A Web Lab for Mobile Robotics Education

Abstract

This paper presents an architecture for building remote access laboratories (or Web labs) following the service-oriented computing approach. In this architecture the application's building blocks are services that can be recursively composed resulting in more comprehensive services. Remote access laboratories can benefit of this approach. Every lab resource (physical or logical) is modeled and implemented as a service (in our case, a Web service) and lab experiments are assembled by composing these services. A Web lab built according to this architecture is presented with examples of remote experiments in the field of mobile robotics.