Remote Lab Instrumentation

La Trobe University is partnering with VeRSI to build a remote training laboratory and classroom, a visualisation lab, to teach instrument-centric science and expose students to the laboratory experience.  The visualisation lab is larger than the instrumentation room allowing more students access to the instrument. The specifications for the lab are impressive: six HD projection screens, rapid access to the instruments, high-speed access to La Trobe University’s distributed storage and high performance computing facilities, along with future plans for an OptIPortal.  The lab will further enable remote collaboration with the Australian Synchrotron.

Below: a visualisation of the instrumentation room.

 
VeRSI is working with staff at the Centre for Materials and Surface Science (CMSS) at La Trobe University to build secure, robust, web-based interfaces to key instrumentation in the Centre so that it can be used remotely for research and teaching.  This modular technology has been reused from the virtual beamline (VBL) at the Synchrotron. This technology provides protection of the instruments from unauthorised use, scheduling and management of remotely accessible resources as well as data management. One of the aims of providing remote access, apart from providing access for the many external clients, is to increase the utilisation of the instruments, including for teaching purposes.

We have produced a short video  explaining the Remote Laboratory Instrumentation project and our support of this work. 

For more information contact Michael D'Silva.

More contact information can be found here.