Remote Laboratory for Learning in Control Engineering

This paper addresses the problem of remote laboratories in education. The laboratory presented in this paper is located at the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania, and is designed mainly for students from Automatic Control and Applied Informatics – distance learning programme, and also for the situations when professors from our University are visiting professors abroad and the laboratories associated with their lectures are done remotely. The paper focuses on the main systems (installations, equipment) from the lab and the laboratory works that can be done, including studies on automatic control systems, and also investigations regarding the characteristics of control system elements (transducers, controllers, control valves). Solutions for the remote operation of this laboratory are also presented.