Treffer: The Three-Tank System: A Remote . . .

Current Internet-based networking technologies provide in engineering education the ability to enhance and replace the presence at the traditional control laboratories with a remote or simulated experimentation session. This paper presents a complete virtual and remote laboratory to make experiences on a nonlinear MIMO system: the three-tank plant. The experiment can be controlled exclusively with a standard web browser that provides the platform to transmit information as well as an environment to run Java applets. So, no additional software is needed at all. The client-side of the virtual/remote lab has been developed using the programming support provided by Ejs, an open-source tool to generate powerful Java applications and applets without necessity of knowing advanced programming.