Experimenting in PILAR federation: A common path for the future

García-Loro, Félix; Macho, Alejandro; Cristóbal, Elio San; Díaz, Gabriel; Castro, Manuel; Kulesza, Wlodek; Gustavsson, Ingvar; Nilsson, Kristian; Fidalgo, André; Alves, Gustavo R.; Marques, Arcelina; Hernández-Jayo, Unai; García-Zubía, Javier; Kreiter, Christian; Oros, Ramona Georgiana; Pester, Andreas; Garbi-Zutin, Danilo; Auer, Michael; Garcia-Hernandez, Carla; Tavio, Ricardo; Valtonen, Kati; Lehtikangas, Elina

doi:10.1109/educon.2018.8363413

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“…The need for a federation of VISIR systems has been dealt with previously by the consortium [10]- [13]. The main reasons are based on scalability, availability and economical optimization:…”

Section: A Journey From An Island To a Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

PILAR: Sharing VISIR Remote Labs Through a Federation

García-Loro

Cristóbal

Díaz

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

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Social demands have promoted an educational approach based on an "anywhere and anytime" premise. Remote laboratories have emerged as the answer to the demands of technical educational areas for adapting themselves to this scenario. The result has not only benefit distance learning students but has provided new learning scenarios both for teachers and students as well as allowing a flexible approach to experimental topics. However, as any other solution for providing practical scenarios (hands-on labs, virtual labs or simulators), remote labs face several constraints inherited from the subsystems of its deployment hardware (real instruments, equipment and scenario) and software (analog/digital conversions, communications, workbenches, etc.) . This paper describes the Erasmus+ project Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR (PILAR) which deals with several units of the federation installed in different educational institutions and devoted to analog electronics and electrical circuits. Based on the limitations of remote labs, the need for the federation will be justified and its benefits will be described.

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Section: A Journey From An Island To a Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

PILAR: Sharing VISIR Remote Labs Through a Federation

García-Loro

Cristóbal

Díaz

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

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“…• Number of component boards: In [30] the authors describe these limitations. To summarize, all of them derive from the maximum number of components that a VISIR system can house.…”

Section: Pilarmentioning

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“…This experiment requires, at least, 5 DIL relays and 5 SIL relays. To summarize, in [30] authors highlight the need for a federation due to the difference between a switching relay matrix typical storage capacity and a typical electronic components store.…”

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PILAR: a Federation of VISIR Remote Laboratory Systems for Educational Open Activities

García-Loro

Cristóbal

Díaz

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)

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Social demands have promoted an educational approach based on an "anywhere and anytime" premise. Remote laboratories have emerged as the answer to the demands of technical educational areas for adapting themselves to this scenario. The result has not only benefit distance learning students but has provided new learning scenarios both for teachers and students as well as allowing a flexible approach to experimental topics. However, as any other solution for providing practical scenarios (hands-on labs, virtual labs or simulators), remote labs face several constraints inherited from the subsystems of its deployment  hardware (real instruments, equipment and scenario) and software (analog/digital conversions, communications, workbenches, etc.). This paper describes the Erasmus+ project Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR (PILAR) which deals with several units of the federation installed in different educational institutions and devoted to analog electronics and electrical circuits. Based on the limitations of remote labs, the need for the federation will be justified and its benefits will be described by taking advantage of its strengths. The challenges that have come up during the different stages and the different approaches to design are also going to be described and analyzed.

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“…The system has been successfully installed by several universities (and university alliances) around the globe; e.g. the European PILAR federation (Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of VISIR) [6].…”

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Introducing Remote Laboratory Equipment to Circuits - Concepts, Possibilities, and First Experiences

May¹,

Trudgen²,

Spain³

2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Transformations Institute and conducts research on online as well as intercultural engineering education. In his work, he focuses on developing broader educational strategies for the design and use of online engineering equipment, putting these into practice and provide the evidence base for further development efforts. Moreover, he is developing instructional concepts to bring students into international study contexts so that they can experience intercultural collaboration and develop respective competences. Dr. May is Vice President of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), which is an international non-profit organization with the objective of encouraging the wider development, distribution and application of Online Engineering (OE) technologies and its influence to the society. Furthermore Dr. May serves as Editor-in-Chief for the 'International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)' with the aim to promote the interdisciplinary discussion of engineers, educators and engineering education researchers around technology, instruction and research.

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Experimenting in PILAR federation: A common path for the future

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PILAR: Sharing VISIR Remote Labs Through a Federation

PILAR: Sharing VISIR Remote Labs Through a Federation

PILAR: a Federation of VISIR Remote Laboratory Systems for Educational Open Activities

Introducing Remote Laboratory Equipment to Circuits - Concepts, Possibilities, and First Experiences

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