Dr. Sachin Chaudhari and his students Animesh Das, K S Viswanadh, Rishabh Agrawal, Akshit Gureja and Nitin Nilesh presented a paper on Using Miniature Setups and Partial Streams for Scalable Remote Labs at the IEEE 10th International Conference on Future Internet-of-Things and Cloud, 2023 (FiCloud-2023) held in a hybrid mode at Marrakesh, Morocco from 14 – 16 August. Here is research work explained by the authors:
Remote labs allow students from anywhere in the world to access and conduct experiments without the need to physically be present in a lab at any time. This is extremely important for students with little to no access to proper science labs because of a lack of infrastructure or a pandemic. There is a potential for scaling up the process so that queue delay can be removed and people are able to access dedicated experiment setups. This paper proposes a way for cost-effective scaling of Remote Labs by miniaturisation of setups, image processing techniques, and partial streaming (using a single camera to stream multiple experiments). For this, a use-case of the Vanishing Glass Rods experiment is considered. An end-to-end remote lab is created, including hardware setups and a dashboard to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach in comparison to the existing approach of using lab-scale setups and one camera per experiment.
Conference page: https://ficloud.org/2023/
August 2023