This contribution presents a learning scenario in which online learning is connected with live-experiments in mechanical engineering for different manufacturing technologies. The experiments are remote-controlled and monitored by the learner within physical-real laboratories in three European cities. The aim is to design a technical platform including remote controlled, distance-observed experi...

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This a preprint of the Materials accepted for publication in Automation and Remote Control, vol. 68, no. 9, 2007. c ©Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2007. Russian version published in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, 2007, No. 9. You may find the most current version of this file together with a BibTEX entry at http://www.reiszig.de/gunther/. The definitive publication will be available at http://www.spr...

Short message service (SMS) is a technology that can use mobile devices to send and receive text message, with wide coverage area, high popularity, high reliability, low expenditure, easy development and other characteristics. Using GSM module or short message platform of network, short messages can be sent and received between the computer and the mobile terminal. This paper has designed and r...

This paper describes an inexpensive universal remote control device — a simple laser pointer. Using a single inexpensive camera, any interior space can be instrumented with device controls. The MagicWand allows users to manipulate data by pointing a laser at predefined widget areas.

As the world watched the electoral drama unfold in Florida at the end of 2000, people started wondering, “Wouldn’t all our problems be solved if they just used Internet Voting?”. People all over the world soon started taking a hard look at their voting equipment and procedures, and trying to figure out how to improve them [1]. There is a strong inclination towards moving to Remote Internet Voti...

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Distributed organizations increasingly rely on new video-supported communication technologies that may be subject to transmission delays. These delays systematically misalign the feedback one side receives from the other. Through microanalysis of video data from a video-supported' meeting in a geographically distributed company, we examine the impact of delay in such communication systems We sp...

A remotely controlled microgripper has been developed as an end-eeector for a six-degree-of-freedom force-reeecting motion-scaling system. The microgrip-per is small and lightweight, and features relatively high force and stroke compared to other designs. Furthermore , force sensing enables the accurate measurement and control of tool-tissue forces, and the em-ulation of diierent mechanical dev...