ARTIST: A Distributed Remote Control Lab

The aim of the paper is to present ARTIST, the remote control laboratory at University of Florence. Students can remotely interact with a number of physical processes exploiting predefined controllers or uploading their own. The main features of the lab are: a modular approach for the realization of different control tasks for the same process, which can be executed on different lab PCs and communicate over a network; a web-service application which exploits a database to facilitate the registration of users, processes and experiments of the laboratory. ARTIST website can be found at http://artist.dsi.unifi.it.