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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Control and Automation (ICCA), 2011 9th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Santiago
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1475-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCA.2011.6138070
