The project is been developed in collaboration with LabTEVE and the Laboratory of Instrumentation for Measurement (LIM) from
the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. The activities are devoted to the hands-on activity of Mechanical Engineering students.
The experiment was conceived, designed and instrumented to allow the students to remotely access it for verifying Hooke´s law, becoming familiar with an experimental methodology
used for measuring Young´s modulus.
As in a traditional lab only one user may actuate the experiment. But if the experiment is remotely executed by a student group, the results may be discussed
by the group elements.The communication scheme is based on a client-server structure, in which the server is connected to the real equipment and the client is running in the user computer.
The traditional interface of the remote experiment is showed at left. The new interface, developed to support the use of haptic devices and provide
touch at distance is at right. In this new interface, the top-right window presents the real equipment at Portugal that can be manipulated at distance.
Tests of the system and the interface were conducted betwen students in Brazil and the experiment located in the laboratory at Portugal. The device and some views
of the experiment can be observed in the images below.
- Federal University of Paraíba
- University of Porto
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