Remote Laboratory Based on a Reconfigurable Hardware Platform

Laboratory activities play a crucial role to provide the theoretical context to students can assimilate it as part of their undergratuate programm. Traditionally, these activities take place within university facilities following a fixed scheduling time and a limited flexibility. Students have restricted access to laboratory equipment, professor attention, and physical labs. As an alternative to the traditional learning approach, this research work proposes a remote laboratory using a reconfigurable hardware platform. Final results highlight the feasibility to combine configurable instruments with the computer system for management purposes. The designed remote setup allows students to reserve laboratory time by creating customized environments for a wide range of experiments across different subjects. As future research, the improvements of applications such as oscilloscope or signal generator will be considered to be deployed on a single commercial hardware board.