Browsing School of Mechatronic Engineering (Articles) by Title

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    • Impact response of thin-walled tubes: A prospective review 

      Fauziah, Mat; Khairul Azwan, Ismail, Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Inayatullah, Othman (Trans Tech Publications, 2012-04)
      Thin-walled structures have been widely used in various structural applications asimpact energy absorbing devices. During an impact situation, thin-walled tubesdemonstrate excellent capability in absorbing greater energy ...

    • Implementation of 128/256 bit data bus microprocessor core on FPGA 

      Weng, Fook Lee; Ali Yeon, Md. Shakaff, Prof. Dr. (International Congress for global Science and Technology (ICGST), 2007-05)
      This paper shows the implementation of a large data bus size microprocessor core of 128/256 bits on an Altera Stratix 2 FPGA using a superscalar architecture of 3 parallel pipes with 4 stage pipeline as shown in Figure ...

    • Improved back propagation neural network for the diagnosis of pathological voices 

      Paulraj, M.P.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Sivanandam, S. N.; Hariharan, Muthusamy (Association for Advancedment of Modelling and Simulation Techniques in Entreprises (A.M.S.E), 2008)
      Most of vocal and voice diseases cause changes in the voice. ENT clinicians use acoustic voice analysis to characterize the pathological voices. Nowadays, voice diseases are increasing dramatically due to unhealthy social ...

    • Improved classification of Orthosiphon stamineus by data fusion of electronic nose and tongue sensors 

      Ammar, Zakaria; Ali Yeon, Md. Shakaff, Prof. Dr.; Abdul Hamid, Adom, Assoc. Prof. Dr.; Mohd Noor, Ahmad; Maz Jamilah, Masnan; Abdul Hallis, Abd Aziz; Nazifah, Ahmad Fikri; Abu Hassan, Abdullah; Latifah Munirah, Kamarudin (MDPI Publishing, 2010-09-28)
      An improved classification of Orthosiphon stamineus using a data fusion technique is presented. Five different commercial sources along with freshly prepared samples were discriminated using an electronic nose (e-nose) and ...

    • An improved defect classification algorithm for six printing defects and its implementation on real printed circuit board images 

      Ismail, Ibrahim; Zuwairie, Ibrahim; Kamal, Khalil; Musa, Mohd Mokji; Syed Abdul Rahman, Syed Abu Bakar; Norrima, Mokhtar; Wan Khairunizam, Wan Ahmad (ICIC International, 2012-05)
      Because decisions made by human inspectors often involve subjective judg- ment, in addition to being intensive and therefore costly, an automated approach for printed circuit board (PCB) inspection is preferred to eliminate ...

    • Infant cry classification to identify asphyxia using time-frequency analysis and radial basis neural networks 

      Muthusamy, Hariharan; Jeyaraman, Saraswathy; Sindhu, Ravindran; Wan Khairunizam, Wan Ahmad, Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Elsevier Ltd, 2012-08)
      A cry is the first verbal communication of infants and it is described as a loud, high-pitched sound made by infants in response to certain situations. Infant cry signals can be used to identify physical or psychological ...

    • Infant hungry recognition based on k-NN and Autoregressive Model 

      Muhammad Naufal, Mansor; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Shafriza Nisha, Basah, Dr.; Mohd Nazri, Rejab (American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved., 2013-11)
      To study their behaviour without knowing what their needs is another crucial issue. A lot of researches have been rapidly investigated. Thus, in this paper we proudly proposed a system to determine the hungry infant based ...

    • The influence of different core arrangements on magnetic properties of electrical sheets under one-dimensional magnetizing system 

      Aisyah Hartini, Jahidin; Mahadi, W.N.L.W. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2007-12-06)
      This paper is concerned with the measurement on the magnetic properties of electrical steels under one-dimensional magnetizing system at the frequency of 50 Hz. The magnetic properties were principally investigated by ...

    • The influence of surface types on foot kinematics during running and walking: a systematic review 

      Noor Arifah Azwani, Abdul Yamin; Khairul Salleh, Basaruddin; Wan Mohd Radzi, Rusli; Norazian, Razak; Ahmad Faizal, Salleh (Penerbit UTM Press, 2016)
      Variations in running or walking surfaces may contribute to injury, due to the modification of lower extremity motion depending on surface conditions. Limited sources clearly identify that injuries can be caused by altering ...

    • Initial study on optical fiber array to produce particle size information for hydraulic process 

      Yusri, Md. Yunos; Ruzairi, Abdul Rahim; Siti Zarina, Mohd Muji; Mohd Hafiz Fazalul Rahiman, Dr.; Muhammad Jaysuman, Pusppanathan (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013-08)
      This paper presents the results of investigations carried out to determine the feasibility of using optical fibers to produce particle size information of hydraulic processes. The results have been obtained using a static ...

    • Innovative concepts for newborn pain based systems with Hu moment and similar classifier 

      Muhammad Naufal, Mansor; Mohd Nazri, Rejab (Trans Tech Publications Inc., 2014)
      Image analysis of infant pain has been proven to be an excellent tool in the area of automatic detection of pathological status of an infant. This paper investigates the application of parameter weighting for invariant ...

    • Inovasi dalam kejuruteraan mekatronik: Perbandingan pencapaian pelajar yang berorentasikan kemahiran analisis dengan berorentasikan sosial 

      Zol Bahri, Razali, Dr. (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), 2009)
      Conventional ways of teaching Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineering subjects are no longer relevant. With the expending of latest technology, students need to be exposed with real-life apparatus to increase the awareness ...

    • Inter-hemispheric EEG coherence analysis in Parkinson's disease: Assessing brain activity during emotion processing 

      Yuvaraj, Rajamanickam; Murugappan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Norlinah, Mohamed Ibrahim, Dr.; Sundaraj, Kenneth, Prof. Dr.; Mohammad Iqbal, Omar@Ye Htut, Assoc. Prof. Dr.; Khairiyah, Mohamad; Palaniappan, Ramaswamy; Satiyan, Marimuthu (Springer-Verlag Wien, 2014-06)
      Parkinson's disease (PD) is not only characterized by its prominent motor symptoms but also associated with disturbances in cognitive and emotional functioning. The objective of the present study was to investigate the ...

    • Internet of Things (IoT) Fall Detection using Wearable Sensor 

      Loh Mei, Yee; Lim Chee, Chin; Chong Yen, Fook; Maslia, Dali; Shafriza Nisha, Basah (IOP Publishing, 2019)
      The IoT fall detection system detects the fall through the data classification of falling and daily living activity. It includes microcontroller board (Arduino Mega 2560), Inertial Measurement Unit sensor (Gy-521 mpu6050) ...

    • An introduction of two differential excitation potentials technique in electrical capacitance tomography 

      Elmy Johana, Mohamad, Dr.; Ruzairi, Abdul Rahim, Prof. Dr.; Leow, Pei Ling, Dr.; Mohd Hafiz Fazalul, Rahiman, Dr.; Omar Mohd Faizan, Marwah; Nor Muzakkir, Nor Ayob; Herlina, Abdul Rahim, Dr.; Fazlul Rahman, Mohd Yunus (Elsevier B.V., 2012-06)
      The investigation of this work is to analyse the sensitivity distributions using single and two differential excitation potentials techniques in order to improve the situation of: (1) non-uniform sensitivity distribution; ...

    • Investigation of conducting pins in sphere filled with phase change material for enhancing heat transfer in thermal energy storage 

      Nasrul Amri, Mohd Amin; Bruno, Frank, Dr.; Belusko, Martin (Trans Tech Publications., 2012)
      The utilisation of phase change material (PCM) for thermal energy storage (TES) can significantly enhance the energy savings achievable with renewable thermal systems. Sphere based packed bed systems have been used as TES ...

    • Investigation of facial artifacts on face biometrics using eigenface based single and multiple neural networks 

      Sundaraj, Kenneth (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Press, 2009)
      Biometrics has been an important issue pertaining to security in the last few decades. Departments or agencies entrusted with national security are increasingly installing surveillance cameras in strategic or critical areas ...

    • Investigation of water hammer effect through pipeline system 

      Tan, Wee Choon; Prakash, Churia; Lim, Eng Aik; Teoh, Thean Hin (Indonesian Society for Knowledge and Human Development (INSIGHT), 2012)
      This paper we study the condition where the water hammer effect is occurs in pipe line. Water hammer can cause the pipe to break if the pressure is high enough. The experiment will be set-up to investigate the water hammer ...

    • An investigation on visual and audiovisual stimulus based emotion recognition using EEG 

      Murugappan, M.; Mohd Rizon, Mohammed Juhari; Nagarajan, Ramachandran, Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2009-01)
      In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using visual and audio visual stimulus for detecting the human emotion by measuring electroencephalogram (EEG). Visual and audiovisual stimulus based protocols is designed ...

    • Iris recognition system by using support vector machines 

      Ali, H.; Salami, M.J.E; Wahyudi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2008)
      In recent years, with the increasing demands of security in our networked society, biometric systems for user verification are becoming more popular. Iris recognition system is a new technology for user verification. In ...