Multiuser Environment for a Teleoperated Laboratory

Abstract In engineering education, concepts taught through lectures are often complemented by laboratory experimentation. This contribution presents a collaborative virtual environment for a teleoperated laboratory. Students have access to the teleoperated laboratory via Internet from anywhere at any time. They control the experiments exclusively with their standard Web browser, no additional software is needed. The collaborative environment allows the experimentation in a team. The group is able to interact and to discuss the results of their work. A real collaboration like in local experimentation is possible. The teleoperated laboratory is based on a client/server architecture, which is mainly implemented in the Java programming language.

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