An application - a web-based electrical drives laboratory: Objectives, structure and experiments

Modern information and communication technologies have changed the concept of laboratory experiment practice and learning the related theories. New terms like ¿e-learning¿, ¿remote laboratories¿, ¿virtual learning environments¿, etc. have emerged. To follow the mainstream and improve practical aspects of education, remotely controlled electrical drives laboratories have been designed at Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) where students can make experiments on real objects. Designing a remote laboratory presumes finding solutions to problems regarding technical, didactic, security and financial requirements as well as the integration into a wider distant learning environment. These requirements provide a basis for laboratory structures and methodology to be explained in this paper.