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Abstract
A remote laboratories system built at the University of Western Australia provides a useful learning environment for mechatronics skills, particularly the combination of technical skills and project management. The remote laboratories framework was designed with this in mind and overcomes one of the main limitations of other approaches that seems to account for the difficulties in real implementations: the cost and complexity of technical support needed for development and maintenance. The students learning in the context of the project develop these skills. ...
Keywords:
Remote laboratories, internet, mechatronics, professional engineering skills, team skills, technical skills. ... INTRODUCTION
Many remote on-line lab experiments have been reported in the literature recently (for recent surveys see [5,6]). ... It is important to emphasise that this paper is entirely concerned with remote access to real equipment. ...
Presented at Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 2003 Conference,Perth, Western Australia, December 2003What has been learned from these pioneering efforts? ... We surveyed 61 remote lab projects in May 2003 and found 21 had disappeared or become non-functioning. ... Several new remote labs are under construction at the time of writing, particularly in Western Australia, the USA, Germany and UK [1, 13 etc. ... Most current projects have devoted more resources to a remote lab framework: a set of tools that enable many different remote labs to be deployed without large additional investment in software and expertise. At the same time, the ready availability of commercial software has enabled many smaller institutions to set up remote labs on an individual basis.
Approximate Word count = 1176
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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