Industrial Automation Home-Lab (IAH-Lab) for Teaching/Learning During Covid-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to temporary disruptions to face-to-face teaching/learning at universities and other institutions, and a general shift to online or hybrid education and training. In this paper, the authors propose a new pedagogic methodology for teaching and learning based on a remote industrial automation laboratory located in the teacher’s house, to which it was given the acronym IAH-Lab. The main contributions are the proposed remote teaching/learning methodology, the architectures, and new remote setup (IAH-Lab) mounted for this purpose. Simulations and experimental results elucidate the potential and performance of the proposed remote laboratory (IAH-Lab). © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.