| author | = | {M. Kal\'uz and {\v{L}}. {\v{C}}irka and R. Valo and M. Fikar}, |
| title | = | {ArPi Lab: A Low-cost Remote Laboratory for Control Education}, |
| booktitle | = | {Preprints of the 19th IFAC World Congress Cape Town (South Africa) August 24 - August 29, 2014}, |
| year | = | {2014}, |
| keyword | = | {Remote laboratory, Control education, Raspberry Pi, Arduino}, |
| annote | = | {In this paper, we present a cost effective approach to remote experimentation. We propose ArPi Lab -- remote laboratory for education in area of process control. This lab is built on very cheap hardware components, including single-board computers Raspberry Pi and open prototyping platforms Arduino based on 8-bit micro-controllers. This approach combines several different software technologies. These are HTML 5 and JavaScript for client-side application, PHP and MySQL for laboratory server implementation, JSON as structure for data transfer, and C language for experiment server and micro-controller programming. ArPi Lab provides three different types of educational physical systems. Three thermal plants, one magnetic levitation, and one hydraulic tank system are available for remote laboratory experiments. Each part of ArPi Lab's hardware architecture can be controlled in the meaning of power supply. For this purpose we propose an efficient power management model, designed to solve occasional hardware and communication failures in such kind of laboratories, where physical absence of supervising person can result in serious malfunctions or security issues.}, |
| url | = | {https://www.uiam.sk/assets/publication_info.php?id_pub=1529} |
}