Cyberlab Lab. eksperimenter og Internett-basert undervisning Tor Ivar Eikaas PROST

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CyberlabLab. eksperimenter og Internett-basert
undervisningTor Ivar Eikaas PROST årsmøte 11.
mai 1999
Tor.I.Eikaas_at_ecy.sintef.no Cyberlab.Org
AS http//www.cyberlab.org
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Business idea
Cyberlab.Org AS
Customers
Providers
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Background

• Costly to develop and build good laboratory
  experiment facilities.
• Particularly costly to keep such systems
  alive.
• Many institutions give up teaching with the aid
  of laboratory experiments.

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Market survey (the why...)

• Questionnaire telephone calls
• 30 institutions contacted.
• The situation is problematic in all institutions.
• 90 of the contacts have responded very favorably
  to this initiative.
• Possible to make approx. 8 experiments available
  soon.
• A majority of the institutions will consider
  becoming customers.

Our equipment is becoming outdated and we are
therefore not suitable in a role as Provider...
...We would like to buy experimental capacity
from Cyberlab European Univ.
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Business idea
Cyberlab.Org - Organizer and provider On a
commercial basis to provide advanced online
experiments and simulations on the Internet to
the global education communities. Offer
complete web-based control-engineering education
packages for the industrial and continuing
education market. The experiment will be
provided by universities and companies. The
Customers are universities, institutions offering
continuing education, and industry.
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Goals

• The market goal is to establish Cyberlab.Org as
  the dominating vendor of advanced experiments on
  the global education arena.

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Team co-operation

• NTNU
• Department of Engineering Cybernetics

Prediktor AS
Cyberlab.Org AS
SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, Automatic
Control
Providers
Providers
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Business idea (the how...)
Technical solution
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Experiments

• Complexity

• Small low-cost
• No local assistance
• Short duration (a few minutes)

• Large complex
• Lab. engineer needed
• Long duration (30min?several hours)

• Usage

• Demonstrations
• Students work

• Research
• Benchmarking test of control strategy
• Students work

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Pilot experiments
Inverted Pendulum
Crane control
Head box for paper machine
Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne,
Switzerland
Ecole des Mines, France
The Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim
Refrigeration cycle
Distillation column
Wind energy
The University of Bochum, Germany
The Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark
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Demonstration
Dr. Denis Gillet
Inverted Pendulum
Toycopter
Electrical Drive
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Demonstration

• Inverted Pendulum
• Inverted Pendulum in Lausanne, Switzerland
• Stand alone LabVIEW application "virtual
  instruments" (VIs)
• Video