School of Mechatronic Engineering (Articles): Recent submissions

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    • Ultrasonic process tomographic imaging sensor: An approach utilising transceivers method 

      Mohd Hafiz, Fazalul Rahiman; Zulkarnay, Zakaria; Ruzairi, Abdul Rahim (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2008-05-13)
      Direct analysis of the internal characteristics of process plant has become a widespread need in order to improve the design and operation of the equipment especially in liquid/gas two phase flows. In recent years, the ...

    • Circular discontinuities detection in welded joints using Circular Hough Transform 

      Hafizal, Yazid; Haniza, Yazid; Mohd Harun; Shukri Mohd; A. Aziz, Mohamed; Mohamed Rizon, Mohamed Juhari; Shaharudin, Sayutia (Elsevier B.V., 2007)
      Conventional radiography is one of the common non-destructive testing which employs manual image interpretation. The interpretation is very subjective and depends much on the inspector experience and working conditions. ...

    • Development of a PMV-based thermal comfort modelling 

      Shazmin Aniza, Abdul Shukor; Karl Kohlhof; Zul Azhar, Zahid Jamal (International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED)/ACTA Press, 2007-05)
      This paper concentrates on the modelling development for a PMV-based thermal comfort system. Operators can define their own expression towards the surroundings by inserting the respective value of PMV and the system will ...

    • EEG classification using radial basis PSO neural network for brain machine interfaces 

      Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Hamid, Adom (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2007-12)
      Brain Machine Interfaces use the cognitive abilities of patients with neuromuscular disorders to restore communication and motor functions. At present, only EEG and related methods, which have relatively short time constants, ...

    • Hardware implementation of multiple fan beam projection technique in optical fibre process tomography 

      Ruzairi, Abdul Rahim; Mohd Hafiz Fazalul, Rahiman; Lai, Chen Leong; Kok, San Chan; Jon, Fea Pang (Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), 2008-05)
      The main objective of this project is to implement the multiple fan beam projection technique using optical fibre sensors with the aim to achieve a high data acquisition rate. Multiple fan beam projection technique here ...

    • Japanese face emotions classification using lip features 

      Mohamad Rizon, Mohamed Juhari; Muthukaruppan, Karthigayan; Sazali, Yaacob; Nagarajan, R. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2007)
      In this paper, lip features are applied to classify the human emotion using a set of irregular ellipse fitting equations using Genetic algorithm. As Japanese, is considered in this study. All six universally accepted ...

    • Fast transient thermal analysis of Fourier and non-Fourier heat conduction 

      Loh, J. S.; Abdul Azid, Ishak; Seetharamu, Kankanhally N.; Quadir, Ghulam Abdul (Elsevier Ltd., 2007-10)
      In this paper, asymptotic waveform evaluation (AWE) has been successfully used for fast transient characterization of Fourier and non-Fourier heat conduction. The Fourier and non-Fourier equations are reduced to a system ...

    • Development of a personified face emotion recognition technique using fitness function 

      Muthukaruppan, Karthigayan; Mohd Rizon, Mohamed Juhari; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Masanori, Sugisaka; Sazali, Yaacob; Mohd Rozailan, Mamat; Hazry, Desa (Springer Japan, 2007-08-10)
      In this article, two subjects, one South East Asian (SEA) and the other Japanese, are considered for face emotion recognition using a genetic algorithm (GA). The parameters relating the face emotions in each case are ...

    • 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 ...

    • Dynamic characterization of flexible vibrating structures using Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) 

      Ismail, A. Y.; Ismail, R.; Mat Darus, I. Z (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2006)
      Flexible plate structures have broad applications, ranging from industrial area to space technology. The demand for thin, flexible plate structure has rapidly increased due to industrial evolutions. However, this type of ...

    • Fuzzy clustering for genetic algorithm based optimized ellipse data in classifying face emotion 

      Muthukaruppan, Karthigayan; Mohd Rizon, Mohamed Juhari; Sazali, Yaacob; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Masanori, Sugisaka; Mohd Rozailan, Mamat (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2007-10)
      In this paper, lip and eye features are applied to classify the human emotion using a set of irregular and regular ellipse fitting equations using genetic algorithm (GA). A South East Asian face is considered in this study. ...

    • Fine needle aspiration cytology evaluation for classifying breast cancer using artificial neural network 

      Nor Ashidi, Mat Isa; Esugasini, Subramaniam; Mohd Yusoff, Mashor; Nor Hayati, Othman (Science Publications, 2007)
      Thirteen cytology of fine needle aspiration image (i.e. cellularity, background information, cohesiveness, significant stromal component, clump thickness, nuclear membrane, bare nuclei, normal nuclei, mitosis, nucleus ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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. ...

    • Identification algorithms of flexible structure using neural networks 

      Ismail, Razali; Ismail, A.Y; Mat Darus, I.Z. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2006)
      This paper present an investigation into the development of identification system approaches for dynamic modelling characterization of a two dimensional flexible plate structures. The least square and recursive least square ...

    • An automated cervical pre-cancerous diagnostic system 

      Nor Ashidi, Mat-Isa; Mohd Yusoff Mashor; Nor Hayati, Othman (Elsevier B.V., 2008-01)
      Objective: This paper proposes to develop an automated diagnostic system for cervical pre-cancerous. Methods and data samples: The proposed automated diagnostic system consists of two parts; an automatic feature extraction ...

    • Automatic glass-slide capturing system for cervical cancer pre-screening program 

      Nor Rizuan, Mat Noor; Nor Ashidi, Mat Isa; Mohd Yusoff, Mashor; Kamal Zuhairi, Zamli; Mohammad Subhi Al-Batah (Science Publications, 2008)
      Clinical glass-slide capturing system is becoming an important part of telemedicine, medical database and diagnostic system that involves of microscope and image acquisition device which is digital camera. One of the areas ...

    • 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 ...

    • A low cost solution for post-biopsy complications using available RFA generator and coaxial core biopsy needle 

      Azlan, C. A.; Nasrul Fazli, Mohd Nasir; Ahmad Saifizul, Abdullah; Faizul, M.S.; Ng, K.H.; Abdullah, B.J.J. (Australia College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM), 2007)
      Percutaneous image-guided needle biopsy is typically performed in highly vascular organs or in tumours with rich macroscopic and microscopic blood supply. The main risks related to this procedure are haemorrhage and ...

    • A BI-RADS based expert systems for the diagnoses of breast diseases 

      Umi Kalthum, Ngah; Shalihatun Azlin, Aziz; Mohd Ezane, Aziz; Mazeda, Murad; Nik Munirah, Nik Mahdi; Ali Yeon, Md Shakaff; Nor Ashidi, Mat Isa; Mohd Yusoff, Mashor; Mohd. Rizal, Arshad (Science Publications, 2007)
      We proposed an expert system based on the interpretation of mammographic and ultrasound images that may be used by expert and non-expert doctors in the interpretation and classifying of patient cases. The expert system ...