Smart Adaptive Remote Laboratory

Smart Adaptive Remote Laboratory (SARL) is a system designed to provide the user an individualized experience by automatically adapting the experiments according to the student's current level of knowledge and experience. The system uses the student profile and academic information to adapt the activites and complexity of the experiment. Hence, each user will have access to different version of the same experiments.

The experiment stations hardware use Raspberry Pi micro-controllers and video cameras. The Raspberry Pi micro-controller is connected to the experiment to receive and execute commands from the user. The camera records and broadcast the experiment back to the user. The software platform of our current system uses Python, PHP, and JavaScript languages and HTML5 interfaces.

The group headquarters is in Florida Atlantic University (USA); however, we also have international collaborators in Canada, Colombia and Brazil. The group started to do research on remote and online laboratory since 2017.

Why Remote Laboratory?

Remote laboratory can solve some of the problems with physical labs such as unavailability of equipment, maintaince and upgrade costs. Additionally, remote laboratories have a big potential with the increasing demand of online programs and MOOCS courses.

Goals for period 2017-2019?

Develop prototype experiments implementation of SARL that can be used as proof of concept labs for the new standards under development currently IEEE-ICICLE xAPI and IEEE P1876 - Networked Smart Learning Objects for Online Laboratories.

Develop a set of six remote laboratories that can be used by Florida Atlantic University as proof of concept of the feasibility of the use of the SARL architecture in the academic domain. Expand the system generating a possiblity for other institutions to use and share their own laboratories as well.

Goals for period 2020-2022?

Complete the SLLO Online Laboratory Intergation
Authoring System for Online Laboratory Experiment Creation
Learning Analytic Modules

Recent Publication

Teacher training plan for engineering online laboratories composition…, C Aranzazu-Suescun, M M Larrondo-Petrie - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - laccei.org

Design of an Online Laboratory Authoring Tool…, MM Larrondo-Petrie - 2020 IEEE Frontiers …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org

Process of Adapting a Local Laboratory to Connect to an Online Laboratory System Based on Standard Definitions and Open Source Technologies LF Zapata-Rivera, MM Larrondo-Petrie… - … Conference on Remote …, 2020 - Springer