The Ball and Beam System: A Case Study of Virtual and Remote Lab Enhancement With Moodle

Torre, Luís de la; Guinaldo, María; Heradio, Rubén; Dormido, Sebastián

doi:10.1109/tii.2015.2443721

Cited by 105 publications

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“…Among the 726 articles found, the following criteria were conducted to filter the literature by scanning the titles and reading the abstracts: (1) only articles focusing on remote laboratories were retained. For example, some articles were deleted because their foci were on simulated laboratories (Scalise et al, 2011;Stang, Barker, Perez, Ives, & Roll, 2016) (2) articles on engineeringrelated education instead of science were deleted (Corter, Esche, Chassapis, Ma, & Nickerson, 2011;Kamruzzaman, Wang, Jiang, He, & Liu, 2015) (3) articles that did not address education-related problems were not retained (Botero et al, 2016;de la Torre, Guinaldo, Heradio, & Dormido, 2015;Orduña et al, 2015) (4) only research papers were retained while review articles and book chapters were not included; articles (5) which were not related to laboratory learning, but in a broader range of distance education were not included. After the selection, only four articles were retained.…”

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Understanding interactions in face-to-face and remote undergraduate science laboratories: a literature review

Wei

Treagust

Mocerino

et al. 2019

Discip Interdscip Sci Educ Res

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This paper reviews the ways in which interactions have been studied, and the findings of such studies, in science education in both face-to-face and remote laboratories. Guided by a systematic selection process, 27 directly relevant articles were analysed based on three categories: the instruments used for measuring interactions, the research findings on student interactions, and the theoretical frameworks used in the studies of student interactions. In face-to-face laboratories, instruments for measuring interactions and the characterisation of the nature of interactions were prominent. For remote laboratories, the analysis of direct interactions was found to be lacking. Instead, studies of remote laboratories were mainly concerned with their practical scope. In addition, it is found that only a limited number of theoretical frameworks have been developed and applied in the research design. Existent theories are summarised and possible theoretical frameworks that may be implemented in studies of interactions in undergraduate laboratories are proposed. Finally, future directions for research on the interrelationship between student interactions and laboratory learning are suggested.

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Section: Selection Process Of Articlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding interactions in face-to-face and remote undergraduate science laboratories: a literature review

Wei

Treagust

Mocerino

et al. 2019

Discip Interdscip Sci Educ Res

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“…Therefore, at each sampling period, the received data, are represented and are written in a Matlab file. The communication between the EasyJava tool and the SCADA of the real system is performed by the JilServer tool . More specifically, the sampling period of this system is equal to one second for both acquiring and send data.…”

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Development of an open experimentation tool based on JavaScript for the control of a four‐tank plant

Perez-Castro

Moreno

Castilla

2017

Comp Applic In Engineering

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At present, one of the main problems which can be found within chemical engineering education is the availability of real industrial plants able to provide an experimentation framework. The importance of this kind of plants lies in allowing students to apply the learned theoretical concepts to solve real problems. In this paper, a remote tool for educational purposes is presented. More specifically, the implementation of a four‐tank plant, its internal control design and the implementation of an EasyJava tool for executing JavaScript code in both simulation and real experimental tests have been widely described. As a result, a tool that allows to perform experimental tests over the plant in both real and simulation modes has been obtained. In this tool, the limits of use are imposed by the plant and not by the own tool.

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“…FLC as part of a RL for programming robots is reported in [66]; the HTML and C languages are used. In [67,68], a ball and beam system is subjected to four different control laws: PD, robust control, fuzzy control and reset control. The RL is developed with EJS, LabVIEW and a DAQ.…”

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Novel Networked Remote Laboratory Architecture for Open Connectivity Based on PLC-OPC-LabVIEW-EJS Integration. Application in Remote Fuzzy Control and Sensors Data Acquisition

González

Martín

Mejías

et al. 2016

Sensors

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In this paper the design and implementation of a network for integrating Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), the Object-Linking and Embedding for Process Control protocol (OPC) and the open-source Easy Java Simulations (EJS) package is presented. A LabVIEW interface and the Java-Internet-LabVIEW (JIL) server complete the scheme for data exchange. This configuration allows the user to remotely interact with the PLC. Such integration can be considered a novelty in scientific literature for remote control and sensor data acquisition of industrial plants. An experimental application devoted to remote laboratories is developed to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of the proposed approach. The experiment to be conducted is the parameterization and supervision of a fuzzy controller of a DC servomotor. The graphical user interface has been developed with EJS and the fuzzy control is carried out by our own PLC. In fact, the distinctive features of the proposed novel network application are the integration of the OPC protocol to share information with the PLC and the application under control. The user can perform the tuning of the controller parameters online and observe in real time the effect on the servomotor behavior. The target group is engineering remote users, specifically in control- and automation-related tasks. The proposed architecture system is described and experimental results are presented.

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The Ball and Beam System: A Case Study of Virtual and Remote Lab Enhancement With Moodle

Cited by 105 publications

References 56 publications

Understanding interactions in face-to-face and remote undergraduate science laboratories: a literature review

Understanding interactions in face-to-face and remote undergraduate science laboratories: a literature review

Development of an open experimentation tool based on JavaScript for the control of a four‐tank plant

Novel Networked Remote Laboratory Architecture for Open Connectivity Based on PLC-OPC-LabVIEW-EJS Integration. Application in Remote Fuzzy Control and Sensors Data Acquisition

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