Conference Papers: Recent submissions
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Moving vehicle identification using artificial neural network
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Hearing impaired people cannot distinguish the sound from a moving vehicle approaching from their behind. They often face a risky situation while they are in outdoors. In this paper, a simple algorithm is proposed to ... -
Image quality assessment using Elman neural network model
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Measurement of visual quality is of fundamental importance for numerous image and video processing applications, where the goal of quality assessment algorithms is to automatically assess the quality of images or videos ... -
PSO-particle filter-based length estimation in human tracking
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Today, high quality results are expected of security and surveillance systems. These systems must not only track the real sizes and motions of humans, but also, in some situations, they must track features such as width ... -
Game theory-based two–echelon logistic models for competitive behaviors
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)This paper considers the optimal solutions under cooperative circumstance of the two-echelon model among logistic service providers (LSPs) with Stackelberg structure. Assuming duopolistic shippers and oligopolistic forwarders ... -
Simulation and analysis of switched reluctance motor using fuzzy controller
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)This project presents the idea of using the switched reluctance motor (SRM) as an alternative to previously used drives, in white good and other industrial applications. In order to show the advantage of the SRM, the ... -
Gesture recognition based on hand postures and trajectories by using dataglove: A fuzzy probability approach – A review
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Many deaf people communicate with hearing people either through interpreter or text writing. However, some of them are able to use sign language (SL). SL is a language which determines a form of nonverbal communication ... -
Classification of vehicle noise comfort level using feedforward neural network
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A phoneme based sign language recognition system using interleaving feature and neural network
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)A sign language is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns. Sign languages are commonly developed in hearing impaired communities, which can include ... -
Harmony Search algorithm-based gasoline consumption modeling for Indonesia
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Indonesia is facing the discrepancy problem of the realized amount of gasoline consumption from the planned consumption. The discrepancy has burdened Indonesian national’s budget, because these unplanned imported amount ... -
Studying the hydrodynamic characteristics of Sprint Master canoe
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-27)The hydrodynamic characteristics of the Sprint Master canoe that is used in Universiti Teknology Malaysia (UTM) have been studied at different speeds using experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods. ... -
A computational simulation of heat transfer to separation air flow in a concentric pipe
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-27)Separation and reattachment of air flow through a sudden expansion in an annular passage is investigated. Backward facing steps play a vital role in the design of many heat related applications where heat transfer ... -
Performance of a solar assisted heat pump using different refrigerants
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-27)In this paper, an experimental study on the performance of a direct expansion solar assisted heat pump, (DESAHP), using two different refrigerants is presented. Refrigerants R-22 and R 407C were tested in a solar collector ... -
Experimental and mathematical investigation of a direct contact economizer effect on pollutant emission and energy consumption
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-27)This study deals with exploitation of a pilot-scale twophase, direct contact heat exchanger, called supermizer, and its significant impact on energy saving and pollution reduction. Experiments were performed using water ... -
Utilization of Biofuels by a new technique to reduce NOx and Smoke emissions in diesel engines
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-27)In this study a novel concept of dual fuelling has been investigated on a single cylinder, four stroke diesel engine with two types of supplementary oxygenates, ethanol and diethyl ether (DEE), and diesel fuel. The ... -
Thermodynamics analysis of transcritical ejector refrigeration cycle with different refrigerants
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-27)In this paper, a transcritical ejector refrigeration cycle using refrigerant R143a, R134a and R717 as working fluids are proposed to improve the performance of the ejector refrigeration systems. The method of solution ... -
Temperature profiling of a cylindrical Nuclear Fuel Rod through numerical and computational techniques
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-27)Accurate prediction of temperature profile of the fuel rod in a nuclear reactor is very important due to safety factors. The temperature distribution in steady state operation in the nuclear reactor is determined by thermal ... -
Numerical study of wall heat conduction effect in circular microchannels
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-27)The effects of wall axial heat conduction on the local Nusselt number at the entrance and ending region of the circular cross-section microchannel are numerically investigated. A correlation with considering of conjugate ... -
Numerical investigation of contaminant dispersion over two obstacles in unsteady flow
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-28)In this paper, the free incompressible flow over two obstacles with the presence of a condensing source dispensing contaminant in the flow is numerically investigated in both steady and unsteady states. Concentration ... -
Injection timing optimization in term of in-cylinder heat transfer analysis for direct injection hydrogen fueled engine
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-27)Injection timing optimization in terms of in-cylinder heat transfer analysis for direct injection hydrogen fueled engine was investigated through simulation, while the experimental data was utilized for validation purpose ... -
Energy saving in refrigeration systems through the application of liquid pressure amplification
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Mekatronik, 2012-02-27)The LPA technology utilises a refrigerant pump in the liquid line after the receiver to maintain a high enough pressure differential across the expansion valve to compensate for the pressure drop in long liquid lines. ...