A Remote Laboratory in Engineering Measurement

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

Authors

Maria T Restivo (Author) FEUP; Joaquim Mendes (Author) FEUP; Antonio M Lopes (Author) Other; Carlos M Silva (Author) Other; Fatima Chouzal (Author) Other

Journal

Title: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Vol. 56 No. 12

Pages: 4836-4843

ISSN: 0278-0046

Publisher: IEEE

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 110 Citations

Scopus - 145 Citations

Scientific classification

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

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-DYA

DOI: 10.1109/tie.2008.2011479

Abstract (EN): Online 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, online 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 paper reports a particular setup 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

No. of pages: 8