A Remote Lab in Engineering Measurement

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2009

Authors

Maria T. Restivo (Author) FEUP; Joaquim Mendes (Author) FEUP; António M. Lopes (Author) FEUP; Carlos M. Silva (Author) FEUP; Maria de Fátima Chouzal (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Vol. 56 No. 12

Pages: 4836-4843

ISSN: 0278-0046

Publisher: IEEE

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electronic engineering

Other information

Abstract (EN): On-line engineering practice is offering nowadays new potentials for training of measurement technologies and experimental procedures. In a Laboratory mainly devoted to Instrumentation for Measurement by “hands on” activity in engineering fields, students and engineering professionals are using, at present, on-line experiments in a blended-learning approach. A set of experiments has been designed and developed as well as some virtual simulators. The experiments integrated in a Moodle platform are using a web-server system based on LabVIEW 7.1, linked to them by data acquisition interface cards, a video server and a booking system developed as an extension of the Moodle platform. This work reports a particular set-up specially designed for remotely measuring and determining mechanical material properties, and its combination with the design of a highly interactive user interface. The user may remotely conduct the experiment, getting numerical, graphical and live video output information and receiving e-mailed experimental results.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific