Virtual laboratory for the study of technological process automation

• Autores: Daniela Perdukova, Pavol Fedor
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 29, no. 1, 2013, págs. 230-238
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper deals with the implementation of virtual reality technology as a higher level of e-learning education comes intothe teaching process. It presents the design and development of a Web-based virtual laboratory architecture that supportslaboratory training in the study of technological process automation. The proposed architecture provides severaladvantages to institutions offering e-learning and distance education courses in Industrial Automation. It facilitates theprocess of learning over the Internet by providing a Web-based user interface that allows remote users to access and controlseveral physical models of technological processes and also verify to control programs, which are also developed on thebasis of intelligent control methods, via a virtual model without damaging the system equipment. The architecturepresented in the paper is not dependent on a specific SLC hardware or software configuration and offers the possibility ofincreasing the efficiency of the pedagogical process and developing the students’ creativity, practical skills and proficiency,with an accent on the possibility of developing optional solutions in the field of automatic control of technological systems.