Worksho of PILAR Federated VISIR systems celebrated in the TALE 2018 conference (Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering) in December 2018, in Wollongong (Australia). Here you have the PILAR project link >>> http://www.ieec.uned.es/pilar-project/index.html?lng=en

1. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP:
AN OPEN AND IMPROVED VISIR SYSTEM
THROUGH PILAR FEDERATION FOR
ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONICS REMOTE
EXPERIMENTS
Manuel Castro; Felix Garcia-Loro
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED)
Madrid, Spain
{mcastro; fgarcialoro}@ieec.uned.es

2. AGENDA
12:00-13:30 <<PART I>>
1. Welcome to the participants (MC)
2. PILAR Project overview (MC)
3. VISIR remote lab (educational point
of view) (MC)
4. Advantages & disadvantages of
remote labs. UNED case (MC)
5. VISR remote lab Overview of the
VISIR system (FGL)
6. VISIR in different learning
scenarios (FGL)
7. VISIR quick user manual (FGL)
8. PRACTICE: pilot course (MC & FGL)
13:30-15:00 <<PART II>>
1. VISIR around the world (MC)
2. Benefits of the PILAR federation for
engineering education (MC)
3. Federation (FGL)
4. Federating remote labs (FGL)
5. Users’ profiles in The PILAR
federation (FGL)
6. PRACTICE: Federating experiments
(MC & FGL)

3. AGENDA
The username and password for computer is:
User: (local one)
password: (local one)

4. WORKSHOP PLATFORM
PILAR LMS Platform
https://pilar.ieec.uned.es/moodle/

5. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP:
AN OPEN AND IMPROVED VISIR SYSTEM
THROUGH PILAR FEDERATION FOR
ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONICS REMOTE
EXPERIMENTS
(PART 1)

6. Platform Integration of Laboratories based on the Architecture of visiR
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good
practices
Action Type: Strategic Partnerships for higher education
link
WORKSHOP PLATFORM

7. WHO ARE PILAR?
PARTNERS
UNED-DIEECTQAI
Institituto Politecnico Do Porto
Blekinge Institute Technology (BTH)
Deusto University
Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, FH-Kärnten
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)
EVM Project Management Experts SL
Omnia

8. PROJECT WEBS & SOCIAL NETS
PILAR project EC information
PILAR - Facebook
PILAR - Twitter
PILAR - LinkedIn
PILAR - Federation
PILAR - LMS

9. PILAR GOALS
• Building a reliable and highly available VISIR platform federation
• A much more innovative practical block
• A much larger set of practices
• The use of the best set of remote learning services of each partner in
each moment
• A much more efficient and effective use of the VISIR resources of each of
the partners
• Work-balance of users and experiments
• Simple to add new experiments: easily scalable and maintainable
platform
• A service level agreement (SLA)
• A much better control of the students' learning process

10. PROJECT IOS
• IO1: VISIR alliance, <<IPP ld>>
• IO2: Advances in VISIR's state of the art, <<UNED ld >>
• IO3: VISIR federation policies, <<CUAS ld>>
• IO4: Results of PILAR pilot, <<IAoE ld >>
• IO5: Set of open remote VISIR electrical&electronics practices, <<IPP
ld>>
• IO6: PILAR set of technical and methodological docs, <<BTH ld>>
• IO7: Evaluation plan and evaluation results analysis, <<BTH ld>>
• IO8: Dissemination outcomes, <<UDEUSTO ld>>

11. PROJECT WPS
WP1: Project management and global coordination, <<UNED ld>>
WP2: Building PILAR federation, <<IPP ld>> <<IO1 / IO2 / IO3 / IO5 /
IO6>>
WP3: Using PILAR in academic institutions: university level, <<CUAS &
IAOE ld>> <<IO4 / IO5 / IO6>>
WP4: Using PILAR in academic institutions: high schools, <<UDEUSTO &
OMNIA ld>> <<IO4 / IO5 / IO6>>
WP5: PILAR Evaluation, <<BTH ld>> <<IO7>>
WP6: Dissemination, impact and sustainability, <<EVM & UDEUSTO ld>>
<<IO8>>

12. WORKPACKAGES STRUCTURE

13. REMOTE LABS
What is a RL?
A RL is a tool which combines software and hardware to make possible the
control and access to real equipment/instruments and components
remotely
RLs are not only educational tool but researching and training tools
What is not a RL?
RLs are not a simulation software or a virtual lab
RLs, in general, are not designed to carry out any type of experiment: all
experiments must be reusable
RLs are not instructors: They require an eductional framework in which
being deployed

14. EXPERIMENTING WITH RLS
What advantages does RLs
provide?
What disadvantages does RLs
have?
• Its geographical availability
• Its temporal avalaibility
• Users interact with a real
system
• Digital habilities
• Security (both for users and
equipment)
• …
Those inherited from working with
a real system (real lab) and with a
digital system (software)
• Have very limited ability to
provide manual skills
• Interaction
• Experimentation has limitations
• ...

15. VISIR SOFTWARE

16. VISIR SOFTWARE
Experiment client – User interface
(PHP – Adoble Flash)
Web Server
(Apache)
Database
Measure Server
(Microsoft Visual C++)
Equipment Server
(Labview)
User
Hardware

17. VISIR WORKBENCH
Components
Breadboard
wiring area
Instruments
DC PS
connections
DMM
connections
FG
connections
probes
Oscilloscope
Wires
Experiments

18. VISIR WORKBENCH

19. WORKSHOP PLATFORM
PILAR LMS Platform
https://pilar.ieec.uned.es/moodle/

20. PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP:
AN OPEN AND IMPROVED VISIR SYSTEM
THROUGH PILAR FEDERATION FOR
ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONICS REMOTE
EXPERIMENTS
(PART 2)

21. VISIR
VISIR AROUND THE WORLD
In the VISIR consortium, there are 6 VISIR deployments hosted in 5
universities in 4 European countries.
• BTH, Sweden
• University of Deusto, Spain
• CUAS, Austria
• ISEP-IPP, Portugal
• UNED, Spain
FH Campus Wien University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia

22. VISIR AROUND THE WORLD
VISIR
VISIR+

23. FROM VISIR-SIG TO PILAR
The VISIR SIG (IAOE) is organized for people who are interested in Online
Engineering especially in opening university laboratories for remote
access 24/7. Spending more time in the laboratory your students will
become true experimenters being able to design goods and services
complying with the requirements of a sustainable society.
The VISIR project was launched in order to disseminate methods for
opening laboratories for remote access. In the VISIR SIG we see
possibilities of sharing ideas, equipment and learning material as well as
discussing the further development of the VISIR Open Lab Platform.
Examples of projects of immediate interest are VISIR iLabs integration,
sharing of lab exercises, elaboration of a joint VISIR network, LXI
hardware integration. A goal is standardized online workbenches located
at universities around the globe constituting grid laboratories available
for lab sessions for students on campus and off campus.
2015 Award Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC)

24. FEDERATION
The federation of remote
laboratories is a feature that
RLMSs have started to support,
providing management tools and
managing common services:
• Two universities using the same
RLMS support federation
protocols.
(Go-Lab VLs & RLs from 18
institutions)
• Two institutions providing the
same remote lab can balance
their clients/users load.

25. FEDERATION

26. NEED OF A FEDERATION

27. NEED OF A FEDERATION

28. NEED OF A FEDERATION
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29. NEED OF A FEDERATION
F G H I 0 20 A B C D E

30. PILAR CHALLENGES

31. USERS’ PROFILE
• Administrator
• Consortium partner
o 1 person per partner (management profile).
o In charge of agreemements, policies, etc.
• VISIR partner
o 1 person per partner (technical profile).
o In charge of practice repository.
• Developer partner
• Teacher partner

32. WORKSHOP PLATFORM
PILAR LMS Platform
https://pilar.ieec.uned.es/moodle/