• DocumentCode
    3139670
  • Title

    A low cost, scalable, virtual control laboratory

  • Author

    Arora, Inderpreet ; Moudgalya, Kannan M. ; Venkata, Kaushik ; Chakraborty, Victor ; Rokade, Rupak ; Rakhi, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Eaton India Eng. Center, Eaton Corp., Pune, India
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    19-21 Dec. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1139
  • Lastpage
    1144
  • Abstract
    This work presents a virtual control laboratory, based on a single board heater system and free and open source software, such as Scilab, Xcos, Java, PHP/MySQL and GNU/Linux. This solution allows of the order of 20 devices to be handled by a single Server PC. It allows many students to carry out control experiments remotely. It has been extensively tested in two control courses at IIT Bombay. Results of a few experiments, conducted remotely, using this setup are presented.
  • Keywords
    Java; Linux; SQL; computer aided instruction; control engineering education; educational courses; laboratories; public domain software; GNU; IIT Bombay; Java; Linux; MySQL; PHP; Scilab; Xcos; control courses; open source software; single board heater system; virtual control laboratory; Computer architecture; Computers; Heating; Internet; Java; Servers; Streaming media;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control and Automation (ICCA), 2011 9th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Santiago
  • ISSN
    1948-3449
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1475-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCA.2011.6138070
  • Filename
    6138070