Grid Supported Virtual Laboratories with Collaboration in Engineering Education

Christian Schmid

In this paper, Grid technologies are introduced to build e-learning environments for virtual laboratories. Service-oriented Grids open new fields of applications, the Learning Grids. The learning services concept and their deployment through Grid technologies are excellent means to integrate virtual laboratories into collaborative e-learning environments for engineering education. Example applications from a virtual laboratory demonstrate the advantages of a Grid over classical solutions.

Design and Verification of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits in a Network of Remote Labs

Danilo Garbi Zutin, Michael E. Auer and A.Y. Al-Zoubi

A solution to implement a remote laboratory for testing and designing analog Application-Specific Integrated Circuits of the type (ispPAC10) is presented. The application allows electrical engineering students to access and perform measurements and conduct analog electronics experiments over the internet. PAC-Designer software, running on a Citrix server, is used in the circuit design in which the signals are generated and the responses are acquired by a data acquisition board controlled by LabVIEW. Three interconnected remote labs located in three different continents will be implementing the proposed system.

Towards a Distributed Architecture for Remote Laboratories

Javier García-Zubia, Pablo Orduña, Ignacio Angulo, Jaime Irurzun and Unai Hernández

Traditionally, Remote Laboratories have been focused on specific solutions for specific problems. We can find a wide range of Remote Laboratories in the literature [1], assisting very different types of subjects (electronics, robotics, optics, fluids mechanics...), but commonly bound to those restricted set of requirements.

Because of this, little attention has been paid on working on a scalable, maintainable, secure, open architecture that addresses the requirements of a wide set of experiments, and that could be open enough to support or adapt itself to new experiments.

In this paper we propose an open architecture for Remote Laboratories, based on the experience of the development, deployment and use by students of the newest version of the Remote Laboratory of the University of Deusto (WebLab-Deusto v. 3.0), which applies the Service Oriented Architecture to the Remote Laboratories design, protocol-agnostic scalable secure solution for a wide range of experiments.