Remote Control Laboratory Based On LabVIEW

Abstract

This paper studied a remote control system based on the LabVIEW and ZLG PCI-5110 CAN card, in which students could perform experiments by remote control laboratory via the Internet. Due to the fact that the Internet becomes more integrated into our daily lives, several possibilities have arisen to use this cost-effective worldwide standard for distributing data. National Instruments LabVIEW is available to publish data from the development environment to the Web. The student can access the remote laboratory and perform experiments without any limitation of time and location. They can also observe the signals by changing the parameters of the experiment and evaluating the results. During the session, the teacher can watch and communicate with students who perform their experiment. The usefulness of remote laboratory in teaching environments is already known: it saves equipment, personnel for the institution and it saves time and money for the remote students. It also allows the same equipment to be used in research purposes by many teams, through Internet. The experiments proved the feasibility of technical solutions, as well as the correctness of implementation in this paper.