Development Overview

There are several steps necessary to connect the physical lab to the Artificial.

1. Create a digial twin of the lab in a cloud namespace. See How to build a Lab.

2. Develop an adapter for the lab that can interface with the lab equipment’s drivers. This should be based on the specific drivers’ resource libraries. The drivers themselves can be simulated during adapter development. See Adapter Development Overview.

3. Write lab workflows in the adapter to automate the lab processes. You can start off with a basic tutorial one. Lab workflows can always be added later on. See the section Step 2: Create your first Workflow and the other workflow sections.

4. Test the above steps while simulating drivers or by connecting to drivers deployed on a test VM. See this step in Adapter Development Overview.

5. Deploy to a real lab.

   • Install drivers on the lab instruments’ PC’s. See Connecting to On-Site Lab Hardware.

   • Deploy the adapter to the lab IPC. See Deployment.