About the Book
The World-Wide Web has revolutionized educational institutions. Control education is an area that has been enhanced through web developments; an initiative to experiment and incorporate web-based technologies led to the birth of Web-Based Simulation (WBS). Control education is typically a domain where Web-based simulation successfully shows its potential of how current technology can support the sharing of information amongst large dispersed groups. This title is based around the proceedings of an IFAC meeting specifically devoted to Internet based control education. It provided a forum for discussions around issues such as: remote labs, virtual labs, teleoperation, centralized Internet repository for control education, Internet based control systems materials, and virtual reality in control education. The text illuminates developments and advances in the use of the World-Wide Web in control education, and presents many open issues for laboratory control education over the Internet.
Table of Contents:
Selected papers. Web based educational environment I: multiagent system for distance laboratory simulation, C. Romero, et al; Prolern - a project-oriented approach to teaching of control engineering, Chr. Schmid, et al; development of an electronic reference & consulting tool in standardization, calibration and industrial control, A. Hilario et al; collaborative problem solving project in remote diagnosis, S. Ploix, F. Michau. Remote control laboratories I: contribution to the definition of best practices for the implementation of remote experimentation solutions, X. Vilalta, et al; remote control systems laboratory, P.M.A. Silva, et al; teleoperation of an inverted pendulum through the World Wide Web, J. Sanchez et al; connection pilot plant to the Internet, M. Dominguez, et al. Controller design: supporting introductory control courses via Internet - demos by MATLAB/SIMULINK/JAVA applets, R. Bars, et al; JCONTROL - a java-learning tool for the design of basic controllers, T. Alvarez, et al; an instructor station applied to a distributed process-training simulator, M.A. Garcia, R. Alves; evolutionary development from simulation teachware towards multimedia and automated education, M. Braee; et al. Mobile robots: on the control of a remote legged robot via Internet - a first approach, A. Benali, V. Idasiak; virtual reality for tele-education experiments with remote mobile robot hardware. M. Perez, K. Schilling; a multi-user environment for remote experimentation in control education, A. Bischoff, C. R hrig; design of a remote laboratory on mobile robots, F. Rodriguez, et al. Matlab Web Server: remote lab for control applications using MATLAB, R. Puerto, et al; HADOC, an Internet based environment for control learning, S. Gentil, et al; WWW-based control training using SciLab, J. Jugo, et al; remote industrial process control with Matlab web server, J.L. Diez, et al. Web based educational environment I: a versatile and interactive courseware for learning control systems, J.A. Lopez-Orozco, et al; courseware generator for automatic control learning through internet, E. Gomez, et al; a web-based system for a control engineering tutorial, M.J. Fuente; et al. Teleoperation: moving eye - teaching mechatronics and telerobotics by the aid of a mobile ball shaped robot, P. Harmo, et al; the innovative educational concepts in autonomous and teleoperated systems (IECAT) project at Utah State University, R. Fullmer; virtual laboratory for robotics and automation, F. Torres, et al; bilateral control of teleoperators with time-delay - stability analysis, J.M. Azorin, et al. Remote control laboratories II: Related - a framework to publish web-based laboratory control systems , R. Pastor, et al; Titere - a new remote physical scenario for computer vision self-learning through Internet, J.M. Sebastian et al; Internet in the development of off-site practicals with industrial processes, C. Ramos, et al. (Part contents).
