Development of an access-by-the-Internet control laboratory

The paper reports on the on-going development of a control laboratory that can be accessed remotely through the Internet. This laboratory currently consists of a few sets of signal generator/oscilloscope experiments, five Feedback 33-002 Analogue Fundamentals Trainers, and five Feedback 33-003 Digital Servo Fundamentals Trainers. The key tasks involved in the development of this laboratory include the interface between the physical instruments for experiment with computers that are connected to the Internet, creation of virtual instrument panels on the remote computers from which the experiment is run, and the streaming to the remote computers of the real time video that captures what is actually happening in the physical laboratory.