RoboLab: providing remote access to a physical radiochemistry laboratory for teaching and training

Olga N. Salina; Terje Grønås; Vivien Pottgießer; Mojmír Němec; Jan Willem Vahlbruch; Clemens Walther; Jon Petter Omtvedt

doi:10.1007/s10967-022-08589-3

RoboLab: providing remote access to a physical radiochemistry laboratory for teaching and training

Olga N. Salina^*, Terje Grønås, Vivien Pottgießer, Mojmír Němec, Jan Willem Vahlbruch, Clemens Walther, Jon Petter Omtvedt

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Centre for Radiation Protection and Radioecology

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Abstract

RoboLab enables students to perform real radiochemistry experiments without being physically present in a laboratory. Remotely controlled experiments are accessed through a web interface to a physical laboratory. The laboratory equipment is interfaced to a computer that both controls the equipment and provides feedback to the web user. A generic software template, using a cloud service, was developed to facilitate easy communication between the web browser and the control system. The sixth and most recent RoboLab, aiming at the production and measurement of ^234mPa (T_1/2 = 1.16 min), has been successfully developed and implemented using this template.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1533-1539
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume	332
Issue number	5
Early online date	14 Oct 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08589-3 https://doi.org/10.15488/14044
Publication status	Published - May 2023

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Keywords

Pa nuclide generator
Radiochemistry teaching
Remotely controlled experiment
RoboLab

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Analytical Chemistry
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Pollution
Spectroscopy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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