Conference Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Braitenberg swarm vehicles for odour plume tracking in laminar airflow 

      Syed Muhammad Mamduh, Syed Zakaria; Kamarulzaman, Kamarudin; Shaharil, Mad Saad; Ali Yeon, Md Shakaff, Prof. Dr.; Ammar, Zakaria; Abu Hassan, Abdullah, Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-04)
      This paper presents an algorithm to trace an odour plume using swarm robots in laminar airflow. The algorithm proposed here aims to bridge the gap between single and multiple element systems by mimicking and enhancing ...

    • Statistical formant descriptors with linear predictive coefficients for accent classification 

      Yusnita, Mohd Ali; Pandiyan, Paulraj Murugesa , Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Shahriman, Abu Bakar, Dr.; Nor Fadzilah, Mokhtar (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-06)
      Accent is a special trait of human speech that can deliver some information about a speaker's background. At the same time it is one of the profound factors that affects the intelligibility and performance of speech ...

    • High deadline meeting rate of non-preemptive dynamic soft real time scheduling algorithm 

      Zahereel Ishwar, Abdul Khalib, Dr.; R. Badlishah, Ahmad, Prof. Dr.; Ong, Bi Lynn, Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-11)
      Hard real time systems were often implemented with preemptive scheduling, which gives priority to the highest priority task. In this paper we present a new non-preemptive scheduling of jobs meant for soft real time ...

    • Method to convert Kinect's 3D depth data to a 2D map for indoor SLAM 

      Kamarulzaman, Kamarudin; Syed Muhammad Mamduh, Syed Zakaria; Ali Yeon, Md Shakaff, Prof. Dr.; Shaharil, Mad Saad; Ammar, Zakaria; Latifah Munirah, Kamarudin, Dr.; Abu Hassan, Abdullah, Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-03)
      Mobile robotics has been strongly linked to localization and mapping especially for navigation purpose. A robot needs a sensor to see objects around it, avoid them and also map the surrounding area. The use of 1D and 2D ...

    • A beam steering patch array antenna for WiMAX application 

      Muzammil, Jusoh, Dr.; Mohd. Faizal, Jamlos, Dr.; Muhammad Ramlee, Kamarudin, Assoc. Prof. Dr.; Midhat Nabil, Ahmad Salimi, Dr.; Mohd Fareq, Abd. Malek, Dr.; Mohd Ilman, Jais (Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013-04)
      A patch antenna design for switchable beam steer ability is proposed in this research. The presented antenna has successfully achieved beam steer functionality at four angle directions of +179°, -14°, +3°and 14°. The novel ...

    • Solar-operated hydrogen assisted combustion using solar PV panel to reduce vehicle's fuel consumption 

      Noor Shahida, Jamoshid; Nor Haidar, Hashim; Rosnazri, Ali, Dr.; Norshafinash, Saudin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-06)
      This paper presents a method of generating oxyhydrogen (HHO) gas by utilizing a solar photovoltaic (PV) panel for a vehicle. A 50 W PV panel is used to generate electricity through sun light and powering-up an HHO generator ...

    • Development of a webcam based lux meter 

      Abdul Halim, Ismail; Muhamad Safwan, Muhamad Azmi; M. A, Hashim; Mohd Nasir, Ayob; Mohd Sani, Mohamad Hashim, Dr.; Hassrizal, Hassan Basri (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-04)
      The amount of light is an important issue in several scenarios ranging from scenic design, light pollution study, robots navigation, occupational health and safety, illumination engineering, agriculture, medical appliances ...

    • Power capacity enhancement of transformerless photovoltaic inverter 

      Muhammad Irwanto, Misrun, Dr.; Shasidharan, Gomesh Nair; Mohd. Irwan, Yusoff; Muhammad Fitra, Zambak (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-06)
      A conventional inverter uses a transformer. Some transformers connected in parallel are needed to obtain a high power inverter. They cause the inverter has a big in size, expensive cost and low efficiency. To solve the ...

    • Effect of TiO2 thickness on dye sensitized solar cell performance 

      Muhammad Irwanto, Misrun, Dr.; Muhammad Fitra, Zambak; Shasidharan, Gomesh Nair; Mohd. Irwan, Yusoff (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-06)
      A dye solar cell with a dimension of 6 × 2 cm is fabricated with thickness of 40 μm, 80 μm and 120 μm of TiO2 by smearing it on an ITO coated glass. It is then tested under the average solar irradiance and temperature of ...

    • Adaptive Mho type distance relaying scheme with fault resistance compensation 

      Muhd. Hafizi, Idris; Mohd. Saufi, Ahmad; Ahmad Zaidi, Abdullah, Engr.; Surya Hardi, Amrin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-06)
      This paper describes an adaptive distance relaying scheme which can eliminate the effect of fault resistance on distance relay zone reach. Distance relay is commonly used as main protection to protect transmission line ...

    • Time-critical trajectory planning for a car-like robot in unknown environments 

      Mohd Sani, Mohamad Hashim; Tien-Fu, Lu (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-04)
      This paper presents a trajectory planning and realtime control of a nonholonomic mobile robot in a static environment. The trajectory is generated based on a geometric approach for a nonholonomic mobile robot. The trajectory ...

    • Sensor based autonomous color line follower robot with obstacle avoidance 

      Kazi Mahmud, Hasan; Abdullah, Al-Nahid; Khondker Jahid, Reza; Sabira, Khatun, Prof. Dr.; Md Rubel, Basar (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-04)
      This paper introduces the multiple source Multiple Destination Robot (MDR-1) having the ability to choose a desired line among multiple lines autonomously. Every line has different colors as their identities. The robot can ...

    • Induction motors performance under symmetrical voltage sags and interruption - Test result 

      Surya Hardi, Amrin; Syafruddin, Hasan; Muhd. Hafizi, Idris; Z., Pane; Chan, R. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-06)
      Main source voltage sags are short circuit faults in power systems. These fault currents propagate entire the circuits connected with them. After the fault is removed by circuit breaker opened, the system voltage may recover ...

    • Analysis of the residual between the model and the data using autocorrelation function for satellite attitude estimation 

      Nor Hazadura, Hamzah; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Norhizam, Hamzah (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-03)
      Objective of this paper is to investigate whether the noise in attitude dynamics model and measurement model is Gaussian white noise process or not. This is important because if the assumption regarding the noise is wrong, ...

    • Simulation study of the transient recovery voltage (TRV) on circuit breaker 

      Hana, Abdull Halim; Nur Sabrina, Md Noorpi; Nurhakimah, Mohd Mukhtar; Melaty, Amirruddin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-09)
      This project is to present the transient recoveryvoltage on circuit breaker in power system network. Thetransient recovery voltage is a characteristic in power systemand will found just only microsecond in the power ...

    • Detection of wrist movement using EEG signal for brain machine interface 

      Farid, Ghani, Prof. Dr.; Gaur, Bhoomika; Varshney, Sidhika; Farooq, Omar; Khan, Yusufuzzama (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-06)
      Brain machine interfaces (BMIs) allow patients suffering from neuromuscular disorders to control the movement of robotic limb or wheelchair under their own guidance. So far only invasive technologies e.g. Electrocorticography ...

    • Modelling of critical slopes of gait patterns for the realization of a wireless foot clearance measurement 

      Norantanum, Abu Bakar; Yufridin, Wahab, Dr.; Yasmani, Awang; Safizan, Shaari (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-04)
      Gait analysis measurement is a method to access and identify gait events and the measurements of dynamic and motion parameters involving the lower part of body. This significant method is widely used in sports, rehabilitation ...

    • A new technique of bone thickness measurement for Pedicle Screw insertion safety purpose 

      Muhamad Khairul, Ali Hassan; Nagamune, Kouki (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-07)
      Pedicle Screw (PS) was originally accomplished for Spinal fixation but it has several limitations. If the pedicle screw passes though the cortex bone in surgery, it has a risk to damage the spinal cord and vertebral artery, ...

    • New modulation strategy for three-phase current source inverters 

      Shahrul Ashikin, Azmi; Adam, Grain Philip; Williams, Barry Wayne (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-05)
      This paper proposes a new regular sampled pulse width modulation (PWM) for three-phase current source inverters. The theoretical basis of the proposed modulation strategy is described, including dwell time calculations and ...

    • Implementing eigen features methods/neural network for EEG signal analysis 

      Saidatul Ardeenawatie, Awang; Pandiyan, Paulraj Murugesa, Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-01)
      This paper presented the possibility of implementing eigenvector methods to represent the features of electroencephalogram signal. In this study, three eigenvector methods were investigated namely Pisarenko, Multiple Signal ...