Lesson Learned from Semester of Online Teaching of Automation Using Simulators

Abstract

Abstract The year 2020 has taught us a very important lesson about communication between university lecturers and students in laboratories. This paper is showing conclusions after a semester of remote personal contact with students and laboratory equipment. In normal cases authors of this paper providing their lessons in a laboratory equipped with industry effectors, Robots, Pneumatic equipment, and PLC’s. It was replaced with simulators, because of the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. In the paper, we describe the on-line didactic process conducted with simulators such as Factory IO; Festo FluidSim; Roboguide.