MATLAB Web Server Research Articles

Computer-Aided Education: Experiences with Matlab Web Server and Java

Teaching material has recently become increasingly available on the Web. However, reading text and looking at static images is not very motivating when compared to hands-on experimenting. The latter may also provide the student with deeper understanding of the subject. Two tools for creating interactive mathemat¬ical teaching material on the Web are discussed: With the MATLAB Web Server one can create easily Web pages that call MATLAB functions and scripts. Java applets are much more time consuming to implement, but they are advantageous in e.g. simulations and other “real-time” applications. The two technologies can be used together to combine their advantages.

Computer Simulation Supporting Control Engineering Teaching

Teaching is a very complex and demanding human activity. The computers together with network technology have made it possible to utilise computer based learning material for supporting the teaching of control engineering. This has been found also at the Control Engineering in the University of Oulu, where computer based learning material called CALEXX has been developed during many years. Especially interactive examples, animations and simulations make the understanding of control engineering illustrative and easier, because the students can “experiment” with situations, which would be too expensive or too dangerous in real life.Different computer simulators have been developed for examining the operation and control of different processes as rotary drying in mining and mineral industry, plate rolling mill in steel industry, freeness control in grinding mill in pulp industry and PVC manufacturing in chemical industry. The simulators are running in a Windows PC in the MATLAB or MATLAB Web Server environments. The simulators are an important part of the training material CALEXX.

A GLOBAL APPROACH FOR THE REMOTE PROCESS SIMULATION AND CONTROL

Systems Engineering and Control teaching has a problem in common with other technical studies when distance learning is required: laboratory lectures. It is related to the studied concepts in the area and the requirement of using specific software tools (i.e. Matlab) and process.This paper presents a global approach for the remote process simulation and real control using Matlab Web Server (MWS) tool. This work allows the execution of Matlab developed applications from any remote computer having a Web browser. The server obtains configuration parameters from a Web page and runs M-file Matlab programs. Once the simulation or the real process control has finished, MWS returns the output results to the remote computer through a new Web Page.

A DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE IN MODELLING AND SIMULATION

The paper describes web-based distance learning material for a course in modelling and simulation. The course covers topics like systems and models, physical modelling, system identification, and simulation. An essential part of the material are interactive demos that are implemented with Matlab, Simulink and Matlab Web Server.

MATLAB web server and its application in remote collaborative design of magnetic bearing systems

Acclimatizing itself to the development of network,Math Works Inc constructed a MATLAB Web Server environment by dint of which one can browse the calculation and plots of MATLAB through Internet directly.The installation and use of the environment is introduced.A code established on the platform of MATLAB,which deals with the modal analysis of magnetic bearing system(MBS) supporting rotors of five degrees of freedom and considering the coupling of thrust bearing with radical bearings is modified to work in the environment.The purpose is to realize a remote call of the code by users through Internet for the performance analysis of the system.Such an application is very important to the concurrent design of MBS and for the utilization of distributive knowledge acquisition resources in collaborative design.The work on modification and realization is described and the results are discussed.