Conference Papers: Recent submissions
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Deriving domain knowledge from unstructured information: A forecasting framework based on judgmental adjustment approach
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)The integration of quantitative and judgmental forecasting methods have been increasingly applied to give better performance to forecast. Judgmental adjustment is one instance of integrating both methods and it has been ... -
Design and development of tripod hopping robot
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)In this paper, we discuss on the validity of using infrared ranging sensor instead of using ultrasonic ranging sensor for the developed tripod hopping robot. The infrared sensor is mounted on the shared platform and the ... -
Development of highly selective electronic nose using molecular imprinted polymer (MIP) for recognition of fruit ripeness
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2012-02-27)Traditionally, fruits are harvested through conventional methods which are based on smell, texture and harvesting time. This analytical technique has many disadvantages in terms of objectivity and subjectivity. Electronic ... -
Wireless sensor networks propagation study in mixed-crop farming
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)A study on the performance of wireless systems from a network coverage and link quality perspectives is critical to ensure a reliable and cost effective deployment of the network in mixed-crop farm area. This paper presents ... -
A systems thinking approach in Kansei marketing and its behaviours as complex system
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)The primary purpose of this paper is to discuss that sensibility-driven marketing called as Kansei marketing, from the viewpoint of the systems thinking. It is known that the systems thinking gives a basic idea of the ... -
Bird nest shape quality assessment using machine vision system
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Swiftlets are birds contained within the four genera Aerodramus, Hydrochous, Schoutedenapus and Collocalia. They form the Collocaliini tribe within the swift family Apodidae. Swiftlet nest economy is currently envisaged ... -
Wireless sensor networks based solution for Harumanis yield monitoring
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Driven by high economic demand for Harumanis mango (a hybrid of Mangifera indica) both locally and for export, an experiment has been setup to monitor and control micro climate for Harumanis mango in greenhouse for yield ... -
Synchronous brain machine interface design using focused time delay networks
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Focused time delay neural network based design for a four-state Brain Machine Interface (BMI) to drive a wheelchair is analyzed. Motor imagery signals recorded noninvasively using two bipolar electrodes are used in the ... -
Performance of a time-dependent motion planning approach for a car-like robot in static environments
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Trajectory planning and obstacle avoidance are very important issues to obtain a smooth and collision-free navigation for an autonomous mobile robot. In this paper, the performance of a time-dependent motion planning ... -
Hospital nurse following robot: Hardware development and sensor integration
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Hospital nurse regularly bring her instrument to the patient using cart. They need to push or pull the cart to the patient bed and bring it back many times in a day. This can be a tiresome for nurse because they need ... -
Development of vision-based sensor of smart gripper for industrial applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)In recent years, robotic gripper is widely used for different tasks in various fields. Grippers operate with industrial robots for handling and manipulation of objects. Grippers also operate with hard automation for ... -
Development of vision-based sensor of smart gripper for industrial applications
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)In recent years, robotic gripper is widely used for different tasks in various fields. Grippers operate with industrial robots for handling and manipulation of objects. Grippers also operate with hard automation for ... -
Development of gesture database for an adaptive gesture recognition system
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)The use of human motions for the interaction between humans and computers is becoming an attractive alternative, especially through the visual interpretation of the human body motion. In particular, hand gesture is used ... -
The optimum embedded controller for handheld electronic nose
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Electronic nose (e-nose) is a non-destructive intelligent instrument that mimics human olfactory system to detect, discriminate and classify odour. The instrument have vast potential applications includes food quality ... -
Fingerprint recognition, gender classification based on minutiae points in biometrics
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Fingerprinting remains the best to establish personal identification and tracking criminals. Few researchers addressed the use of fingerprint for gender identification which will be more helpful in short listing ... -
Analysis of minutia extraction techniques in fingerprint recognition.
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)With the increasing emphasis on the automatic personal identification applications, biometrics especially fingerprint identification is the most reliable and widely accepted technique. A very important step in automatic ... -
GPSO versus GA in facial emotion detection
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)We recently proposed a modification to the widely known Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm so that it can be applied as a method for facial emotion recognition. We named our proposed modification to PSO as the ... -
Malaysian license plate recognition system
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)The growth of technology requested higher performance tools in order to fulfill human needs and market. This system is implemented to make human work easier besides can reduce the usage of human power and because of its ... -
A novel hybrid edge detection algorithm based on wavelet thresholding and ICA
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)We propose a robust edge detection method based on ICA-domain shrinkage1 (independent component analysis). It is known that most basis functions extracted from natural images by ICA are sparse and similar to localized ... -
An application of image processing for automated mixed household waste sorting system
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)The purpose of this project is to study the application of image processing in developing an efficient automated mechanical sorting system for mixed household waste. Usually paper and plastics are left uncollected from ...