Enhancing the Internet-Based Control in Teaching Laboratories Using Software Agents

This paper presents a laboratory for remote automatic control via Internet. This distributed laboratory (DLAB) is located at POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest (PUB). The control architectures are based on advanced communication technologies, distributed measurement systems, and virtual instrumentation. Software agents are assisting the users in performing their activity. The results obtained so far strongly suggest that remote collaborative experimentation mediated by software agents is an efficient and necessary tool of a new era in control engineering. Copyright  2001 IFAC