Conducting experiments using the Virtual lab

This section explains the procedure to use Single Board Heater System remotely using Scilab i.e. when you are accessing SBHS remotly using your computer over the virtual labs platform. An open loop experiment, step test is used for demonstrating this procedure. The process however remains the same for performing any other experiment explained in this section, unless specified otherwise. Let us first see the required files to be downloaded and installations to be done. Scilab is required to be installed on your computer. Please refer to Section and Section for the procedure to install scilab on Windows and Linux system, respectively.

SBHS scilab code for your OS, under the section SBHS Virtual Code, must be downloaded from http://sbhs.os-hardware.in/downloads. For example, if you are using a 32-bit linux operating system then you should download the file SBHS Scilab codes for Linux - (32 bit). The code downloaded will be in zip format. After the zip is unpacked, you will see scilab experiment folders such as Step_test, Ramp_Test, pid_controller etc. We will be using the Step_test folder. Do not alter the directory structure. If you want to copy or move an experiment outside the directory then make sure you also copy the common_files folder. The common_files folder must always be one directory outside the experiment folder. Now given that you have scilab installed and working and the required scilab code downloaded, let us see the step-by-step procedure to do a remote experiment.