Einladung zum Vortrag im Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik

Remote Experimentation in Control Engineering Education --
Current Developments, Possibilities and Limitation

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Schmid

    Zeit: Dienstag · 4. 2. 2003 · 16:00 Uhr
    Ort: Hörsaal V 9. 31 · Pfaffenwaldring 9 · Campus Stuttgart-Vaihingen

Abstract

This talk deals with virtual laboratory approaches for experimentation with simulated and real plants, which uses the communication techniques of the World Wide Web.
The aim of this kind of distance learning environment is to facilitate the access to these plants for students and professionals in the area of control engineering. Resource sharing among the involved universities reduces money and time for maintenance or development of new experiments. A short introduction into learning and media didactics will be given. Most emphasis will be put on Web-based remote techniques, the results from different Projects e.g. VCLab, DynaMit, RSVL, LearNet, L2C and Cyberlab will be shown. The aspects of collaborative and project-oriented learning and also the activity that aims at a business model, where remotely operable laboratory experiments are made available to a global market, will be touched.

Biographical Information

Christian Schmid received his Diplom Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1972 from the University of Stuttgart, and a Dr.-Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Ruhr-Universita"t Bochum in 1979. From 1972 to 1975, he was Research Assistant at the University of Stuttgart. From 1975 to 1992, he was assistant professor and senior lecturer in the Control Engineering Laboratory of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. In 1992 he made the habilitation in Control Engineering. In 1993 he was awarded the title of Privatdozent and in 2000 he was promoted to an apl. Professor of Control Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His main research interests were numerical methods in control, model reduction, optimisation and are currently in the field of computer-aided control system design, adaptive control, applications using neural networks and modelling. He has started projects in the area of multimedia-based learning, virtual and remote labs with German and European partners and is currently managing a nation-wide project on networked learning in the area of control education.