On the Development of a Unified Online Laboratory Framework

This work focuses on the requirements analysis of a modular framework to simplify developing and integrating new or existing remote experiments and laboratories. Besides this technical view, this paper also gives an organizational view on developing such a framework and managing the corresponding modules, which can also be developed by a third party. On a technical side, we provide the requirements to ultimately define the interface between different modules, enabling easy integration on different abstraction levels. The work's basis is the review of individual remote laboratories and existing systems of the past two decades and the author's collective experience. In the spirit of uniting the remote laboratory community, we will follow the IEEE 1876 standard wherever possible and extend it to make our vision of an easy to use, integrable, and extendable framework possible.