CORBA and Web technologies applied to long distance learning

Author

Fonte, Alexandre J P D ; Metrolho, José Carlos

Author_Institution

Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2131

Abstract

Recent growth in the Word Wide Web (WWW), Java and distributed object oriented technologies (e.g. CORBA) has received significant attention as means to provide a distributed infrastructure for computing and sharing of sophisticated and expensive laboratory equipment in computer engineering courses. This paper presents a CORBA-based toolkit integrated with the Web to allow the monitoring and experiment of a digital pendulum system in a class laboratory or with other educational institutions. A simple and easy-to-use Web graphical user interface (GUI) was developed to help students in the use of default control algorithms during lab experiences

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; control engineering computing; control engineering education; distance learning; distributed object management; educational courses; graphical user interfaces; information resources; student experiments; CAI; CORBA; Java; Web technologies; Word Wide Web; computer engineering courses; control algorithms; digital pendulum system; distributed infrastructure; distributed object oriented technologies; educational institutions; graphical user interface; lab experiences; long-distance learning; students; Computer aided instruction; Computer languages; Control systems; Graphical user interfaces; Java; Laboratories; PD control; Pi control; Programming profession; Proportional control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, 2001. IECON '01. The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7108-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2001.975622

Filename

975622