A new virtual-instrumentation-based experimenting environment for undergraduate laboratories with application in research and manufacturing

作     者：Stegawaki, MA Schaumann, R 

作者机构：Portland State Univ Dept Elect & Comp Engn Portland OR 97201 USA 

出 版 物：《IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT》 (IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.)

年 卷 期：1998年第47卷第6期

页      面：1503-1506页

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学科分类：0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 

主　　题：Environments Netscape college student Remote virtual instrument laboratory procedure Function graphical user interfaces language programming 

摘      要：An undergraduate laboratory based on a functionally complete set of virtual tools for experimenting is described in this paper. An outstanding feature of the experimenting environment is an easy-to-use, graphical user interface to a laboratory experiment. It significantly shortens the time needed to implement experimenter-defined laboratory procedures and eliminates the need for high-level-language programming on the experimenter side. Taking advantage of industry-wide standards such as VISA, GP-IB, and VXI, our virtual instruments can perform their function using either physical or simulated, local, or remote and network-distributed instruments coming from a variety of different manufacturers. A paperless laboratory with on-screen graded measurement reports was fully implemented. The environment allows remote experimenting-world-wide in principle. It currently requires a remote LabVIEW or XWindow session. Work is in progress on giving full access to our virtual tools using Java-capable web browsers such as Netscape, Hot Java, or Microsoft Internet Explorer and thus to provide students with a student-affordable remote experimenting platform.