PEMCWebLab - Distance and virtual laboratories in electrical engineering: Development and trends

The paper deals with basic philosophy and structure of remote controlled laboratory for experimentation in electrical engineering. The laboratory collects experiments from fields of power electronics, electrical machines, electro-mechanical and motion control systems. The workbenches in the real laboratory are used over Internet. The real experiments of the remote controlled laboratory are placed at various universities. A special care is devoted to preparation of the learners to experimentation, including examining their knowledge before joining to the experiment. To have a feeling of participation in the experiment, except of the measurement data, also the signal from Web camera is transferred to a distance operator.

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