School of Mechatronic Engineering (Articles): Recent submissions

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    • Performance comparison of the artificial neural network and the k-nearest nieghbor classifiers in classroom speech intelligibility prediction application 

      Mohd Ridhwan Tamjis; M. Naufal Mansor; Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Assoc. Prof.; A. Nazri Abdullah; Raymond B. W. Heng; Sazali Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Science Academy, 2011-03)
      Classroom speech intelligibility has become one of the major concerns in education nowadays. In any classrooms and educational facilities, an optimal speech intelligibility level is required to ensure that the listeners ...

    • Adaptive Neuro-Controller for three-axes attitude control of innovative satellite 

      Siti Maryam, Sharun; Mohd Yusoff, Mashor, Prof. Dr.; M. N. Norhayati; W. N. Hadani; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Science Academy Publisher, 2011-03)
      There exists so many disturbance torques in space which may deviate the satellite from the desired attitude. To overcome the effects of the disturbance torques some stabilization has to be provided to the satellite. This ...

    • Adaptive Neuro-Controller for three axes attitude control of innovative satellite 

      Siti Maryam Sharun; Mohd Yusof Mashor, Prof. Dr.; M. N. Norhayati; W. N. Hadani; Sazali Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Science Academy, 2011-03)
      There exists so many disturbance torques in space which may deviate the satellite from the desired attitude. To overcome the effects of the disturbance torques some stabilization has to be provided to the satellite. This ...

    • Flow behavior characteristic for injection process using nano-yttria stabilized zirconia for micro metal injection molding (μMIM) 

      Farhana, Mohd Foudzi; Norharmidi, Muhamad; Abu Bakar, Sulong; Hafizawati, Zakaria (Trans Tech Publications, 2011)
      Micro metal injection molding (μMIM) prior to conventional plastic injection molding (PIM) has become widely demanding due to its smaller size, more complex geometric surface and time consuming on its product. Metal and ...

    • Computation of stress intensity factor for multiple cracks using singular finite element 

      Ruslizam, Daud; Ahmad Kamal, Ariffin; Shahrum, Abdullah; A. Emran, Ismail; A., Zulkifli (Trans Tech Publications, 2011)
      The simplification of two dimensional approaches in singular finite elements has promoted the method to be used in the formulation of stress intensity factor (SIF) of multiple cracks in finite body. The effect of shielding ...

    • J-integral evaluation in two dimensional interacting cracks 

      Ruslizam, Daud; Ahmad Kamal, Ariffin; Shahrum, Abdullah; A. Emran, Ismail (Trans Tech Publications, 2011)
      This paper investigates crack interaction of multiple edge cracks in elastic solid finite body under pure Mode I loading. The cracks are located in parallel to another in 2D plate model. The stress intensity factors (SIFs) ...

    • Fatigue failure analysis using the theory of critical distance 

      Ruslizam, Daud; Ahmad Kamal, Ariffin; Shahrum, Abdullah; A. Emran, Ismail (Trans Tech Publications, 2011)
      This paper explores the initial potential of theory of critical distance (TCD) which offers essential fatigue failure prediction in engineering components. The intention is to find the most appropriate TCD approach for a ...

    • 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 ...

    • A disposable sensor for assessing artocarpus heterophyllus l. (jackfruit) maturity 

      Yap, Maxsim Mee Sim; Mohd Noor, Ahmad, Prof. Dr.; Ali Yeon, Md Shakaff, Prof. Dr.; Chang, Pek Ju; Chang, Chew Cheen (MDPI, 2003)
      The purpose of this work was an attempt to monitor the ripeness process and to investigate the different maturity stages of jackfruit by chemometric treatment of the data obtained from the disposable sensor. Response of ...

    • Face recognition using eigenfaces and neural networks 

      Mohamed Rizon; Muhammad Firdaus, Hashim; Puteh, Saad; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Mohd Rozailan, Mamat; Ali Yeon, Md Shakaff, Prof. Dr.; Abdul Rahman, Saad; Hazri, Desa, Dr.; Karthigayan, M. (Science Publications, 2006)
      In this study, we develop a computational model to identify the face of an unknown person’s by applying eigenfaces. The eigenfaces has been applied to extract the basic face of the human face images. The eigenfaces is ...

    • Object detection using circular hough transform 

      Mohamed Rizon; Haniza, Yazid; Puteh, Saad; Ali Yeon, Md Shakaff, Prof. Dr.; Abdul Rahman, Saad; Sugisaka, Manasori; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; M. Rozailan, Mamat; Karthigayan, M. (Science Publications, 2005)
      In this study we propose a new system to detect the object from an input image. The proposed system first uses the separability filter proposed by Fukui and Yamaguchi (Trans. IEICE Japan J80-D-II. 8, 2170-2177, 1997) to ...

    • Object detection using geometric invariant moment 

      Mohamed Rizon; Haniza, Yazid; Puteh, Saad; Ali Yeon, Md Shakaff, Prof. Dr.; Abdul Rahman, Saad; Mohd Rozailan, Mamat; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Hazri, Desa, Dr.; Karthigayan, M. (Science Publications, 2006)
      Geometric moment invariant produces a set of feature vectors that are invariant under shifting, scaling and rotation. The technique is widely used to extract the global features for pattern recognition due to its discrimination ...

    • Brain machine interface: Analysis of segmented EEG signal classification using short-time PCA and recurrent neural networks 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Assoc. Prof.; Nagarajan, Ramachandran, Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Abdul Hamid, Adom, Prof. Madya (University of Basrah, 2008)
      Brain machine interface provides a communication channel between the human brain and an external device. Brain interfaces are studied to provide rehabilitation to patients with neurodegenerative diseases; such patients ...

    • 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 ...

    • Estimation of carrageenan concentration by using ultra sonic waves and back propagation neural networks 

      Prasad, Reddy; Krishnaiah, Duduku; Awang, Bono; Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Prof. Madya; Rosli, Mohd Yunus; Naveena Lakshmi (Asian Network for Scientific Information, 2010)
      The application of Artificial Neural Networks in chemical engineering field is being under immense research. One of the physical properties of every material has its own intensity to absorb the sound waves. Carrageenans ...

    • An adaptive predictive fuzzy logic for the altitude control of a micro-satellite 

      Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Pandiyan, Paulraj Murugesa, Prof. Madya Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Zuraidah, Md Zain, Prof. Dr.; Rusli, R. (Association pour la promotion des techniques de modelisation et de simulation dans l'entreprise Press, 2009)
      This paper deals with the attitude control of a micro-satellite in space using fuzzy logic principles. A micro-satellite in space can behave in an un-predictive way due the effect of variations in its system parameters and ...

    • Time-domain features and probabilistic neural network for the detection of vocal fold pathology 

      Hariharan, Muthusamy; Paulraj, Murugesa Pandiyan, Prof. Madya; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Universiti Malaya, 2010)
      Due to the nature of job, unhealthy social habits and voice abuse, people are subjected to the risk of voice problems. It is well known that most of vocal fold pathologies cause changes in the acoustic voice signal. ...

    • High degree of testability using full scan chain and ATPG-An industrial perspective 

      Mamun, Ibne Reaz; Lee, W. F.; Hamid, N. H.; Lo, H. H.; Ali Yeon, Mohd Shakaff, Prof. Dr. (Asian Network for Scientific Information, 2009)
      This study describes an efficient design methodology from an industrial perspective on utilizing Register Transfer Level (RTL) coding style, full scan chain implementation and Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) to ...

    • Classification of human emotion from eeg using discrete wavelet transform 

      Murugappan, M.; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Scientific Research Publishing Inc, 2010-04)
      In this paper, we summarize the human emotion recognition using different set of electroencephalogram (EEG) channels using discrete wavelet transform. An audio-visual induction based protocol has been designed with more ...

    • Plasma disinfection and the deterioration of surgical tools at atmospheric pressure plasma 

      Siti Khadijah, Zaaba; Akitsu, Tetsuya; Ohkawa, Hiroshi; Katayama-Hirayama, Keiko; Tsuji, Masao; Shimizu, Naohiro; Imanishi, Yuichirou (The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, 2010)
      The purpose of this paper is to present and compare disinfection effect of plasma by means of Atmospheric Pressure Glow plasma and streamer discharge. Geobacillus stearothermophilus was used as biological indicator for ...