Telepresence: An opportunity to develop real-world experimentation in education

Author

Gillet, D. ; Salzmann, C. ; Longchamp, R. ; Bonvin, D.

Author_Institution

Inst. d´Autom., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1997

fDate

1-7 July 1997

Firstpage

1646

Lastpage

1651

Abstract

A would-be autodidact can nowadays find educational material in the form of printed documents or digital supports, or it can access it via the Internet. In the field of automatic control, these media only carry virtual information, i.e., they do not provide real-world equipment. This drawback is the last obstacle to a possible "virtual campus". The aim of this paper is to present an approach for remote experimentation and to stress its educational and economic benefits. Remote PID control of an electrical drive illustrates the applicability of the approach.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; student experiments; telecontrol; three-term control; virtual reality; Internet access; automatic control; digital supports; economic benefits; educational benefits; educational material; electrical drive; printed documents; real-world experimentation; remote PID control; remote experimentation; telepresence; virtual campus; virtual information; Computers; Process control; Real-time systems; Servers; Software; Streaming media; User interfaces; Education; PID control; real-time simulation; remote experimentation; telepresence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Conference (ECC), 1997 European

Conference_Location

Brussels

Print_ISBN

978-3-9524269-0-6

Type

conf

Filename

7082339