REAL: a virtual laboratory for mobile robot experiments

Author

Guimarães, Eliane ; Maffeis, Antonio ; Pereira, James ; Russo, Bruno ; Cardozo, Eleri ; Bergerman, Marcel ; Magalhães, Mauricio F.

Author_Institution

Renato Archer Res. Center, Campinas, Brazil

Volume

46

Issue

1

fYear

2003

fDate

2/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

42

Abstract

This paper presents REAL (Remotely Accessible Laboratory), a virtual laboratory accessible through the Internet. The objective of REAL is to provide remote access to a mobile robots infrastructure. REAL has been implemented as a new generation telecommunication service, not as a commonplace World Wide Web (WWW) application. As such, it employs a sophisticated access framework, a communication infrastructure able to support multimedia flows, and a component-based software construction. The architecture of REAL relies on open standards, such as WWW and its related technologies (HTTP, HTML, XML, Java, etc.) and a common object request broker architecture (CORBA).

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; control engineering education; distance learning; distributed object management; mobile robots; student experiments; CORBA; REAL virtual laboratory; Remotely Accessible Laboratory; World Wide Web; access framework; common object request broker architecture; communication infrastructure; component-based software construction; mobile robot experiments; mobile robots infrastructure; multimedia flows; Application software; Computer architecture; HTML; Internet; Laboratories; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Telecommunication services; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TE.2002.804404

Filename

1183665