/
Virtual breadboard Virtual instrument shelf
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Examples of remote laboratories
NUS laboratory - National University of Singapore - 2000•Experiments: frequency modulation; coupled tank, 2D and 3D oscilloscope, helicopter and Robotic Soccer;•Follows a double client-server architecture (client-webserver-controller);•The website is available in: http://vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg/.
Architecture
Frequency modulation experiment
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Conclusions and a future direction
•There is an widespread of remote laboratories in S&E courses;
•Remote laboratories improve the S&E courses providing more and better laboratorial experiments (they are complementing traditional laboratories);
•But… remote laboratories follow specific and distinct technical implementations, with several hardware and software architectures. There is no standard solution for creating remote laboratory infrastructures which creates some problems:
•collaboration among institutions is weak, because it is difficult the reuse and interface different instruments/modules (I&M) used by a specific experiment;
•some institutions do not apply weblabs in their courses because they don’t have the required technical skills;
•costs may be high, since creating a weblab infrastructure requires a PC and associated software, together with several instruments (eventually comprehending several futures not required in a specific experiment), and;•an architecture based on a single PC poses constraints for running several
experiments, requiring scheduling techniques.
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Conclusions and a future direction
Servidor
Instrumentation Bus
Lab Server
Ethernet
Database
InstrumentRobots
Experiment
InstrumentInstrumentInstrumentation Server
Web Lab infrastructure
usersWEB
Web Interfacesto remotely control a specific
experiment
Pedagogical ContentsAccess Management
Control / Monitorization
FPGA-based Boards + IEEE
1451.0 Std.
Solution: adopt reconfigurable devices like FPGA-based Boards following the IEEE 1451.0 Std. (which is a std. for interfacing smart transducers).
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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Ricardo Costa
Contacts:
http://www.laboris.isep.ipp.pt/rjc
rjc@isep.ipp.pt or rjc@dei.uc.pt
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FPGA-based Board example
Spartan-3E Starter Kit - XILINXA/D and D/A
Ethernet port I/O portsLCD
display
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IEEE 1451.0 Std.
IEEE Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and Actuators — Common Functions, Communication Protocols, and Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) Formats.
Approved on 2007.
This standard provides a common basis for members of the IEEE 1451 family of standards to be interoperable. It defines the functions that are to be performed by a transducer interface module (TIM) and the common characteristics for all devices that implement the TIM. It specifies the formats for Transducer Electronic Data Sheets (TEDS). It defines a set of commands to facilitate the setup and control of the TIM as well as reading and writing the data used by the system. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are defined to facilitate communications with the TIM and with applications.
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IEEE 1451.0 Std. – reference model (I)
NCAP – Network Capable Application Processor
TIM - Transducer Interface Module
TEDS -Transducer Electronic Data Sheet
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