Standartization Use Case of Solid-State Laser Lab and RF&Microwave Amplifier Remote and Virtual Laboratories at Labicom
This paper outlines a demonstration of a few remote and virtual laboratories at Labicom platform that were built with accordance to main IEEE P1876™ ideas. A few standardization approaches at above mentioned remote and virtual laboratories are briefly discussed. These laboratories were presented at interactive Labicom demo session during REV'16 conference and published in conference proceedings under title "Labicom Labs: Remote and Virtual Solid-State Laser Lab, RF&Microwave Amplifier Remote and Virtual Lab. Interactive demonstration of Labicom labs in winter 2016".
The Mach-Zehnder Interferometer — A smart remote experiment based on a software template
Hands-on laboratory sessions are one of the pillars of science and engineering education. It is reputed that institutions find it difficult to provide enough laboratory setups that cover all taught scientific topics due to logistical and budgetary limitations. With the recent advances in web technologies enabling real-time interaction, remotely accessing physical devices became possible, and so the rise of remote experimentation as a solution to the mentioned limitations. The development and deployment of remote laboratories is still a tedious process for lab providers, given the need to write new applications for each new lab. In this paper, we propose a software template for lab providers that will alleviate some of their concerns by following the Smart Device Paradigm and Specifications and abiding to software engineering rules to produce a reusable and flexible solution. We will show how this in-progress template can be used for implementing a remote Mach-Zehnder Interferometer.
Labicom.net — Putting your laboratory online in less than five minutes with WebPager tool: Automatic generation and real-time control of a LabVIEW based laboratory server from pluginless HTML page
Most of currently existing laboratory servers of remote labs were built fully or partially with LabVIEW programming language from National Instruments. While proving to be the best tool for fast development of excellent SCADA and data acquisition applications, it appeared to be inadequate when it comes to deploying an application to the web. This paper and accompanying demonstration will show the tools that were used for accomplishing this task in the remote laboratories presented in other papers. The focus of this demonstration will be on WebPager tool from Labicom.net online laboratories platform. It will be shown that LabVIEW application serving as laboratory server can easily be deployed on the standard pluginless Web-page without any modifications in LabVIEW code with WebPager. Programming knowledge of any other language is not required. Automatically generated HTML5 pages of a modern look and real-time user interaction will be displayed. A few different LabVIEW front panels will be converted into web-pages in the course of demonstration.