A DISTANCE LEARNING MODEL FOR INTERNET BASED TELEOPERATION

Abstract: This paper proposes to present the reliability of WEB services applied on a mechatronic lab driven by a server connected to the internet offering virtual and remote interactivity for users running a client application. The interaction with robots in the same laboratory or with robots from different laboratories located in different geographical areas is quite difficult to achieve. A collaborative e-laboratories network architecture is used not only for cooperative research, but also for teaching mechatronics in a collaborative e-learning approach. This distributed multi-robot environment is composed mainly of the robots communication interfaces, data acquisition controllers, one server for every lab that communicate through an OCD camera with the physical system. The complex distributed application running on three servers offers access to everyone interested in robot manipulation for studying different methods of cooperation between robots or for learning mechatronic subjects. In this kind of protocols, one node (the receiver) exchanges data packets with another node (the sender) to let the receiver synchronize to the sender's clock. One of the classic protocols for this is the network time protocol (NTP)