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Remote Control Instrumentation

Remote instrumentation allows researchers and students to control scientific instruments located at distant sites through internet interfaces. This expands access to expensive, specialized equipment and enables authentic hands-on learning experiences. Some benefits include sharing instruments to maximize usage and reducing costs, while risks involve maintaining security and appropriate access. As network infrastructure and control interfaces advance, more instruments will likely become available through remote instrumentation.

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Remote Control Instrumentation

Remote instrumentation allows researchers and students to control scientific instruments located at distant sites through internet interfaces. This expands access to expensive, specialized equipment and enables authentic hands-on learning experiences. Some benefits include sharing instruments to maximize usage and reducing costs, while risks involve maintaining security and appropriate access. As network infrastructure and control interfaces advance, more instruments will likely become available through remote instrumentation.

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Remote
The word remote may refer to removed to a distance; not near; far away
or distant.

Control
Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating
influence.

Instrumentation
Instrumentation is defined as the art and science of measurement and
control.
 The terms Remote Control Instrumentation and Remote
Instrumentation can be used interchangeably.

 Remote Instrumentation is a practice of exercising control


over scientific instruments at remote locations.

 For further discussions weǯd be using the abbreviation RI


for the term Remote Instrumentation.
 r number of institutions have remote instrumentation projects in
place like

 
 It began its iLab program several years ago.
 The iLab program allows users to conduct experiments with specialized
equipment on the MIT campus.
 For e.g.: Shaker table that simulates earthquakes.
 For e.g.: Flagpole equipped with a wide range of sensors measuring
meteorological parametersȄthrough a browser interface.
 The program now makes its instruments available to researchers and
students around the world.
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 £ouses worldǯs largest optical and infra red telescope.

 Located at  feet above the sea level, at the summit of Mauna ea
volcano.

 Researchers share access to the observatory through remote


instrumentation.

º In addition, fields such as health care are using remote


instrumentation for telemedicine and similar programs.
 Remote instrumentation requires an interface, typically browser based
that allows users to control the relevant functions of the instrument.

 The interface can be virtually identical to the primary set of controls for
the device, or it might include controls for a limited set of the
instrumentǯs functions.

 r simplest example could be of a remote controlled toy car.

 It could be as complex as controlling space shuttles w/o any human


interventions.
 Some instruments, such as chromatographs or spectrometers, analyze
samples.

 r sample might be sent to the facility that hosts the device, where a
technician loads the sample and prepares the instrument.

 Users from remote locations could then conduct desired experiments


through a computer screen.

 If real-time interaction with someone at the facility is necessary or


beneficial for the experiments, two-way communication can be set up,
such as a videoconference.
 Controlling T.V./r.C. via  Real time interfacing of labVIEW
Remote controls. Virtual Instruments

 rutomated vehicle locks.  Teamviewer

 Remote Desktop Monitoring.  Voice dialing in surveillance systems.

 rccessing terminals via Lr.  Google docs


an example only of remote control)
 With a grant from a private foundation, a consortium of three
universities and two oceanographic institutes have installed a bank of
sensors and testing equipment on the ocean floor, as well as
atmospheric instruments at the waterǯs surface.

 The project includes


 underwater cameras
 water sampling and analytical tools
 other devices to monitor and measure a wide range of oceanographic and
meteorological activity.

 The equipment is linked to the institutions in the consortium, where


researchers and faculty can control the devices.
 xennifer is an undergraduate in a marine biology class at one of the
participating universities During lab sessions, her professor, Dr.
Morgan, frequently turns to the undersea lab to demonstrate
experiments and show students the results.

 £e can control video cameras on the sea floor, collect water samples
and feed them into a tool that analyses p£ and other parameters, and
even position the water sample under a microscope, all through a
simple browser interface.

 Over the semester, Dr. Morgan uses data from the instruments to show
the class correlations between atmospheric conditions and the
conditions of the water and marine life.
 Dr. Morgan knows that exposing studentsȄparticularly
undergraduatesȄto authentic research such as this contributes
significantly to their engagement with the material, their
understanding of it, and their motivation to pursue further study.

 Outside class, xennifer can perform most of the same manipulations


from her dorm room, using a modified version of the interface. She can
repeat experiments to see how the results change over time, and she
especially enjoys watching the instruments that measure the
movements of the tides and that monitor local sea life.

 Meanwhile, students at numerous other universities can also access the


instruments from their campuses.
 Process/Operations management

 Leak Detection
 Instruments are capable of detecting organic and inorganic compounds
simultaneously and thus help worksites keep employees safe and
facilities in compliance through accurate and instant leak detection.

 Radiation detection and Monitoring


 In nuclear power generation, different radiation detection and
monitoring product solutions are used to ensure the safety of your
facility and personnel.

 Reactor Safety Systems


 Devices installed within the reactors to monitor their apt working and
to keep a check over working condition as well.
 This field is a merger of three.

 Its about how uclear Physics provides opportunities to study


solar system and how RI capitalizes on it.

 The following tasks are identified for space experiments with


nuclear instruments boarded on Orbiters and Landers i.e. at
remote locations.
‰ To determine the content of natural radioisotopes ^     

                  

              

‰ To study composition of subsurface material at different regions of


planets for modelling processes of their formation and for explanation
of their diversity.
‰ To investigate distribution of water in the shallow subsurface of Mars,
Moon and Mercury, to test the presence of deposits of pure water ice, as
the soil constituting substance, at some particular regions on their
surfaces.

‰ To characterize radiation conditions in the interplanetary space and on


the surface of planets, to determine potential radiation hazards during
long-duration space flight and long-duration stay on Moon and Mars.

‰ One of the most important findings of this mission was discovery of


water ice with very high content in the shallow subsurface of Mars
practically everywhere above the latitude of 6 both at north and at
south
 LED
 Lunar Exploration eutron detector.

 First eutron telescope with fine spatial resolution.

 by rSr

 Launched in the year 2.

 Capable of imaging neutron emission of the Moon with a spatial resolution of  km.

 Maps hydrogen distribution on moon surface.

 Tests water ice at bottoms of permanently shadowed polar craters.

 Spatial resolution -3 m.

 SR measured in terms of GSD GSI) i.e. Ground sample distance.


 OCGRT
 Orbital collimated Gamma-ray telescope.

 By European Space rgency ESr).

 £igh Spectral resolution -3m.

 £igh Detection Sensitivity for nuclear lines.

 Scintillation detectors with LaBr3 crystals are used as detectors for


this telescope.

 Its advanced version is in pipeline at Russian Space rgency.


 One time cost involved.

 Can save time and the expense of travel.

 Expanding access to scientific facilities in times of stalled or shrinking


budgets.

 Some instruments are so expensive and specialized that there might


only Be a handfulȄor even just oneȄin existence. Exposing students
to such equipment, allowing them to engage in authentic learning
experiences rather than just simulations or canned exercises using
archival data, creates more compelling learning opportunities
 Security
 Whenever sensitive assets are connected to a network, security concerns
must be identified and addressed.

 rccess
 Proper authentication of users is vital to prevent inappropriate access to
instruments, data, or other network assets.

 Cost
 Specialized equipment is expensive to implement and operate and the
degree to which an instrument requires oversight by onsite technicians
adds to these costs. rny organization that makes its instruments
available must understand and account for the increased costs that
such access entails.
 rs scientific instrumentation is increasingly controlled solely through
computer interfaces, and as security measures and software to manage
resources become more sophisticated, the number and kind of
instruments available through remote channels will increase.

 rs network infrastructure maturesȄoffering greater speeds, improved


security, and increased accessȄopportunities grow for bringing
experiences of genuine scientific instrumentation and work to a wider
range of students.

 rs institutions reap synergistic benefits of remote instrumentation, higher


education will likely undertake more partnerships in which colleges and
universities maintain different pieces of scientific equipment and share
access to those resources, maximizing their usage while eliminating
multiple purchases of similar hardware.
 Capable of bringing, authentic learning experiences to a wide range of
students.

 £elps in better understanding of subject material.

 Can provide hands-n experience of different sophisticated


instruments to students.
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 IEEE papers on Remote control Instrumentation.

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