Browsing School of Mechatronic Engineering (Articles) by Title

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    • Paraffinic mineral oil lubrication for cold forward extrusion: Effect of lubricant quantity and friction 

      Mohd Hafis, Sulaiman; Mohd Ridzuan, Mohd Jamir; Nur Farahana, Ramli; Syahrullail, Samion (Elsevier Ltd., 2013)
      In this paper, Finite Element (FE) and experimental analyses have been developed on the deformation of aluminium billet over a tool. Effect of friction resulted from the use of additive-free ISO460-compliant paraffinic ...

    • Pathological infant cry analysis using wavelet packet transform and probabilistic neural network 

      Muthusamy, Hariharan; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Saidatul Ardeenaawatie, Awang (Elsevier Ltd., 2011-11)
      A new approach has been presented based on the wavelet packet transform and probabilistic neural network (PNN) for the analysis of infant cry signals. Feature extraction and development of classification algorithms play ...

    • Patients tremble analysis under different camera placement in critical care 

      Muhammad Naufal, Mansor; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; R. Nagarajan, Prof. Dr.; Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr. (Science Academy, 2011-03)
      This paper presents an integrated system for detecting facial changes of patient in a hospital in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). In this research we have considered the facial changes most widely represented by eyes and mouth ...

    • PCB inspection for missing or misaligned components using background subtraction 

      Sundaraj, Kenneth (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Press, 2009)
      Automated visual inspection (AVI) is becoming an integral part of modern surface mount technology (SMT) assembly process. This high technology assembly, produces printed circuit boards (PCB) with tiny and delicate electronic ...

    • Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient Analysis of non-invasive Jaundice Detection based on Colour Card Technique 

      Asyraf Hakimi, Abu Bakar; Mohd Najmuddin, Mohd Hassan; Ammar, Zakaria; Ahmad Ashraf, Abdul Halim (IOP Publishing, 2019)
      Jaundice is describes as yellow discoloration of the skin and other tissues of a newborn infant. It happens when the bilirubin pigment rises up to 5 mg/dL or 85 μmol/L due the organs just started to developed. 75% of ...

    • Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine running on blended palm oil 

      M. Iqbal, A.; Zainal Alimuddin, Zainal Alauddin, Dr.; Musalmah, Mazlan, Prof. Dr.; Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri, Abdullah; Mohammad Shahril, Salim (Trans Tech Publications, 2013)
      Rapid increasing of industrialization and motorization has led arising of petroleum and energy demand. This pursue a new energy blends to cater the depletion of fossil fuel and the environmental degradation condition. ...

    • 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 ...

    • Performance of thermoelectric cooling system: effect of aluminium heat sink and heat dissipation 

      Mohd Hafis, Sulaiman; Mohd Ridzuan, Mohd Jamir; Ahmad Firdaus, Ahmad Zaidi; Mohammad Shahril, Salim; Nur Farahana, Ramli; Cheong, Chee Kin (Trans Tech Publications, 2014)
      This paper presents theoretical and experimental research works on the effect of aluminium heat sink and heat dissipation in a portable thermoelectric (TE) cooling system. In this study, three units of TE modules were ...

    • Personalized face emotion classification using optimized data of three features 

      Muthukaruppan, Karthigayan; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Mohd Rizon, Mohamed Juhari; Sazali, Yaacob (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2007)
      In this paper, lip and eye features are applied to classify the human emotion through a set of irregular and regular ellipse fitting equations using Genetic algorithm (GA). South East Asian face is considered in this study. ...

    • 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 ...

    • PNN based driver drowsiness level classification using EEG 

      Mousa Kadhim, Wali; Murugappan, Muthusamy, Dr.; R. Badlishah, Ahmad, Prof. Dr. (JATIT & LLS. All rights reserved, 2013-06)
      In this work, we classify the driver drowsiness level (awake, drowsy, high drowsy and sleep stage1) based on different wavelets and probabilistic neural network classifier using wireless EEG signals. Deriving the amplitude ...

    • Principle component analysis for the classification of fingers movement data using dataglove "glovemap" 

      Nazrul H., Adnan; Wan Khairunizam, Wan Ahmad, Dr.; Shahriman, Abu Bakar, Dr.; Juliana Aida, Abu Bakar (International Association for Engineeering and Management Education, 2013-03)
      Nowadays, many classifier methods have been used to classify or categorizehuman body motions of human posture including the classification of fingers movement. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of classical method ...

    • Probability Distribution of Arm Trajectory for Motion Estimation and Gesture Recognition 

      Wan Khairunizam, Wan Ahmad; Mohd Azri, Abdul Aziz; Shahriman, Abu Bakar; Siti Khadijah, Zaaba; Zuwairie, Ibrahim; Zulkifli, Md Yusof; Ismail, Ibrahim; Jameel Abdulla, Ahmed Mukred; N. Mokhtar (American Scientific Publishers, 2012-06-30)
      In the human motion measurement, motion capture system is used to record the movement of the human body by using different types of sensors such as a magnetic position sensor, a mechanical motion detector and a vision ...

    • Quantifying scheme for detection heterogeneous phase in a pipe vessel 

      Mohd Rizal, Manan; Muhammad Naufal, Mansor; Mohd Hafiz Fazalul, Rahiman; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Ruzairi, Abdul Rahim (Science Academy Publisher, 2011-03)
      This paper describes the different ultrasonic tomography for multiphase flow such as liquid/gas flow which commonly found in chemical columns and industrial pipelines. The information obtained through this research has ...

    • Real time mass flow rate measurement using multiple fan beam optical tomography 

      Ruzairi, Abdul Rahim; Lai, Chen Leong; Kok, San Chan; Mohd Hafiz Fazalul, Rahiman; Jon, Fea Pang (Elsevier, 2008)
      This paper presents the implementing multiple fan beam projection technique using optical fibre sensors for a tomography system. From the dynamic experiment of solid/gas flow using plastic beads in a gravity flow rig, the ...

    • Real-time background subtraction using adaptive thresholding and dynamic updating for biometric face detection 

      Sundaraj, Kenneth (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), 2008)
      Face biometrics is an automated method of recognizing a person's face based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. Face recognition works by first obtaining an image of a person. This process is usually known as ...

    • Real-time control of automotive engine fuelled with Malaysian palm oil biodiesel 

      Azuwir, Mohd Nor; Mohd Zaki, Abdulmuin, Prof. Dr.; Abdul Hamid, Adom, Prof. Dr. (Praise Worthy Prize S.r.l., 2012)
      With the rapid decline in energy resources, the increasing environmental concerns, and the high demand of energy consumption, many countries have been looking for alternative energy to substitute fossil fuel. One of the ...

    • Real-time detection of face and iris 

      Chai, Tong Yuen; Mohamed Rizon, Mohamed Juhari, Prof. Dr.; Muhammad Shazri (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), 2009-06)
      In this study, a computational algorithm has been developed to automatically detect human face and irises from color images captured by real-time camera. Haar cascade-based algorithm has been applied for simple and fast ...

    • Reckoning of facial grimacing scheme for patient agitation in critical care 

      Muhammad Naufal, Mansor; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Nagarajan, Ramachandran, Prof. Dr. (Science Academy Publisher, 2011-03)
      Reckoning patient grimacing in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a crucial demand in checking routine procedure. Despite of detecting any physical change in the body of the patient, medical staff has to go up and down to the ...

    • Rehabilitation systems for physically disabled patients: A brief review of sensor-based computerised signal-monitoring systems 

      Nizam Uddin, Ahamed; Sundaraj, Kenneth, Assoc. Prof. Dr.; R. Badlishah, Ahmad, Prof. Dr.; Matiur J., Rahman; Md. Asraf, Ali; Md. Anamul, Islam; Palaniappan, Rajkumar (Scientific Publishers of India, 2013)
      This brief review addresses the existing systems and challenges and provides future recommendations on computer- and biosensor-assisted rehabilitation systems for physically disabled patients. We further list the types of ...