Training of programmable instrumentation: a student laboratory
01 Jan 1997-pp 13-18
About: The article was published on 1997-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Instrumentation (computer programming).
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18 May 1998
TL;DR: The remote laboratory concept allows measuring resources spread on different geographically remote sites to be utilized by a wide deal of students and can be economically offered by several geographically remote laboratories specialized in different measuring fields.
Abstract: A remote laboratory for teaching purposes in the field of measuring experiments was activated. Students can access automatic measuring setups and instruments via geographic network and directly carry out real experiments. With respect to current literature solutions, this has been realized on the basis of de-facto networking standards so that students are required to use only a simple commercial Web Internet browser. Moreover, a concurrence of more users on the same measuring setup is allowed. The remote laboratory concept allows measuring resources spread on different geographically remote sites to be utilized by a wide deal of students. In this way, a more complete educational proposal can be economically offered by several geographically remote laboratories specialized in different measuring fields.
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18 May 1998
TL;DR: This paper describes a client-server architecture for the remote control of instrumentation over the Internet network that allows multi-user, multi-instruments sessions to be obtained by means of a queueing process and provides instrument locking capability.
Abstract: This paper describes a client-server architecture for the remote control of instrumentation over the Internet network. The proposed solution allows multi-user, multi-instruments sessions to be obtained by means of a queueing process and provides instrument locking capability. Client applications can be easily developed by using conventional high-level programming languages or well-assessed virtual instrumentation frameworks. Performance tests are reported, which show the low overhead due to network operations with respect to the direct control of the instruments.
104 citations
TL;DR: A remotely accessible laboratory realised for didactic aims at the University of Sannio, Italy, based on a software framework, with modularity characteristics that allows the insertion of new applications or the modification of the realised ones.
Abstract: The paper presents a remotely accessible laboratory realised for didactic aims at the University of Sannio, Italy. The laboratory is based on a software framework, with modularity characteristics that allows the insertion of new applications or the modification of the realised ones. Thanking to its implementation in Java and C++ with a CORBA communication layer, some instruments have been made available to the students of electronic measurement courses through a simple web browser in the form of Virtual Instruments (VIs).
97 citations
18 May 1998
TL;DR: Virtual instruments and distributed systems are of great interest to create advanced and flexible teaching and experimentation environments for measurement technologies at limited costs.
Abstract: Virtual instruments and distributed systems are of great interest to create advanced and flexible teaching and experimentation environments for measurement technologies at limited costs The availability of simple and efficient technological supports to dissemination and remote use of virtual systems becomes attractive to increase the diffusion of experimental practice disregarding the number of students and their location as well as the variety of instruments and measurement procedures directly available for experimentation
93 citations
TL;DR: RemLab as mentioned in this paper is a web site for remote teaching of measurements, where students get hypertextual tutorials on measurement topics, use remote instrumentation, and download result files for further local processing.
Abstract: The paper deals with a Remote Laboratory (RemLab) based on a Web site for remote teaching of measurements. RemLab was specifically designed in order to provide a remote access to instrumentation by means of only a commercial Web browser. Students get hypertextual tutorials on measurement topics, use remote instrumentation, and download result files for further local processing. Beyond educational aims, RemLab allows experimental know-how in the measurement field as well as research experimental results to be effectively diffused and exploited. Software and hardware design solutions as well as experimental results of educational measurement features are discussed.
47 citations