Remote laboratory experimentation

Author

Shaheen, Mohamed ; Loparo, Kenneth A. ; Buchner, Marcus R.

Author_Institution

Rosemount Analytical Inc., Orrville, OH, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

21-26 Jun 1998

Firstpage

1326

Abstract

The aim of this work is to provide the students of both Case Western Reserve and Cooper Union Universities with remote access to the Bytronic Process Control unit, referred to as the process rig, in the Process Control and Automation Laboratory at Case Western Reserve University over the Internet. Using a web browser, the user can log-in parameters from a remote client to a LabVIEW G web server which is connected to the process rig via a PLC control module. When the server receives a request specifying a Common Gateway Interface Virtual Instrument (CGI VI), the server loads the VI and starts its execution. The CGI then reads the information that came with the request, controls the operation of the process rig in accordance with the parameters posted by the user and writes the data that is to be returned to the client. The output data files are also uploaded to an anonymous ftp-site from which the user can download them for further processing

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; computer aided instruction; control engineering education; process control; student experiments; Bytronic Process Control unit; Case Western Reserve University; Common Gateway Interface Virtual Instrument; Cooper Union University; Internet; LabVIEW G web server; PLC control module; anonymous ftp-site; remote access; remote laboratory experimentation; web browser; Automatic control; Computer interfaces; Educational institutions; HTML; Instruments; Internet; Laboratories; Process control; Programmable control; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4530-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.1998.703629

Filename

703629