Open and Low-Cost Virtual and Remote Labs on Control Engineering

Author

Saenz, Jacobo ; Chacon, Jesus ; de la Torre, Luis ; Visioli, Antonio ; Dormido, Sebastian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Autom. Control, Nat. Univ. of Distance Educ., Madrid, Spain

Volume

3

fYear

2015

fDate

2015

Firstpage

805

Lastpage

814

Abstract

This paper presents an open course in the University Network of Interactive Laboratories, which offers several virtual and remote laboratories on automatic control, accessible to anyone. All the details on one of these labs (a two electric coupled drives system that allows performing control practices in a 2 × 2 MIMO system with industrial applications) and the activities that can be performed with it are given. We use a low-cost solution for developing the virtual and remote labs shared in this open course, based on the use of a free authoring tool Easy Java/Javascript Simulations (EJsS) for building the laboratories´ user interfaces and a cheap development platform board (BeagleBone Black). The virtual and remote labs are deployed into a free Learning Management System (Moodle) Web environment that facilitates their management and maintenance.

Keywords

control engineering computing; control engineering education; distance learning; laboratories; learning management systems; BeagleBone Black; EJsS; Easy Java/Javascript Simulations; MIMO system; Moodle; University Network of Interactive Laboratories; automatic control; control engineering; development platform board; electric coupled drives system; learning management system Web environment; open course; remote labs; virtual labs; Control systems; Distance education; Engineering education; Remote laboratories; Virtual laboratories; Control engineering education; Control systems; Distance education; Remote laboratories; control engineering education; control systems; remote laboratories;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Access, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2169-3536

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2442613

Filename

7119567