From remote experiments to web-based learning objects: An advanced telelaboratory for robotics and control systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4817-4825

  Balestrino, Aldo ^a   Caiti, Andrea ^a   Crisostomi, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphic manipulators; Education; Learning object (LO); Real Time Application Interface (RTAI) Lab.

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT; IN-HOUSE SOFTWARE; INTERFACE SYSTEM; JAVA APPLETS; LEARNING OBJECTS; LEARNING PROCESS; LINUX KERNEL; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARES; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; REMOTE ACCESS; REMOTE EXPERIMENTS; SCILAB/SCICOS; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SPECIFIC LEARNING; VIRTUAL LABORATORIES; WEB BASED LEARNING;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTS; ROBOTICS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 77956587622     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.2006941     Document Type: Article

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