Cloud-based remote virtual prototyping platform for embedded control applications: Cloud-based infrastructure for large-scale embedded hardware-related programming laboratories

Werner, Stephan; Lauber, Andreas; Becker, J.; Sax, Eric

doi:10.1109/rev.2016.7444459

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“…The Arduino platform is considered by experts to be the perfect tool for approaching the development of embedded systems [33], [34]. Despite the low cost of development systems based on this platform, having a remote laboratory provides the educator with an approachable tool that offers total abstraction of the hardware and facilitates access to the software development cycle required by the technology [35].…”

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Improving the Scalability and Replicability of Embedded Systems Remote Laboratories Through a Cost-Effective Architecture

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Online remote laboratories are a particularly promising tool for effective STEM education. They offer online universal access to different hardware devices in which students can experiment and can test and improve their knowledge. However, most of them have two significant limitations. First, given that most of them are developed as, or evolve from single-user proofs of concept, they have no scalability provisions other than full laboratory replication. And second, when this is done, cost efficiency is often neglected. This paper presents the requirements for the creation of a novel remote laboratory architecture focused on, but not limited to, embedded systems experimentation. An architecture, based on Redis (an open source, in-memory data structure store, which is often used as database, cache or message broker), a modular design, and hardware-sharing techniques, is proposed in order to achieve the combined requirements of high scalability and cost efficiency. This mixed hardware-software architecture serves as a basis for the development of remote laboratories, especially those focused on microcontroller-based systems experimentation and embedded devices experimentation. From a user perspective the architecture is webbased, and has provisions to be easily adaptable to different Learning Management Systems and different hardware embedded devices. A new microcontroller-oriented remote laboratory based on the architecture has been developed, with the aim of providing valid evaluation data, and has been used in a real environment. The architecture and the resulting remote laboratory have been compared with other state of the art remote laboratories and their architectures. Results suggest that the proposed architecture does indeed meet the main requirements, which are scalability through replicability and cost efficiency. Furthermore, similarly to previous architectures, it promotes usability, universal access, modularity and reliability. INDEX TERMS Remote laboratory, scalability, embedded system, online experimentation, architecture. JAVIER GARCÍA-ZUBÍA (M'08-SM'11) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Deusto, Spain. He is currently a Full Professor with the Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto. He is the Leader of the WebLab-Deusto Research Group. His research interests include remote laboratory design, implementation, and evaluation. DIEGO LÓPEZ-DE-IPIÑA received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, in 2002. Responsible for several modules in the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer engineering, he is interested in pervasive computing, the IoT, semantic service middleware, open linked data, and social data mining. He is currently an Associate Professor and a Principal Researcher with the MORElab Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto. He is taking and has taken part in several big consortium-based research European (EDI, GreenSoul, WeLive, SIM-PATICO, IES CITIES, or GOLAB) and Spanish projects, and has more than

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“…Nevertheless, they have a common feature-they are dedicated to Further analyses of remote prototyping systems, performed to illustrate the current state of knowledge, have shown that currently available systems usually have a rather static architecture dedicated to solving one class of problems [22][23][24], or take the form of extensive conference systems [25]. In this paper [26], a cloud-based remote virtual prototyping platform for embedded control applications was proposed, which allows one to prototype application code for a large number of users with the use of simulators. Similar solutions can be found in [27].…”

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Remote Design and Manufacture through the Example of a Ventilator

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In this paper, the authors present a completely new approach to the remote prototyping process, taking into account the distributed nature of design and manufacturing resources. A new model is suggested, taking into account the conditions of the Industry 4.0 concept, along with a component of remote implementation and coordination of operations. On the basis of this model, the architecture of the target system is developed, which is further built and implemented in the actual productive environment. The system’s functionality additionally enables the implementation of the design and production process in critical conditions resulting from natural disasters or epidemic states. The practical application of the developed solutions is presented on the design of a ventilator, which is dedicated to help in the fight against epidemic states, e.g., coronavirus.

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“…The application of modern Internet Technologies allows to create laboratory workshops with remote access and to use the last achievements in cloud computing. [10][11][12] The papers 11,12 are devoted to the cloud services used during the creation of virtual and remote laboratories. The primary benefit of the cloud services is the considerable cost saving of IT infrastructure, the occupied space and the free (arbitrary) runtime of the laboratory operation.…”

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Advanced microwave equipment simulator for engineering education

Gubsky

Zemlyakov

2018

International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education

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A novel approach to computer simulator development of microwave measurement equipment is presented. The main feature of the software is an interface of the simulator, which is an interactive image of the real equipment allowing to manipulate the keys and other elements of the front panel by the computer mouse. For the measurement procedure, the simulator allows to use analytical formulas or upload the data from the computer models of the microwave devices and from the real measurements in *.s2p format. Implementation of the developed simulator into the educational process provides each student with an unlimited access to the measuring equipment and gives the opportunity not only to study the characteristics of microwave devices but also to gain experience with the real equipment due to interactive computer interface that is completely identical to real front panel.

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Cloud-based remote virtual prototyping platform for embedded control applications: Cloud-based infrastructure for large-scale embedded hardware-related programming laboratories

Cited by 8 publications

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Improving the Scalability and Replicability of Embedded Systems Remote Laboratories Through a Cost-Effective Architecture

Improving the Scalability and Replicability of Embedded Systems Remote Laboratories Through a Cost-Effective Architecture

Remote Design and Manufacture through the Example of a Ventilator

Advanced microwave equipment simulator for engineering education

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