ABSTRACT
Traditional remote control experiments have been used in engineering education over a decade. However, it is still very difficult to support users to actively participate in the development of the lab practice. To promote the active participation in the lab practice, the remote programmable control experiment, which offers a tool to allow users implement their own control algorithm and model, is needed. In this chapter, a novel online programmable platform is proposed for new remote programmable control experiment development. To implement this proposed online platform, a web-based integrated development environment (IDE), namely Cloud9, is integrated into a Wiki-based remote laboratory (RL) platform which has been developed by the authors. Moreover, it can support multiple users to design a control model for collaborative research and engineering education. As a pilot example, a remote programmable robot control experiment has been successfully implemented. To test the new remote programmable robot control experiment, a user-designed basic proportional–integral–derivative (PID) algorithm has been implemented and run successfully to control robot remotely.
