Abstract
Within two TEMPUS projects, we implemented the GOLDi remote lab infrastructure at ten universities in Armenia, Georgia, Germany and Ukraine. Our interactive hybrid online lab – called GOLDi (Grid of Online Lab Devices Ilmenau) – stands for a grid concept to realize a universal remote lab platform. In addition to the actual use as a remote lab for educational purposes, maintenance is of crucial importance - especially if the lab is part of a cluster of distributed labs.
Until this day there are still major issues concerning the maintenance and reliability of the hardware setup at each GOLDi location. In this article, we propose a new internal Ethernet based communication implementation. We compare the new implementation with the existing CAN based implementation in regards to different characteristics such as cost of implementation, reliability and maintainability.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the work of Tobias Vietzke and Stephen Ahmad for their work within the GOLDi framework and Felix Seidel in particular, as most parts of the implementation are based on his B.Sc. Thesis [10].
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Fäth, T., Henke, K., Hutschenreuter, R., Seidel, F., Wuttke, HD. (2019). On Effective Maintenance of Distributed Remote Laboratories. In: Auer, M., Langmann, R. (eds) Smart Industry & Smart Education. REV 2018. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95678-7_9
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