LABNET: A Remote Control Engineering Laboratory

Abstract

This paper presents LABNET, an internet-based remote laboratory for control engineering education developed at UEM-University. At present, the remote lab integrates three basic physical systems (level control, temperature control and ship stabilizing system). In this paper, the LABNET architecture is presented and discussed in detail. Issues concerned with concurrent user access, local or remote feedback, automatic report generating and reusing of experiment templates have been addressed. Furthermore, the experience gained developing, testing and using the system, are also presented.