Title :
CORBA and Web technologies applied to long distance learning
Author :
Fonte, Alexandre J P D ; Metrolho, José Carlos
Author_Institution :
Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Abstract :
Recent growth in the Word Wide Web (WWW), Java and distributed object oriented technologies (e.g. CORBA) has received significant attention as means to provide a distributed infrastructure for computing and sharing of sophisticated and expensive laboratory equipment in computer engineering courses. This paper presents a CORBA-based toolkit integrated with the Web to allow the monitoring and experiment of a digital pendulum system in a class laboratory or with other educational institutions. A simple and easy-to-use Web graphical user interface (GUI) was developed to help students in the use of default control algorithms during lab experiences
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer science education; control engineering computing; control engineering education; distance learning; distributed object management; educational courses; graphical user interfaces; information resources; student experiments; CAI; CORBA; Java; Web technologies; Word Wide Web; computer engineering courses; control algorithms; digital pendulum system; distributed infrastructure; distributed object oriented technologies; educational institutions; graphical user interface; lab experiences; long-distance learning; students; Computer aided instruction; Computer languages; Control systems; Graphical user interfaces; Java; Laboratories; PD control; Pi control; Programming profession; Proportional control;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, 2001. IECON '01. The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7108-9
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2001.975622
