Combining Virtual and Remote Interactive Labs and Visual/Textual Programming: The Furuta Pendulum Experience
This paper proposes a new way of experimenting with online (virtual or remote) interactive laboratories. Experimentation possibilities can be opened by allowing students to interact with the online laboratory using a visual and textual programming language that can communicate with the laboratory application and which includes tools to define and plot graphs. The combination of interactive laboratories with a visual and textual programming language, benefits both teachers and students: the former have a wider range of possibilities when considering the assignments that can be proposed and the latter acquire a greater knowledge of the plant under study by facing a more inquiry-based approach for online experimentation. To demonstrate the usefulness and possibilities of this environment, a Furuta pendulum system has been successfully used in both its remote and its virtual version.
During this thesis work a coupled thermo-mechanical finite element model (FEM) was builtto simulate hot rolling in the blooming mill at Sandvik Materials Technology (SMT) inSandviken. The blooming ...