NetLab Online Remote Laboratory Progress Report

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NetLab Online Remote Laboratory Progress Report

• Presenter Jan Machotka

School of Electrical and Information Engineering
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Why Online Remote Laboratory?

• Hands-on experience is important for students
• Real experiments in the laboratory
• Expensive
• Involve risks
• Time limitations
• Complex timetabling
• Supervision
• Virtual Environment - Not Satisfactory Replacement

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Why Online Remote Laboratory?

• Solution Online Remote Laboratory
• Experiments on real equipment accessed remotely
  from anywhere anytime
• Has all advantages of online delivery
• Camera allows students to be in the laboratory
• Students obtain real measurement data
• Second best to being there (SBBT)
• Competition
• A number of universities are developing such
  facilities
• Not many examples yet
• More in the future

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Progress Summary

• Significant progress on the project has been
  made
• Project team formed
• Project web page established http//www.unisa.edu
  .au/eie/netlab/
• Hardware
• Software
• Conceptual design
• 1st experiment
• Expected to be finalized on time (end of this
  year)
• Trial with a selected group of students this
  year
• Trial with real students next year

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Progress Summary

• Cost estimate
• 12,000 Scholarship for a Masters Student
• 22,000 Hardware and Software
• 6,000 Other (conference attendance, teaching
  time release, etc.)
• Progress review meetings on weekly basis

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Attention Areas

• Presentation of the project
• Postponed due to illness
• Project Advisory Group Meetings
• To be established (after the presentation?)
• Help is expected from FLC and ISTS unit in areas
• Access authentication linked to UniSAnet
• Signing of the client software ?
• Mainstreaming

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Project Team
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Project Team
Jan Machotka, Zorica Nedic
Prof. Lakhmi Jain and Dr David Cropley
Supervisors
Nikhil Ichalkaranje Associate Supervisor
Hoang Thanh Vo Postgraduate student
Clinton Mark Undergraduate student
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System Design
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User Interface
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Software Design
NetLab Server PC
JAVA Environment
UniSA Web Server Host for Web page (for
experiments) CGI program for user authentication
Remote Client User Interface
LabVIEW Environment
Internet
Instruments
Remote Client User Interface
Web Camera Live video broadcasted
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Basic Specifications of the System

• System should give access only to registered
  users
• A user should be able
• to book time slots (min 30min ) for each
  experiment
• to access and control remote real equipment from
  anywhere via the Internet
• to download measurement data for analysis
• to observe the experiment via a Web digital
  camera
• to communicate with other users online

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Deliverables

• Final Report including Evaluation Report
• Server Program
• Client Java Applet
• Instruction manual for developing other
  experiments

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