Events & News
Colloquium
| Category | Lecture |
| Date | Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
| Time | 11:00 am |
| Location | Gould-Simpson 906 |
| Details | Light refreshments: 9th floor atrium area - 10:50 a.m. |
| Speaker | Eleri Cardozo |
| Title | Professor |
| Affiliation | ECE (FEEC) State University of Campinas (Unicamp) |
On the REALab project: Challenges and Solutions in Remote Lab Access for Distance Learning
Abstract: The design and implementation of remote laboratories present different levels of complexity according to the nature of the equipments operated remotely, the requirements imposed on the accessing computers, the network linking the user to the laboratory, and the type of experiments the laboratory supports. This presentation addresses the design and implementation of remote laboratories employing Web technologies, both at the client and the server side. These types of remote laboratories are called WebLabs, and can be deployed over different networks such as the public internet, campus-wide networks, or high-speed private networks. Although most published works on WebLabs focus on their functional and operational aspects, non-functional requirements related to security, quality of service, and federated operation of WebLabs have received little attention.
This presentation addresses how these requirements can be incorporated into WebLab design, and discusses the most appropriate Web technologies to fulfill such requirements. In particular, the talk will describe the REALab project. Using a variety of services accessible from the programming environment, it is possible to monitor and act on the remote experiments, such as a robotic laboratory, and enable students to develop a wide range of tests and evaluate them in a simulated environment before putting them in action. Students and researchers from different institutions can experiments with mobile robots, interacting and accessing data they collect. This project consists of REALabs researchers from 5 various Brazilian institutions, including the Center for Information Technology Renato Archer (CTI), Faculty of Electrical and Computing Engineering (FEEC/ Unicamp), Institute of Airforce Technology (ITA), the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) and Federal University of Uberlandia (UFU).