A proposed architecture for remote mechatronics laboratory

With the enhancements in enabling computer communication technologies sharing the available resources with the world costs almost nothing. In most of the studies until now one user can control one experiment at one time. In this paper we propose an architecture to enable multiple users to control multiple experiments at the same time with a minimum number of computers. The structure and the operation of the multiple users-multiple object remote access laboratory is described in detail. The solution has an experiment preparation environment and the experiment execution environment thus allowing safe operation of the experimental setups.