Remote Laboratory with an Electro-pneumatic Classification Cell

Remote laboratories are excellent educational tools that allow students and professors interact with real equipment used in automation projects. In this work, we present a new system, which consists of an electro-pneumatic classification cell. This cell includes a robot with six degrees of freedom, which has been added to our remote laboratory of automatic control (LRA-ULE). This system lets students work with many different industrial equipment such as PLCs, drives, sensors or actuators as well as to monitor a real industrial system. The architecture of the system is based on the three-layer architecture (physical system layer, server layer and client layer), also used in the rest of the platform. In addition, a process simulation and a set of practical tasks have been developed, so that students can work with the physical system through a webpage included in our remote laboratory.