Title :
Recent advances in remote experimentation
Author :
Gillet, Denis ; Salzmann, Christophe ; Latchman, Haniph A. ; Crisalle, Oscar D.
Author_Institution :
Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
Discusses challenges in meeting quality of service (QoS) requirements in a flexible learning context where students carry out hands-on sessions of remote experimentation on a physical system via the Internet. Novel solutions are developed to overcome the current lack of predictability of the Internet so that QoS can be improved via content adaptation to the available bandwidth. An augmented-reality approach is used to enhance the user perception of the remote system, and a unique simulation-based scheme is proposed to recover from packet losses. The approach is illustrated through the remote control of an inverted pendulum
Keywords :
Internet; client-server systems; control engineering education; distance learning; laboratories; quality of service; student experiments; telecontrol; QoS requirements; augmented-reality approach; content adaptation; hands-on sessions; inverted pendulum; packet losses; quality of service requirements; remote control; remote experimentation; simulation-based scheme; user perception; Bandwidth; Communication channels; Communication system control; Computer aided instruction; Discussion forums; Laboratories; Quality of service; Streaming media; User interfaces; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5519-9
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2000.878752
