An Internet-Based Control Engineering Laboratory

A remote laboratory on PID autotuning

“…A huge number of automatic control experiments is nowadays offered by remote laboratories, as witnessed by works such as Aktan et al (1996); Valera et al (2005); Aliane et al (2006), and many others; such resources are nowadays very important for control education at all levels (Dormido Bencomo, 2004). However, a very small minority of experiments available from remote laboratories is relative to the domain of autotuning, a notable exception being e.g.…”

Limitations of Remote Laboratories in Control Engineering Education

“…However, many laboratory pilot-scale models only admit the manual introduction of disturbances. For example, this is the case for the models used in our remote laboratory [18]: the temperature model is disturbed by manually opening the window or setting the external temperature, or the level model is disturbed by manually changing the outflow. This characteristic, which is present in many commercial models, makes it difficult for remote control engineering labs to offer experiments with disturbances.…”

“…In [2], the author raises the question about the effectiveness of remote labs, to which they do not provide a response. In this blurred context, however, our short experience in using remote labs has shown us several limitations intrinsic to remote experimentation in control education [14], [18].…”

Analysis of Students’ Personalized Learning and Engagement within a Cyberlearning System

“…Within the context of cyberlearning systems, only a few studies have indicated the integration of user-tracking capabilities with their cyberlearning system. Some virtual and remote labs (VRL) are integrated with LMS for collecting user-tracking data [37], [38]. For example, UNILAB, which is a collection of 15 remote and virtual labs on automatic control, was deployed into the Moodle LMS to promote online sharing of the lab resources, and to support the administration, maintenance, interaction between students and teachers, and reporting of various online events [39].…”