Title :
RVLab: A server-side framework to build remote and virtual laboratories
Author :
Muros-Cobos, Jesus L. ; Holgado-Terriza, Juan A.
Author_Institution :
Software Eng. Dept., Univ. of Granada, Granada, Spain
Abstract :
Currently, virtual/remotes laboratories are often being built to improve learning and researching capabilities in some areas of knowledge. Generally these virtual/remotes laboratories are built from scratch again and again, instead of reusing software and hardware infrastructures. This paper presents a new framework, RVLab, to help developers building flexible and robust server-side virtual and remotes laboratories quickly. RVLab affords support for the basic requirements of these systems such as the user management or the resources (instruments and devices) reservation. Unlike other lab systems, RVLab is adapted to devices and instruments of any real laboratory due to a secure and robust mechanism that allows the remote execution of lab programs. Moreover, it improves the user interaction with real labs, providing a real-time visualization of experiments and lab instruments by means of the control of video camera placed into lab, and the transmission of video streaming with different quality to users.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; data visualisation; laboratory techniques; video cameras; video streaming; virtual instrumentation; RVLab; experiments; hardware infrastructures; lab instruments; real-time visualization; remote laboratories; server-side framework; software infrastructures; user management; video camera; video streaming; virtual laboratories; Instruments; Laboratories; Libraries; Protocols; Servers; Visualization; Wrapping;
Conference_Titel :
Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2012 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bilbao
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2540-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2541-7
DOI :
10.1109/REV.2012.6293161