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Cyberlab Lab. eksperimenter og Internett-basert undervisning Tor Ivar Eikaas PROST årsmøte 11. mai 1999. Tor.I.Eikaas@ecy.sintef.no Cyberlab.Org AS http://www.cyberlab.org. Business idea. Cyberlab.Org AS. Customers. Providers. Background.
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CyberlabLab. eksperimenter og Internett-basert undervisningTor Ivar Eikaas PROST årsmøte 11. mai 1999 Tor.I.Eikaas@ecy.sintef.no Cyberlab.Org AS http://www.cyberlab.org
Business idea Cyberlab.OrgAS Customers Providers Tor Ivar Eikaas
Background • Costly to develop and build good laboratory experiment facilities. • Particularly costly to keep such systems “alive”. • Many institutions give up teaching with the aid of laboratory experiments. Tor Ivar Eikaas
Market survey (the why...) • Questionnaire & telephone calls • 30 institutions contacted. • The situation is problematic in all institutions. • 90% of the contacts have responded very favorably to this initiative. • Possible to make approx. 8 experiments available soon. • A majority of the institutions will consider becoming customers. “ Our equipment is becoming outdated and we are therefore not suitable in a role as Provider... ...We would like to buy experimental capacity from Cyberlab”European Univ. Tor Ivar Eikaas
Business idea Cyberlab.Org - Organizer and provider: On a commercial basis to provide advanced online experiments and simulations on the Internet to the global education communities. Offer complete web-based control-engineering education packages for the industrial and continuing education market. The experiment will be provided by universities and companies. The Customers are universities, institutions offering continuing education, and industry. Tor Ivar Eikaas
Goals • The market goal is to establish Cyberlab.Org as the dominating vendor of advanced experiments on the global education arena. Tor Ivar Eikaas
Prediktor Team & co-operation NTNU Department of Engineering Cybernetics Prediktor AS Cyberlab.OrgAS SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, Automatic Control Providers Providers Tor Ivar Eikaas
Business idea (the how...) Technical solution Tor Ivar Eikaas
Experiments • Complexity • Small & low-cost • No local assistance • Short duration (a few minutes) • Large & complex • Lab. engineer needed • Long duration (30minseveral hours) • Usage • Demonstrations • Students work • Research • Benchmarking & test of control strategy • Students work Tor Ivar Eikaas
Pilot experiments Inverted Pendulum Crane control Head box for paper machine Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland Ecole des Mines, France The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Refrigeration cycle Wind energy Distillation column The University of Bochum, Germany The Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark Tor Ivar Eikaas
Demonstration Dr. Denis Gillet Electrical Drive Inverted Pendulum Toycopter Tor Ivar Eikaas
Demonstration • Inverted Pendulum • Inverted Pendulum in Lausanne, Switzerland • Stand alone LabVIEW application "virtual instruments" (VIs) • Video Tor Ivar Eikaas