Unified and Flexible Online Experimental Framework for Control Engineering Education

This article introduces a unified and flexible experimental framework for massive online experimentation of control education. The new architecture adopts a front-end and back-end separation scheme based on React at frontend and Nginx at backend, and a single page application has been achieved to im...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 835 - 844
Main Authors: Lei, Zhongcheng, Zhou, Hong, Hu, Wenshan, Liu, Guo-Ping
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Algorithms
Colleges & universities
Computer architecture
Configuration management
Control engineering education
Design parameters
Engineering education
Experimentation
flexibility and scalability
Laboratories
online experimental framework
online laboratory
Real time
Real-time systems
Remote control
Servers
Service-oriented architecture
Students
User experience
User interfaces
Videos
Virtual environments
Visualization
ISSN:0278-0046, 1557-9948
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Summary:This article introduces a unified and flexible experimental framework for massive online experimentation of control education. The new architecture adopts a front-end and back-end separation scheme based on React at frontend and Nginx at backend, and a single page application has been achieved to improve user experience. Multiple features and supporting technologies which provide a flexible, interactive, and real-time platform with enhanced sense of presence and user experience are discussed. The design and implementation of the proposed system are depicted in detail. With the implementation of online algorithm design, the unified framework enables all the functionalities such as web-based algorithm design, parameter tuning, visual configuration of customized user interface, and real-time control with remote and virtual laboratories, which cover the entire process in control education experimentation. A case study with students from two universities shows that the implemented online laboratory framework can support massive students with minimum maintenance required.
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ISSN:0278-0046
1557-9948
DOI:10.1109/TIE.2021.3053903