A simple LabVIEW based framework to facilitate the deployment of iLab batch lab servers

This paper describes the work carried out at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences to create a LabVIEW based toolkit that aims at providing laboratory developers with a tool to easily develop new batch lab servers for the iLab Shared Architecture. The Toolkit was developed for the ELVIS batch lab server of MIT, but can be used as a general solution for any type of iLab batch Lab Server deployed with LabVIEW at the server-side. The development platform was LabVIEW due to its widespread use in engineering schools. The Toolkit implements the function of an experiment engine that parses an experiment specification XML document, executes the experiment and generates an experiment result XML document. The XML parser can be easily adapted.