Distance and virtual laboratories

The paper deals with basic philosophy and structure of a remote controlled laboratory for experimentation in Electrical Engineering. The laboratory collects experiments from fields of Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, Electro-Mechanical and Motion Control Systems. The workbenches in the real laboratory are used over internet. Real experiments of the laboratory are distributed at various universities across Europe. A special care is devoted to preparation of learners to experimentation, including examining their knowledge before joining to the experiment. To have a feeling of participation in the experiment, except of the measurement data, also the signal from web camera is transferred to a distance operator.Electrical Power ProcessingElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc