Virtual and remote laboratory as a complementary support in control education

Abstract

Virtual and remote laboratories are excellent tools to complement real on-site laboratories. This paper presents the development of a virtual and a remote laboratory to support and enhance the students’ experience when dealing with a real pilot plant for control engineering education. Both labs, virtual and remote, are developed in Easy Java/JavaScript Simulations (EjsS) with similar interfaces and equivalent tasks as the real lab. The evaluation of the complementary labs through a student survey is presented at the end of the paper to validate the usefulness of this approach.