The idea of using internet for collaborative education and research has its roots in the early 1990s when distributed robotics labs in NASA and the Universities Space and Automation Consortium have been interconnected via the world wide web (Kondraske et al. 1993). The implemented infrastructure meant to be generic and it was expected to benefit linkage between industry, government, and universities for research and educational purposes. Sharing educational experiments has since been reported in many papers (Aktan et al. 1996; Ma and Nickerson, 2006).

We very welcome any laboratory sharing from other educators who are interested in using our labs for educational purposes. If you have a remote or virtual lab running at your university or institute, you are welcome to send us the links to post it under this section. Our goal is to use this site as a portal toward the development of Collaboratories where educators will be able to share and access various experiments independently of their geographic locations.

References:

Kondraske GV, Volz RA, Johnson DH, Tesar D, Trinkle JC, Price CR, 1993. Network-Based Infrastructure for Distributed Remote Operations and Robotics Research. IEEE transactions on robotics and automation, 9, 5, 702-704.
Aktan B, Bohus CA, Crowl LA, Shor MH, 1996. Distance Learning Applied to Control Engineering Laboratories. IEEE transactions on education, 1996, 39, 3, 320, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, NY.
Ma J and Nickerson JV, 2006. Hands-on, Simulated, and Remote Laboratories: A Comparative Literature Review. ACM Comput. Surv., 38(3), 1-24.

Here is a list of online remote labs:

Cambridge Weblabs (UK)

http://como.cheng.cam.ac.uk/weblabs/index.html

NUS Internet Remote Experimentation (Singapore)

http://vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg/intr.html

Distance Electronics Lab (Sweden)

http://openlabs.bth.se/electronics/

Remote Lab (Germany)

http://www.remote-lab.de/index_en.html

MIT iLabs (USA)

http://ilab.mit.edu/ServiceBroker/

The Automatic Control Remote Lab (Switzerland)

http://lawww.epfl.ch/page13172.html