Organizing committee

 

Patron

Assoc. Prof. Dr Yusof Md Salleh

Dean, Faculty of EE, UiTM

 

General Chair

Prof. Dr Mohd Nasir Taib

 

Secretary I

Mohd Hezri Fazalul Rahiman

 

Secretary II

Rozita Jailani

 

Finance Chair/ Sponsorship Chair

Zuriati Janin

 

Technical Program Chair

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ramli Adnan

 

Technical Program Co-Chair

Assoc. Prof. Nooritawati Md. Tahir

 

Local Arrangement Chair / Registration Chair

Ruhizan Liza Ahmad Shauri

 

Publication Chair

Mohd Faidz Hj. Mohd Said

 

Publicity Chair / Web Manager

Ahmad Ihsan Mohd Yassin

 

IEEE Representative

Dr. Zuhaina Zakaria

 

Administration

Hamidah Mohd Nasir

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Programs

 

Day 1: 7th March 2008

 

 

 

 

2.30 pm

Hotel check-in

3.30 pm – 5.00 pm

Conference registration @ Hotel lobby

7.30 pm – 10.30 pm

Dinner @ Sunflower Brasserie

 

 

 

Day 2: 8th March 2008

 

 

 

7.30 am – 8.00 am

Breakfast @ Sunflower Brasserie

8.00 am – 8.30 am

Welcoming address @ Tiara 1

8.30 am – 10.40 am

Parallel session A1 and B1

10.40 am – 11.00 am

Tea break @ Tiara Foyer

11.00 am – 1.00 pm

Parallel session A2 and B2

1.10 pm – 2.10 pm

Lunch @ Sunflower Brasserie

2.10 pm – 4.20 pm

Parallel session A3, B3 & C3

4.20 pm – 4.40 pm

Tea break @ Tiara Foyer

4.40 pm – 6.10 pm

Parallel session A4, B4 & C4

7.30 pm – 10.00 pm

Dinner @ Sunflower Brasserie

 

 

 

Day 3: 9th March 2008

 

 

 

7.30 am – 8.30 am

Breakfast @ Sunflower Brasserie

8.30 am – 10.40 am

Panel session A5, B5 & C5

10.40 am – 11.00 am

Coffee break @ Tiara Foyer

11.00 am – 1.10 pm

Panel session A6, B6 & C6

1.10 pm – 2.00 pm

Lunch @ Sunflower Brasserie

12.00 pm

 

Check-out

 

 

 


Parallel session A1 - DAY 1 – 8th March 2008

Time: 8.30 am – 10.30 am

Venue: Room Tiara 1

 

 

 

8.30 am – 8.40 am

A1.01 # A886

Investigation of Frequency Characteristic in Discrete
Pascal Transform and Its Applications

Sorawat Chivapreecha, Ussanai Nithirochananont and Kobchai Dejhan

8.40 am – 8.50 am

A1.02 # A959

Electroencephalogram (EEG) Brain-Wave Feature Extraction Using Short-Time Fourier Transform

Emran Mohd Tamil, Haslina Mohd. Radzi, Mohd Yamani Idna Idris, Zaidi Razak,  and Azmi Mohd Tamil

8.50 am – 9.00 am

A1.03 # A962

Quranic Verse Recitation Feature Extraction Using Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC)

Zaidi Razak, Noor Jamaliah Ibrahim, Emran Mohd Tamil, Mohd Yamani Idna Idris, and Mohd. Yakub @ Zulkifli Bin Mohd Yusoff

9.00 am – 9.10 am

A1.04 # A957

Conditioning of fourth order cross-cumulant slices in blind deconvolution to reduce noise effect of the severely distorted semsic data

Muhammad Shahzad Younis, and Ahmed Fadzil Hani, M.Ahsan

9.10 am – 9.20 am

A1.05 # A890

On-Device Implementation of an Automatic Filipino Speech Recognition System

Federico M. Ang and Rowena Cristina L. Guevara

9.20 am – 9.30 am

A1.06 # A971

Robust speaker recognition using missing feature theory for reconstruction of spectral peaks of autocorrelation sequence.

Amir Hossein. Hadjahmadi, Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour and Seyed Mohammad Ahadi

9.30 am – 9.40 am

A1.07 # A960

Heartbeat Electrocardiogram (ECG) Signal Feature Extraction Using Discrete Wavelet Transforms (DWT)

Emran M. Tamil, Nor Hafeezah Kamarudin, Rosli Salleh, M. Yamani Idna Idris, Noorzaily M.Noor,  and Azmi Mohd Tamil

9.40 am – 9.50 am

A1.08 # A934

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using Micro Controllers

P.Lakshmi Swetha and T.Pallavi

9.50 am – 10.00 am

A1.09 # A940

Fast Construction of Disposable Prefix-Free Codes

Danny Dub´e  and Vincent Beaudoin

10.00 am – 10.10 am

A1.10 # A958

The use of discrete prolate spheroidal sequences for modeling short time noisy seismic traces

Muhammad Shahzad Younis, andAhmed Fadzil Hani, M. Ahsan

10.10 am – 10.20 am

A1.11 # A887

Modified Pascal Matrix for Biquad Digital Filter Design and Its Filter Structure Realization

Sorawat Chivapreecha, Aungkana Jaruvarakul and Kobchai Dejhan

10.20 am – 10.40 am

Q&A session

 


Parallel session A2 -- DAY 1 – 8th March 2008

Time: 11.00 am – 1.00 pm

Venue: Room Tiara 1

 

 

 

11.00 am – 11.10 am

A2.01 # A846

Artificial Intelligent Based Friction Identification using Multilayer Feedforward Network

Wahyudi, Ismaila B. Tijani and Nur Liyana Tajul Lile

11.10 am – 11.20 am

A2.02 #A881

Application of Fuzzy Logic Control for Roof-Top Bus Multi-Circuit Air Conditioning System

H. Nasution, M. N. Musa, H. Abdullah, M. N. W. Hassan, M. A. Baharain, and M. K. Mansour

11.20 am – 11.30 am

A2.03 #A835

Automatic Motorbike Engine Fault Diagnosing System Using Functional Link Neural Network in Wavelet Domain

Paulraj M P, Mohd Shukry Abdul Majid, Sazali Yaacob, M. Hariharan and Mohd Zubir Md Zin

11.30 am – 11.40 am

A2.04 #A874

A MATLAB based Face Recognition System using Image Processing and Neural Networks

Jawad Nagi, Syed Khaleel Ahmed and Farrukh Nagi

11.40 am – 11.50 am

A2.05 #A823

Automated Interior Parked Vehicle Heat Discharger Using Fuzzy Logic

Shaiful Izzuddin Bin Mohamad, Rosni Abu Kassim and Nooritawati Md Tahir

11.50 am – 12.00 pm

A2.06 # A927

Road surface roughness diagnostic Based on vehicle acceleration by using fuzzy neural network

A. Soleamani

12.00 pm – 12.10 pm

A2.07 #A947

Intelligent Active Force Control of a Manipulator Actuated by McKibben Artificial Muscles Using Fuzzy Logic

Hossein Jahanabadi, Musa Mailah, Mohd Zarhamdy Md Zain

12.10 pm – 12.20 pm

A2.08#A832

Neural Network Based Detection of Voice Disorders Using Energy Spectrum and Equal-Loudness Contours

Paulraj M P, Sazali Yaacob, S.N. Sivanandam and M.Hariharan

12.20 pm – 12.30 pm

A2.09 # A948

Wildfire Risk Assessment Using Fuzzy Artificial Neural Networks Estimation

M. Reza Mashinchi , M. Hadi Mashinchi, Ali Selamat

12.30 pm – 12.40 pm

A2.10 # A847

Artificial Intelligent Based Friction Compensation using Multilayer Feedforward Network

Wahyudi and Nur Muhammad Zaiyad Muda @ Ismail

12.40 pm – 12.50 pm

A2.11# A836

The Effect of Acoustic Environment on Classrooms Speech Intelligibility

Paulraj M P       Sazali Yaacob        Ahmad Nazri           M Thagirarani

12.50 pm – 1.10 pm

 Q&A session

 

 


Parallel session A3- DAY 1 – 8th March 2008

Time: 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Venue: Room Tiara 1

 

 

 

2.10 pm – 2.20pm

A3.01 #A888

On A Generalized Efficient Heart Sound Classifier System For Diagnosing Heart Disorders

Prashant Kumar and Kishan Kumar Venkatesan

2.20 pm – 2.30pm

 A3.02 # A816

Domestic Solid Waste Sorting Using Vision Sensor

Hema C. R, Paulraj M. P, Sazali Yaacob, Abdul Hamid Adom, Nagarajan R.,  D. Maheswaran, and R. Jaii Ganes

2.30 pm – 2.40pm

A3.03 # A815

Stereo Vision System For Assistive Smart Wheelchair

Hema C.R,   Paulraj M.P,    Abdul Hamid Adom,   Sazali Yaacob,   Nagarajan R. and   Mohamad Sulaiman Ibrahim

2.40 pm – 2.50pm

A3.04 # A842

Translation of Sign Language to Voice Signal through Head and Hand Gestures Recognition

Paulraj M P, Hazry Desa, Hema C.R., Mohd Hafiz Fazalul Rahiman,  M. Hariharan and Wan Mohd Ridzuan Wan Ab Majid

2.50 pm – 3.00pm

A3.05 #A866

A Practical Approach For Human Motion Understanding

Altahir A. Altahir, Vijanth S. Asirvadam and Patrick Sebastian

3.00 pm – 3.10pm

A3.06 #A826

ASTHRA “An Automated Robotic Vehicle for the Disabled patients using Embedded Systems”

Natarajan R and Dinesh Singh J.                                    

3.10 pm – 3.20pm

A3.07 #A930

Operational Space Dynamic Control of the Redundant Manipulator Using Power Module

Jeong-Soo Kim, Sang-Wook Jeon, Jae-Ho Oh and Doo-Sung Ahn

3.20 pm – 3.30pm

A3.08 #A976

Motion Coordination of Multi Agent Robots using Feedback Control

Salman Ahmed and  Mohd N. Karsiti.

3.30 pm – 3.40pm

A3.09 # A885

Efficient Hardware Realization for Discrete Pascal Transform Using Matrix Factorization

Narison Ronnarongrit, Sorawat Chivapreecha and Kobchai Dejhan

3.40 pm – 3.50pm

A3.10 # A952

FPGA Design of Boyer-Moore Algorithm for Spyware Detection

Mohd. Yamani Idna Idris, Emran Mohd. Tamil, Madihah Mohd Saudi and Wong Lim Chien

3.50 pm – 4.00pm

A3.11 #A814

Biometric Verification using Brain Signatures

Hema C.R,   Paulraj M.P,    Abdul Hamid Adom,    Sazali Yaacob,   Nagarajan R. and    Harkirenjit Kaur

4.00 pm – 4.20 pm

Q&A session

 


Parallel session A4 - DAY 1 – 8th March 2008

Time: 4.20 pm – 5.30 pm

Venue: Room Tiara 1

 

 

 

4.40 pm – 4.50 pm

A4.1 # A882

Study of the Gate-Induced Drain Leakage Current on N-MOSFETS

N. Soin and C. L. Yan

4.50 pm- 5.00 pm

A4.2 # A852

Designing a Digital Display Panel for Motorized Battery Operated Vehicle (MBOV)

N.Sulaiman and M.R.Mohamed, K.Amat

5.10 pm – 5.20 pm

A4.03 # A953

Review of Low Power Bandgap Voltage Reference for CMOS Mixed Signal Process

Asmah Truky, Norhayati Soin and Sairan Sakrani

5.20 pm – 5.30 pm

A4.04 # A963

Study the Effect of Drain Induced Barrier Lowering (DIBL) on P-Type MOSFET Device

Hashimah Hashim, Ahmad Sabirin Zoolfakar, and M.H.F.M. Safaia

5.30 pm – 5.40 pm

A4.05 # A977

Feedforward Multilayer Perceptron Supervised Learning for ISFET Sensor Arrays

Wan Fazlida Hanim Abdullah and Masuri Othman

5.40pm – 5.50 pm

A4.06 # A954

Review of Lithium-ion battery charger system and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) safety devices.

Khairi Bin Omar, Norhayati Soin, Wan Nor Liza Mahadi and Sairan Sakrani

5.50 pm – 6.00 pm

Q&A session

 


Parallel session B1 - DAY 1 – 8th March 2008

Time: 8.30 am – 10.30 am

Venue: Room Tiara 3

 

 

 

 

8.30 am – 8.40 am

 

B1.01 # A831

Design of Low-Power Field Programmable Analog Array based on OTA­ in 0.35 mM CMOS Technology

Rajendra Kanphade , Dr. M. Shojaei-Baghini, Manish Patil, Priti Gawande, Nitin Ingole and, Manisha Chhangani

8.40 am – 8.50 am

B1.02 # A990

Reduction Of Crosstalk By Adding Grounded Tracks On Printed Circuit Board

Ahmed Alferjani and Ahmed Elbarsha

8.50 am – 9.00 am

B1.03 # A827

An Efficient Rate Scalable Technique For Image Coding and Transmission

N.B. Chopade, A. A. Ghatol, and Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar

9.00 am – 9.10 am

B1.04 # A942

Object Recognition Using Correlation Technique

Sangeeta Kakarwal, Shubhangi Sapkal, Pradeep Ahire and Dr. D.S. Bormane

9.10 am – 9.20 am

B1.05 # A966

Parking Guidance System using RFID and Image Processing Techniques in WSN Environment

Mohd Yamani Idna Idris, Yong Yoke Leng, Emran Mohd. Tamil and Nor Zaidi Haron

9.20 am – 9.30 am

B1.06 # A985

Novel Face Recognition Method Using Bit-Wise Images in Neural Network

D.B.L. Bong and K.C. Ting

9.30 am – 9.40 am

B1.07 # A906

An Effective Method for License Plate Characters Segmentation

 Marwan D. Saleh, Hakim Mellah, Ahmed Mueen and Nbhan D. Salih

9.40 am – 9.50 am

B1.08 # A805

Shadow Removing Using Contourlet_based Image Fusion

Shirin Mahmoudi

9.50 am – 10.00 am

B1.09 # A873

Image Processing of a Banana: Area Determination via Edge Detection Using MATLAB

Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Aidil Azwin Zainul Abidin, Zaipatimah Ali, Wong Bing Yit, and Zainul Abidin Md Sharrif

10.00 am – 10.10 am

B1.10 # A822

Fourier Descriptor for Human Shape Recognition

Nooritawati Md Tahir, Aini Hussain, Salina Abdul Samad and Hafizah Husain                 

10.10 am – 10.20 am

B1.11 # A949

Hand Gesture Recognition using Rotation Invariant

Ratika Pradhan , Prateem Chakraborty, Prashant Sarawgi, Ankit Mehrotra, and Gaurav Agarwal

10.20 am – 10.40 am

Q&A session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel session B2-DAY 1 – 8th March 2008

Time: 11.00 am – 1.00 pm

Venue: Room Tiara 3

 

 

11.00 am – 11.10 am

B2.01 # A848

Algorithm Research  on Wavelet  Support Vector Machine

Lin Jipeng and Liu Junhua

11.10 am – 11.20 am

B2.02 #A817

Particle Swarm Neural Network Based Classification of EEG Mental Tasks

Hema C.R., Paulraj M.P, Sazali Yaacob, Abdul Hamid Adom and     Nagarajan R.

11.20 am – 11.30 am

B2.03 # A810

JSA Based Job shop scheduling Optimization

P.V Senthiil  and V.Selladurai

11.30 am – 11.40 am

B2.04 #A944

HOS-Based Non-Minimum Phase MA Parameter Estimation using Genetic Algorithm

M.Lankarany, M.H.Savoji

11.40 am – 11.50 am

B2.05# A993

Parallel Algorithm for Blind Source Separation

Ibrahim Elimam Abdalla, Abubakr Elsidig Mirghani El Hussien, Othman Khalifa and ,Aisha Hassan

11.50 am – 12.00 pm

B2.06 # A964

Map Route Extraction and Shortest Path Algorithm for Public Transport Information System

Mohd Yamani Idna Idris, Emran Mohd Tamil, Noorzaily Mohamed Noor, and Zaidi Razak

12.00 pm – 12.10 pm

B2.07 # A974

Sample Rate Converter from CD to DAT Using Truncated Lagrange Interpolation

Aseim Najem and Ahmed Elbarsha

12.10 pm – 12.20 pm

B2.08 # A862

CDMA Coverage and Capacity Optimization

Puneet Kumar and  Ankit Dua

12.20 pm – 12.30 pm

B2.09 # A975

Multiple Regression Approach for Inputs Selection in Electricity Consumption Forecasting

Dedy Purwanto and Herman Agustiawan

12.30 pm – 12.40 pm

B2.10 # A945

Deconvolution of non-Minimum Phase FIR Systems Using Recursive Genetic Algorithm

M.Lankarany  and M.H.Savoji

12.40 pm – 12.50 pm

B2.11 # A820

Model Order Selection Criterion for dengue infections using Autoregressive Model

H. Abdul Rahim, F. Ibrahim, and M. N. Taib

12.50 pm – 1.10 pm

 

Q&A session


Parallel session B3 - DAY 1 – 8th March 2008

Time: 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Venue: Room Tiara 2

 

 

 

2.10 pm – 2.20 pm

B3.01 # A968

An Overview of Dual Band Antennafor WLAN Application

Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Tan Yee Mun, Chan Yee Kit and Norbahiah Misran

2.20 pm – 2.30 pm

B3.02 # A825

Capacity and Performance Analysis of MIMO systems with Receive Antenna Selection

A. S. Hiwale1,A. A. Ghatol, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

2.30 pm – 2.40 pm

B3.03 # A924

Using an Enhanced Antenna Positioning System for Performance Analysis of MANET

J. A. Guma, N. M. Saad

2.40 pm – 2.50 pm

B3.04 # A863

Rf Regulatory System

Puneet Kumar & Ankit Dua

2.50 pm – 3.00 pm

B3.05 #A969

High Gain Microstrip Patch Antenna Using Multiple Slot

Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Norbahiah Misran, Md. Shahidul Islam, Mohd Fairuz Affendy bin Abdul Rahim and  Mohammed Nazmus Shakib

3.00 pm – 3.10 pm

B3.06 # A821

Nonlinear Autoregressive Modeling to Diagnose the Progression of Dengue Infection Based On Hemoglobin

H. Abdul Rahim, F. Ibrahim and M. N. Taib

3.10 pm – 3.20 pm

B3.07 # A851

Digitally Compensated 4-20 mA Pressure Transmitter

Sidney F. Da Luz , Rodrigo Reina Muńoz, Jorge Ramirez , Edgar Charry, Jaime Lasso V. and Edgar Charry R.

3.20 pm – 3.30 pm

B3.08 # A978

Early Tests of Low Cost and Simple Optical Tomography Based on a Non-Invasive Detection

Margi Sasono and Hariyadi Soetedjo

3.30 pm – 3.40 pm

B3.09 # A935

Wavelet Based Real Time Ventricular Arrhythmia Detection and Classification System

Komal Moazzam Dar, Yasir Mubeen Dar and Fahad Moazzam Dar

3.40 pm – 3.50 pm

B3.10 # A818

Ultrasonic Process Tomography Imaging Sensor: An Analysis on Transceivers Sensing Method

M.H. Fazalul Rahiman1, Z. Zakaria1, R. Abdul Rahim

3.50 pm – 4.00 pm

B3.11 # A808

Realizing a Digital FIR Filter using Xilinx FPGA Technology

Abdul Hadi Abdul Razak and Mohd Faizul Idros

4.00 pm - 4.20 pm

Q&A session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel session B4- DAY 1 – 8th March 2008

Time: 4.20 pm – 5.30 pm

Venue: Room Tiara 2

 

 

 

4.40 pm – 4.50 pm

B4.01 # A819

Characterization of Pharmaceutical Film using Microwave                  Non-Destructive Testing Technique

Nor Khaizan Anuar, Mohd Nasir Taib, Wong Tin Wui, and Deepak K. Ghodgaonkar

4.50 pm- 5.00 pm

B4.02 # A998

A Study on Near Infrared Characteristics in Optical Tomography Application

Mazidah Tajjudin and Wong Jenn Woei

5.10 pm – 5.20 pm

B4.03 # A981

Integrated Gas Sensor Based On Infrared Absorption For Monitoring Indoor Air Quality

Marianah Masrie,  Anuar Ahmad, Ruslan Rolon and Ramli

5.20 pm – 5.30 pm

B4.04 # A986

Contingency Monitoring and Voltage Collapse Estimation for Iraqi National Super Grid System

Lokman H. Hassan, Haider A. F. Mohamed, M. Moghavvemi, and S. S. Yang

5.30 pm – 5.40 pm

B4.05 # A999

Online Solid Flow Monitoring Using PIC16F873 Microcontroller

Mazidah Tajjudin, Nazmy Mahadzir, and Mohd. Hezri Fazalul Rahiman

5.40 pm – 5.50 pm

B4.06 # A997

Muhammad@Yusoff Ibrahim

5.50 pm – 6.00 pm

Q&A session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel session C3 - DAY 1 – 8th March 2008

Time: 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Venue: Room Tiara 3

 

 

 

2.10 pm – 2.20 pm

C3.01 # A987

Small Signal Voltage Stability Analysis for Iraqi National Super Grid System

Haider A. F. Mohamed, Lokman H. Hassan, M. Moghavvemi, Norazlan Hashim, and S. S. Yang

2.20 pm – 2.30 pm

C3.02 # A956

Sound Generated During the Compaction of Alumina Reinforced Aluminum Powders

Al Emran Ismail

2.30 pm – 2.40 pm

C3.03 # A813

Performance Assessment of Hybrid Compression Schemes for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data

R R. Sedamkar, Bijith  Marakarkandy and O. P. Jain

2.40 pm – 2.50 pm

C3.04 # A889

Microstepping Drives Approaches to Improve Machine Carriage/Conveyor Movement

A.Irawan, M. F. Abas, H.Hazha and N.H.Nordin

2.50 pm – 3.00 pm

C3.05 #  A922

Development of Low Cost RFID Door Access System

Rajparthiban Kumar, Aravind CV and Jeyaraj Savarinayagam

3.00 pm – 3.10 pm

C3.06 # A918

Modelling and Control of a Quadrotor Unmanned Air Vehicle

Atheer L. Salih, Haider A. F. Mohamed, M. Moghavvemi, and S. S. Yang

3.10 pm – 3.20 pm

C3.07 # A919

Backstepping Controller Design for a Quadrotor Unmanned Air Vehicle

Haider A. F. Mohamed, Atheer L. Salih, and M. Moghavvemi

3.20 pm – 3.30 pm

C3.08 # A989

Model Based Sensor Fault Tolerant Control For Uncertain Temperature Control Systems

S.S. Yang, Ernie Che Mid, Haider A.F. Mohamed, M. Moghavvemi

3.30 pm – 3.40 pm

C3.09 # A840

Trajectory-Adaptive Zero-Phase Error-Tracking Control With Advanced Learning Scheme

Ramli Adnan, Mohd Marzuki Mustafa and Abd Manan Samad

3.40 pm – 4.00 pm

Q&A session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel session C4- DAY 1 – 8th March 2008

Time: 4.20 pm – 5.30 pm

Venue: Room Tiara 3

 

 

 

4.40 pm – 4.50 pm

C4.01 #  A961

Chip Design for Jawi Features Extraction and Recognition Using Discrete Wavelet Transform and K-Mismatch Algorithm

Zaidi Razak, Nurulhuda Abd Ghani, Emran Mohd Tamil, Mohd Yamani Idna Idris, Noorzaily Mohamed Noor and Mohd. Yakub @ Zulkifli Bin Mohd Yusoff

4.50 pm- 5.00 pm

C4.02 # A967

Implementation and Optimization of Digital Baseband Signal Processing Functions on DSP Processor

Roslina Mohamad, Nuzli Mohamad Anas, Wan Nor Syafizan, Rosmalini and Kaharudin Dimyati

5.10 pm – 5.20 pm

C4.03 # A972

Study of Harmonic Distortion in Loudspeaker Fault Detection

Paulraj M P,   Sazali Yaacob,   R. Badlishah Ahmad,   M. Hariharan, Mohamad Radzi Saad and   Mohd Hafiz Fazalul Rahiman

5.20 pm – 5.30 pm

C4.04 # A899

Evaluating and Adapting Non-Native Speech in Isolated Speech Recognizer

Noraini Seman, Siti Salwa Salleh And Naimah Mohd Hussin

5.30 pm – 5.40 pm

C4.05 # A988

Voice Operated Module for Car Accessories Interfacing Via Speech Recognition

Haider A. F. Mohamed, S. S. Yang, M. Moghavvemi, and Ernie Che Mid

5.40 pm – 5.50 pm

C4.05 # A700

Classification Of Electricity Demands Based On Fuzzy Clustering

Z  Zakaria, M H Sohod, N Md Tahir

5.50 pm – 6.00 pm

Q&A session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel session A5 - DAY 2 – 9th March 2008

Time: 8.30 am – 10.30 am

Venue: Room Tiara 1

 

 

 

8.30 am – 8.40 am

A5.01 # A900

AIRSAR PACRIM’ Program: Its Application For Environmental and Land Cover Mapping

Abd. Manan Samad , Sharifah Norashikin Bohari, Ismail Maarof and Khairil Afendy Hashim .

8.40 am – 8.50 am

A5.02 # A867

Investigation of Ambiguity Resolution for Single and Dual Frequency Relative Positioning

Norsuzila Ya’acob, Mardina Abdullah and Mahamod Ismail

8.50 am – 9.00 am

A5.03 # A806

Influence of Statistical Information Criteria to One-Step-Ahead Prediction Error

Mohd Hezri Fazalul Rahiman, Mohd Nasir Taib and Yusof Md Salleh

9.00 am – 9.10 am

A5.04 # A807

Evaluation of Optimized NNARX Structure in Modeling of Steam Distillation Essential Oil Extraction System

Mohd Hezri Fazalul Rahiman, Mohd Nasir Taib and Yusof Md Salleh

9.10 am – 9.20 am

A5.05 # A995

Hybrid Color Image Segmentation Algorithm

Azilah Saparon and Sasni Ismail

9.20 am – 9.30 am

A5.06 # A844

Implementation Of Repetitive Control Algorithm In Reducing Vibration Using MATLAB/Simulink

Nor Salwa Damanhuri  and Jari Hatonen

9.30 am – 9.40 am

A5.07 # A884

Performance Comparison of LQR and PID Controller for a Ball-beam System

A.N.K. Nasir, M.A. Ahmad and N. Hambali

9.40 am – 9.50 am

A5.08 # A869

Attitude Control of Small Satellites with Reaction Wheels

Zuliana Ismail, Rizal Zahari, and Renuganth Varatharajoo

9.50 am – 10.00 am

A5.09 # A872

Producing Bipolar SPWM Signal Using Low Cost Microcontroller

M. F. Abas, A.Irawan,  and N.M.Saad

10.00 am – 10.10 am

A5.10 # A839

Real-Time Digital Tracking Control of Hydraulic Cylinder

Ruhizan Liza Ahmad Shauri, Ramli Adnan and Mohd Marzuki Mustafa

10.10 am – 10.20 am

A5.11 #A996

An Observer Design Of Nonlinear Quarter Car Model For Active Suspension System Using Sliding Mode Control (SMC)

Adizul Ahmad, Siti Alawiyah Ismail, Norlela Ishak, Abdul Hadi Abdul Razak and Yahaya Md Sam

10.30 am – 10.40 am

A5.12 # A809

WiMAX – Solution for BWA and Confirms to IEEE 802.16 Standard

Muhamad Radzi Abdul Rahman and Kamaruddin Mamat

10.40 am – 10.50 am

A5.13 #A984

Symptoms and signs in dengue patients utilizing the self organizing map

Tarig Faisal, Fatimah Ibrahim, Mohd Nasir Taib

10.50 am – 11.00 am

Q&A session

 


 

Parallel session B5 - DAY 2 – 9th March 2008

Time: 8.30 am – 10.30 am

Venue: Room Tiara 2

 

 

 

8.30 am – 8.40 am

B5.01 # A910

Keystroke Pressure-Based Typing Biometrics Authentication System Using ANN and SVM-Based Classifiers

Hasimah Ali, Momoh J. E. Salami,   Wahyudi and Mohamad Arinal

8.40 am – 8.50 am

B5.02 # A803

Charaterization of Wireless Communication Channel in the HF Frequency Band

Zaiton Sharif, Ahmad Zuri Sha’ameri and Fadzliana Saad

8.50 am – 9.00 am

B5.03 # A982

Analysis of the Execution Time for Point-to-Point Communication Operations in a Cluster-based Parallel System

Mohamed Faidz Mohamed Said, Mohd Nasir Taib and Saadiah Yahya

9.00 am – 9.10 am

B5.04 # A983

MPI Overlap Performance Results in a Beowulf Cluster

Mohamed Faidz Mohamed Said, Mohd Nasir Taib and Saadiah Yahya

9.10 am – 9.20 am

B5.05 # A845

Estimation of Mobile Robot Orientation Using Overhead Vision Systems

Paulraj M P,  Fadzilah Hashim, R. Badlishah Ahmad and M. Hariharan

9.20 am – 9.30 am

B5.06 # A923

Development of a Rescue Robot

Moey LK, Aravind CV, Rajparthiban R andLoh Kin Yan

9.30 am – 9.40 am

B5.07 # A979

Dynamic Modelling of a Two-link Flexible Manipulator

M. A. Ahmad1, Z. Mohamed2 and A. N. K. Nasir

9.40 am – 9.50 am

B5.08 # A992

An Automatic Rice Dispenser System Using Microcontroller

A. Zabidi, W. Mansor, A. Mohamed

9.50 am – 10.00 am

B5.09 # A841

Feature Extraction Based On Energy Features from Frequency Response of the Vocal Tract Model Using Bandwidth Approach

Paulraj M.P., S. Yaacob, S. A. Mohd Yusof, Ahmad Nazri and M. Thagirarani

10.00 am – 10.10 am

B5.10 # A994

Freeman Chain Code Generation For Shape Boundary Representation

Farah Yasmin Abdul Rahman, Aini Hussain and Nooritawati Md Tahir

10.10 am – 10.20 am

B5.11 #A 908

PSA Approach for Image Search in Fabric Images

Khor Siak Wang and Fatimah Ahmad

10.30 am – 10.40 am

B5.12 # A903

An Optimal Boundary Decomposition for Shape Based Image Retrieval

N. D. Salih, Rosli Besar and F. S. Abas

10.40 am – 10.50 am

B5.13 # A811

Detection of Fractured Bones in X-ray Images Using Image Segmentation

Y. Zakariah and A.J. Nor’aini

10.50 am – 11.00 am

Q&A session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parallel session C5 - DAY 2 – 9th March 2008

Time: 8.30 am – 10.30 am

Venue: Room Tiara 3

 

 

 

8.30 am – 8.40 am

C5.01 # A951

Comparison of Brain Wave Signals between Electrical Engineering Students and Sport Science Students of Universiti Teknologi MARA Using EEG

Zunairah Haji Murat, Mohd Nasir Taib, Zodie Mohamed Hanafiah, Ros Shilawani S. Abdul Kadir and Husna Abdul Rahman

8.40 am – 8.50 am

C5.02 # A868

Universal Infrared Receiver For PC’s Media Player

Z.Abdul Halim and Y.H.Ying

8.50 am – 9.00 am

C5.03 # A929

Performance Study of Biomedical Signal Transmission with Wireless Discontinuous Transmission Mode

  Md. Shahidul Islam, Rosli Bin Besar and Mohammad Tariqul Islam

9.00 am – 9.10 am

C5.04 # A880

Application of Taguchi Method in the Optimization of RF-Low Noise Amplifier Design Parameters

S.F. Wan Muhamad Hatta, N.Soin

9.10 am – 9.20 am

C5.05 # A933

Design and Modeling for Revolute Control of USBM Simplified Model

Mohd Syakirin Ramli, Reza Ezuan Samin, Mohd Razali Daud and Mohd Ashraf Ahmad

9.20 am – 9.30 am

C5.06 # A871

The Development of an Inexpensive Portable Potentiostat

Z. Abdul Halim, O.Sidek and M.Ravichandran

9.30 am – 9.40 am

C5.07 # A812

Implementation of Fuzzy Logic Controller for Digital Pendulum

Afaf Rozan Mohd Radzo and Kamarul Azlan Bin Azman

9.40 am – 9.50 am

C5.08 # A893

A New Approach in Solving Class Scheduling Problems Using Particle Swarm Optimization

Mohd Azri and Mohd Nasir Taib

9.50 am – 10.00 am

C5.09 # A833

Adaptive Predictive Fuzzy Logic Attitude Control

R. Nagarajan, Paulraj M P , Sazali Yaacob,  Zaridah Mat Zain, Warren Soh Kay Hoh   and Ahmad Sabirin Arshad

10.00 am – 10.10 am

C5.10 # A837

A Novel Motion Sensing Algorithm for Motion-Based Mobile Phone Interface

Kok Chen LIM, Yoong Choon CHANG and Tse Kian NEO

10.10 am – 10.20 am

C5.11 # A894

PSO with Guided Local Search in Determining the Arrangement of Event for Class Scheduling Problems

Mohd Azri and Mohd Nasir Taib 

10.30 am – 10.40 am

C5.12 # A991

Initial Investigation of Brainwave Synchronization after Horizontal Rotation Intervention Using EEG

Zunairah Haji Murat, Mohd Nasir Taib, Zodie Hanafiah, Ros Shilawani S. Abdul Kadir and Husna Abdul Rahman

10.40 am – 11.00 am

Q&A session

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abstracts


 

CSPA803

 

Charaterization of Wireless Communication Channel in the HF Frequency Band

                                                   

Zaiton Sharif, Ahmad Zuri Sha’ameri and Fadzliana Saad

Digital Signal Processing Lab, Fakulti Kejuruteraan Elektrik,

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, MALAYSIA.

 

The estimation of channel impulse response (CIR) and the channel frequency response (CFR) are performed using a cross correlation method.  Three different types of input signals are used for this purpose.  There are Phase Shift Keying (PSK), Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) and Linear FM signal (LFM).  Both PSK and QPSK are modulated based on pseudo random sequence.  A specific parameter of sampling frequency, data bit rate and sequence length are chosen for this purpose.  All of signals are subjected to various gain of random noise (White Gaussian noise) generated.  Then, the CIR and the CFR are respectively estimated based on the correlation functions.  These signals are chosen due to their auto correlation characteristic that approaches an impulse function.  Since the input-output relationship in time is a convolution between the auto correlation of input and CIR, the cross correlation between output and input signal is the estimate of the CIR.  The FFT of the CIR gives the CFR.  The estimation of CIR and CFR of these signals, with a given delay and subjected to AWGN will be compared with their respective desired values using a statistical method called mean square error (MSE).  The relationship between SNR and MSE of these signals gives an indication on the robustness of these signals with respect to noise.

 

 

CSPA805

 

Shadow Removing using Contourlet-based Image Fusion

 

Shirin Mahmoudi

Computer Group, Engineering Department,

Azad University – Islamshahr branch, Islamshahr, IRAN.

 

The fusion of high-spectral but low-spatial resolution multispectral and low-spectral but high spatial resolution panchromatic satellite images is a very useful technique in various applications of remote sensing, such as change detection. Recently, some studies showed that wavelet-based image fusion method provides high quality of the spectral content of the fused image. However, most of wavelet-based methods have a spatial resolution of the fused result less than the Brovey, IHS, and PCA fusion methods. However, wavelet transform could not efficiently represent the singularity of linear/curve of the images. In this paper, we introduce a new method based on the contourlet transform which represents edges better than wavelets and remove the shadows of images. Since edges play a fundamental role in image understanding, one good way to enhance spatial resolution is to enhance the edges. So, we could find an automatic threshold for discarding the weak edges of panchromatic satellite images using information measure and then strong edges were fused in multi-spectral images. We test the proposed approach on IRS satellite images and compared our results with wavelet transform and IHS ones.

 

 

CSPA806

 

Influence of Statistical Information Criteria to One-Step-Ahead Prediction Error

 

Mohd Hezri Fazalul Rahiman, Mohd Nasir Taib and Yusof Md Salleh

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA.

 

This paper investigates the influence of popular statistical information criteria to one-step-ahead prediction (1-SAP) error of an ARX black-box model. The criteria investigated are the Akaike Information Criteria (AIC), Akaike Final Prediction Error (FPE) and Rissanen’s Minimum Description Length (MDL). The investigation will be based on Pseudo-Random Binary Sequences (PRBS) data collected from an electrically heated steam distillation essential oil extraction system. The data is the steam temperature measured within the distillation column beneath the material bed. By using MATLAB System Identification Toolbox, an ARX model will be estimated and validated. Prior to model validation, all the information criteria will be examined and the criteria that suggested the most flexible model shall be selected for future works. The linear regression will be minimized by using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. Evaluation of model performance will be based on both graphical and statistical approaches such as R2, adjusted-R2, residual distribution, mean and variance. The results have shown that the selected model based on MDL criterion is more parsimonious and flexible as compared to the others.

 

 

CSPA808

 

Realizing a Digital FIR Filter using Xilinx FPGA Technology

 

Abdul Hadi Abdul Razak and Mohd Faizul Idros

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

In this day and age compression of data in digital signal processing is a necessity. Compression formats such as MPEG, JPEG, MP3 and others are widely used in mass media and computer technology.  Usually compressions of data are being developed using computer software, and RISC processor in a decoder. In every format of compression data, Digital Finite Impulse response filter is use as one of the main process in data compression including audio, image and video compression. This paper describes the design of Transposed Form FIR filter implemented in the Spartan-II and Virtex-E family of FPGAs. The design is an 8-tap filter based on 16-bit input samples and 14-bit signed coefficients. The basic building blocks of the filter are KCMs, Adders, Registers, and a delay-locked loop. All the 14-bit coefficient factors are stored with an 18-bit word size in the ROM. The program is written in VHDL source code based on application Xilinx notes [1] that describe the design of an FIR filter. The software tools have been used are Xilinx ISE Webpack 8.1, ModelSim 6.1e and Matlab 7.0.

 

 

 

CSPA809

 

 

WiMAX – Solution for BWA and Confirms to IEEE 802.16 Standard

 

Muhamad Radzi Abdul Rahman and Kamaruddin Mamat

Faculty of Information Technology and Quantitative Sciences,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA.

 

WiMAX is a wireless digital communications system, also known as IEEE 802.16 that is intended for wireless "metropolitan area networks". WiMAX can provide broadband wireless access (BWA) up to 30 miles (50 km) for fixed stations, and 3 - 10 miles (5 - 15 km) for mobile stations. In contrast, the WiFi/802.11 wireless local area network standard is limited in most cases to only 100 - 300 feet (30 - 100m). With WiMAX, data rates are easily supported, but the issue of interference is lessened. WiMAX operates on both licensed and non-licensed frequencies, providing a regulated environment and viable economic model for wireless carriers. WiMAX can be used for wireless networking in much the same way as the more common Wi-Fi protocol. WiMAX is a second-generation protocol that allows for more efficient bandwidth use, interference avoidance, and is intended to allow higher data rates over longer distances. This paper investigates the possibilities of using WiMAX as a solution for BWA and confirms to IEEE 802.16 Standard. The IEEE 802.16 standard defines the technical features of the communications protocol.  The WiMAX Forum  offers a means of testing manufacturer's equipment for compatibility, as well as an industry group dedicated to fostering the development and commercialization of the technology.

 

 

CSPA810

 

JSA based Job Shop Scheduling Optimization

 

P.V Senthiil 1 ,  V. Selladurai 2

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

2 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Coimbatore

Institute of Technology, Coimbatore - 641 014, INDIA.

 

Timely and cost effective production is becoming increasingly important in today’s global competitive market. The key problem faced by today’s manufacturing industries is feasible allocation of various jobs to available resources i.e. processors. This problem can be outwitted by a proper scheduling technique, adopted by industries. A typical job shop scheduling problem has a set of jobs to be processed in a set of processors, with certain constraints and objective functions to be achieved. The most commonly considered objectives are the minimization of make span (Cmax), minimization of tardiness (T) which leads to minimization of late penalty cost, and to maximize machine utilization. Machine shop scheduling can be done using various techniques like standard dispatching rules, heuristic techniques like Simulated annealing, Tabu Search,  Genetic algorithm, etc. In this article a typical job shop scheduling problem is solved using algorithmic simulated annealing (SA) technique, a heuristic search algorithm. SA is a generic neighborhood search algorithm used to locate optimal solution very nearer to a global optimal solution. As a part of this article, a software based program is developed in VB platform and realistic test instances were performed. Experimental results obtained were further tuned by varying input job parameters and optimal results were obtained.

 

 

CSPA811

 

Detection of Fractured Bones in X-ray Images using Image Segmentation

 

Y. Zakariah, A.J. Nor’aini

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA.

 

Fractured bones are common affliction. Each year many fractures are missed during x-ray diagnosis, resulting in ineffective patient management and expensive litigation. The use of computers has helped make computation work significantly faster, more efficient, and with high accuracy. Since bone fracture can occur in many ways, no one single algorithm can detect all the possible fractures accurately. In this paper a method of detecting fractures especially for hair line fracture is presented. Image processing technique involves image segmentation that includes threshold and edge detection using canny edge detector. It also involves filtering using median filters. The basic processing techniques such as intensity transformation and intensity manipulation are also used. Ten samples of x-ray images were used for this purpose. Experiment performed shows that the method is capable of accurately segmenting fracture as well as capable to enhance the resolution of the fractured bone images from its original images.

 

 

CSPA812

 

Implementation of Fuzzy Logic Controller for Digital Pendulum

 

Afaf Rozan Mohd Radzol, Kamarul Azlan bin Azman

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pulau Pinang, MALAYSIA.

 

Digital Pendulum System is an example of pole balancing system and non-linear control theory having a complex dynamics behavior that creates challenging control problem [5]. This paper is intended to discuss the developed Fuzzy Controller to The Digital Pendulum Control System. Swing is induced in the pendulum as the cart is moved back and forth by the DC motor [5]. Generally the objective of implementing the fuzzy controller to the system is to move the cart between positions from point to point without letting the angle of the pendulum swing become too large and comparing between the fuzzy controller method and PID controller method. The effectiveness of the proposed control method is then shown in the experimental results.

 

 

CSPA813

 

Performance Assessment of Hybrid Compression Schemes for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data.

 

R R. Sedamkar1, Bijith Marakarkandy2, O. P. Jain3

1 NMIMS University, Mumbai, INDIA.

2 MPSTME-NMIMS, Mumbai, INDIA.                             

3 L&T Infotec, Mumbai, INDIA.

                               

Multispectral and Hyperspectral images are being increasingly used in areas such as Biomedical Engineering and Forensic sciences apart from traditional and key application areas viz. remote sensing and geosciences. Multispectral and Hyperspectral imagery has four dimensions 2 spatial, 1 spectral and 1 temporal, therefore these data have very high volumes. Data compression schemes have become essential for reducing storage requirements and network traffic for economical distribution of this data. Lossless compression methods are a good option, but they cannot offer a satisfactory compression ratio for hyperspectral and Multispectral images, therefore lossy compression schemes which preserve very useful information have to be considered moreover the time required to compress and extract information from the data is also crucial. In this paper we propose a hybrid scheme to compress the hyperspectral and multispectral data. We use Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for spectral decorrelation and dimensionality reduction and the Principal components (PCs) are coded using variable length codes. We have experimented on Landsat and AVIRIS images .The decompressed images were evaluated objectively using standard performance metrics viz. Maximum Absolute Error (MAE), Mean square error (MSE), Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), and performance of transformation is reported using merit of transform. Distribution of Hyperspectral and Multispectral data over the internet will take considerable time particularly if the medium over which the image is being transmitted is slow. Many a times the user is interested only in certain bands and not the entire data set. In such cases the proposed method will enable transmission of only those compressed Principle components (PC’s) which introduce the least error in the required bands along with the transformation Matrix and Mean vector. The user can re-create almost an exact version of the required bands using the proposed scheme

 

 

CSPA814

 

Biometric Verification using Brain Signatures

 

Hema C.R, Paulraj M.P, Abdul Hamid Adom, Sazali Yaacob, Nagarajan R., Harkirenjit Kaur

School of Mechatronic Engineering,

Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600, Jejawi, Perlis, MALAYSIA

 

In this paper we investigate the use of brain signatures as a possible biometric verification technique. Research on brain signals has shown that each individual has a unique brain wave pattern. Biometry using brain signals is an emerging field with very little work been done in this area. EEG signals generated by mental tasks are acquired to extract the distinctive brain signature of an individual. EEG signals during mental tasks were acquired from five subjects. In this paper we propose a novel algorithm for identification using power spectrum and Elman neural networks. The performance of the neural network is appreciable with an average accuracy of 79 to 97.4%.

 

 

CSPA815

 

Stereo Vision System for Assistive Smart Wheelchair

 

Hema C.R, Paulraj M.P, Abdul Hamid Adom, Sazali Yaacob, Nagarajan R., Mohamad Sulaiman Ibrahim

School of Mechatronic Engineering,

Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600, Jejawi, Perlis, MALAYSIA

 

Maneuvering and controlling an electrically powered wheelchair poses a complex and hardly manageable task for severely handicapped and elderly people with heavily reduced physical and mental abilities. With an increase in the number of senior citizens there is an increase in the demand for user friendly wheelchairs. This paper proposes a vision based obstacle location system for wheelchair using stereo vision. Neural network are used to estimate the distance of the obstacles. Experimental results validate the proposed method.

 

 

CSPA816

 

Domestic Solid Waste Sorting using Vision Sensor

 

Hema C. R, Paulraj M. P, Sazali Yaacob, Abdul Hamid Adom, Nagarajan R., D. Maheswaran, R. Jaii Ganes

School of Mechatronic Engineering,

University Malaysia Perlis, 02600, Jejawi, Perlis, MALAYSIA.

 

Recognizing the problem of domestic waste in the community is one the most important aspects of community life, especially as domestic waste management impacts significantly on the environment. For effective waste management, domestic waste must be initially separated into plastic, glass, metal, and paper. Glass and metal objects can easily and economically be separated from the waste stream by air classification or magnets, but the weight and other properties of plastic and paper articles make them more difficult to distinguish for purposes of separation. In this paper we propose a novel algorithm using vision to sort paper and plastic waste. A neural network classifier is designed to classify the paper and plastic waste. Classification accuracy of 96.4 % were obtainable.

 

 

CSPA817

 

Particle Swarm Neural Network Based Classification of EEG Mental Tasks

 

Hema C.R., Paulraj M.P, Sazali Yaacob, Abdul Hamid Adom, Nagarajan R.

School of Mechatronic Engineering,

Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600, Jejawi, Perlis, MALAYSIA

 

Brain machine interface (BMI) provides a digital channel for communication in the absence of the biological channels. BMI are used to rehabilitate patients with neurodegenerative diseases, a condition in which all motor movements are impaired including speech leaving the patients totally locked-in. BMI are designed using the electrical activity of the brain detected by scalp EEG electrodes. Classification of EEG signals extracted during mental tasks is a technique for designing a BMI. In this paper five different mental tasks from two subjects were studied, combinations of two tasks are studied for each subject. A PSO ELMAN neural network is used for classification of the EEG signals. Band power features of the EEG signals are used for the classification. Classification accuracies varied from 79.5% to 91% for the 10 different task combinations for each of the subjects. The results obtained validate the performance of the PSONN algorithm for mental task classification.

 

 

CSPA818

 

Ultrasonic Process Tomography Imaging Sensor: An Analysis on Transceivers Sensing Method

 

M.H. Fazalul Rahiman1, Z. Zakaria1, R. Abdul Rahim2

1 Tomography Imaging Research Group, School of Mechatronic Engineering,

Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600 Jejawi, Arau, Perlis, MALAYSIA.

2 Process Tomography Research Group (PROTOM)

Control and Instrumentation Engineering Department, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, MALAYSIA.

 

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. It has been proven that the operation efficiency of a process is closely related to accurate measurement and control of hydrodynamic parameters such as flow regime and flow rate. In recent years, the applications of tomography techniques as a robust non-invasive tool for direct analysis of the characteristics of multiphase flows have increased. In this study, ultrasonic tomography imaging sensor has been utilised to visualize the distribution of liquid/gas in a vertical column. The sensing element consists of 32 units of ultrasonic transceivers to cover the column cross-section. The motivation of the paper is to analyse the performance of the transceiver methods in visualizing bubble hold-ups in vertical column. Some analyses have been carried out using several phantoms and the system was found excellent in visualizing the internal characteristics and provides the concentration profile for the corresponding phantoms.

 

 

CSPA820

 

Model Order Selection Criterion for dengue infections using Autoregressive Model

 

H. Abdul Rahim1, F. Ibrahim2 and M. N. Taib3

1Department of Control and Instrumentation, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, MALAYSIA.

2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,

University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA.

3Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

This paper describes the development of linear autoregressive (AR) models to diagnose the progression of dengue infection based on hemoglobin. Three different AR model order selection criteria namely Final Prediction Error (FPE), Akaike’s Information Criteria (AIC) and Lipschitz number have been evaluated and analyzed. The results showed that Lipschitz number has better accuracy compared to FPE and AIC. Finally based on Lipschitz number, appropriate model orders have been selected for diagnose the progression of dengue infection based on hemoglobin status.  Further work is to apply this appropriate model orders to nonlinear Autoregressive (NAR) model.

 

 

CSPA821

 

Nonlinear Autoregressive Modeling to Diagnose the Progression of Dengue Infection Based on Hemoglobin

 

H. Abdul Rahim1, F. Ibrahim2 and M. N. Taib3

1 Department of Control and Instrumentation, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, MALAYSIA.

2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,

University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA.

3Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

This paper proposed a nonlinear AR (NAR) based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is applied to the modeling of a predicting the hemoglobin status for dengue infection.  The type of order selection criteria involves the final prediction error (FPE), Akaike’s Information Criteria (AIC), and Lipschitz number.  This model is divided two approaches which are unregelurized approach and regularized approach. The results show that using NAR model with regularized approach yield better accuracy by 80.60% to predict the hemoglobin status for dengue infection compared with AR model.

 

 

CSPA822

 

Fourier Descriptor for Human Shape Recognition

 

Nooritawati Md Tahir, Aini Hussain, Salina Abdul Samad and Hafizah Husain

Dept of Electrical, Electronics and System, Faculty of Engineering,

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

The aim of this study is to investigate Fourier Descriptor (FD) as feature vectors for shape representation and recognition since FD is the best known boundary based shape descriptor and has proven to outperform most other boundary based methods in terms of accuracy. Furthermore, FD is also invariant to geometric transformations and has good noise tolerance. The main concern regarding FD is the number of terms that need to be maintained from the original Fourier transform for effective representation and description. A system that computed FDs of human and non human from their silhouettes; normalized the descriptors and further applied as feature vectors for recognition is developed. Initial results of experiment showed that using adequate number of both low and high frequency components could represent the shape based on high recognition rate achieved. The process of shape recognition using FDs looks promising.

 

 

CSPA823

 

Automated Interior Parked Vehicle Heat Discharger using Fuzzy Logic

 

Shaiful Izzuddin bin Mohamad, Rosni Abu Kassim and Nooritawati Md Tahir

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi Mara, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

In this study, an automated heat discharger system for a parked vehicle using fuzzy logic is developed. The Automatic Heat Discharger acted as a device in controlling and maintaining the temperature condition in a parked vehicle using two sensors and two actuators to simulate the real world scenario. The sensors applied are the Negative Coefficient Temperature (NTC) and light dependent sensor (LDR) whilst the actuators are an exhaust fan and curtain as shade for protection of the vehicle interior against hot weather and sun exposure. Additionally, the development of fuzzy logic control algorithm is performed using the fuzzyTECH 3.5 environment. Initial results proved that the developed system is capable to maintain the temperature of a suitably sized of interior parked vehicle and perfectly control the temperature by discharging the heat away from the vehicle interior.

 

 

CSPA825

 

Capacity and Performance Analysis of MIMO systems with Receive Antenna Selection

A. S. Hiwale1 and A. A. Ghatol2

1 Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering,

SSGM College of Engineering, Shegaon – 444 203, MS, INDIA

2 Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University,

Lonere, Mangaon, Raigad, Maharashtra, INDIA

 

The use of multiple-antennas and number of transceiver RF chains increase the hardware complexity of MIMO systems. Antenna selection is the promising technique to reduce the complexity of MIMO systems that employ less number of RF chains compared to number of available antennas. Antenna selection at the receiver or transmitter or at both transmitter/receiver greatly reduces complexity of MIMO systems while retaining the benefits of full complex MIMO systems. Various selection algorithms are proposed by the researches based on maximizing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or maximizing capacity. This paper discusses some practical selection rules and gives the exact analysis of capacity and error performance of MIMO systems when using a subset of available antennas at the receiver. The numerical results obtained using MATLAB for channel capacity and performance shows that with two transmit antennas and selecting 2 out of 4 receive antennas yields capacity per channel use of 6 b/sec/Hz

compared to 7 b/sec/Hz of a full complex system. Similarly, a loss in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of about 3 dB is exhibited at error probability of 10-5 in MIMO with antenna selection (2 out of 4 receive antennas) compared to MIMO system using all available antennas.

 

 

CSPA826

 

ASTHRA - “An Automated Robotic Vehicle for the Disabled patients using Embedded Systems”

 

Natarajan R., Dinesh Singh J.

Department of Information Technology, Sri Sai Ram Engineering College,

Chennai – 600 044, Tamil Nadu, INDIA.

 

ASTHRA is an automated, dynamic memory mapped robotic vehicle, which enables the disabled to carry on their locomotion with ease and confidence. Also Asthra acts as an automated patient monitoring unit which enables to transfer vital information during emergency as well as normal conditions. The vehicle mainly consists of five basic components including a embedded web servers, dc motors with driver circuit, an ultrasonic transmitter and receiver to detect obstacles, a radio frequency remote and programmable and control memory unit. The dc motors are placed at the hub of the vehicle’s tire and their chief aim is to drive or render sufficient power to pull the weight of the patient to move about. The most important feature of Asthra is the embedded web servers. The use of the embedded web servers is to transfer information’s regarding the patient’s temperature, pulse, ECG and other important necessary features that need to be transmitted during times of emergency. We maintain a local intranet by which the doctor could just login onto a website maintained at the intranet and get the required details about each and every patient. Also alerting mechanisms are added which enable to alert doctors regarding the condition of patients under chronic health conditions. In our case, a RF remote is provided as an interface between the user and the vehicle. The dc motors are provided with a driving circuit which is connected to a PIC microcontroller board. The microcontroller board enables dynamic memory mapping by utilizing the “train and execute” mode of operation. Utilizing the ultrasonic obstacle detection circuit, the microcontroller unit programs itself as per the dimensions of a particular place. Thus Asthra combines upon various features which render effective locomotion to the disabled as well as act as an effective patient monitoring system.

 

 

CSPA827

 

An Efficient Rate Scalable Technique for Image Coding and Transmission

 

N.B. Chopade1 and A. A. Ghatol2

1Department of Electronics and Telecomm., Engineering, SSGM College of Engineering, Shegaon 444203, INDIA.

2Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere 402103 Dist: Raigad, INDIA.

 

Recently analog images such as Metrological, Astronomical, Seismic, X-rays, MRI, ECG, EMG, and EEG data are replaced by digital images for storage & retention. It has been estimated that every year 80 billion new digital images are produced. Multimedia data (still images, video & audio) accessed by Internet and mobile users also forms a considerable portion of the database. Multimedia data in uncompressed form requires considerable storage space, transmission bandwidth & computational time. Compression & coding of digital images allows storing an image data in secured and confidential manner. It also reduces the storage & transmission cost. The necessity of image compression is continuously growing in the recent past. The Image compression methods essentially include transform of image, quantization and encoding. One of the promising & prominent approaches in this domain is discrete wavelet based image compression, which uses the concept of multirate DSP and subband coding. The popular JPEG standard uses DCT for transforming image, which suffers from blocking artifacts & mosquito noise. The JPEG2000 standard uses Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) for image transformation. This paper describes wavelet based coding method Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) to encode & compress the digital image data. It uses recursive set partitioning procedure to sort subsets of wavelet coefficient by maximum magnitude with respect to threshold. Because of low complexity & simplicity, this method has very fast encoding and decoding capability which makes it very efficient in multimedia transmission. The numerical results obtained using MATLAB shows that the output image has high value of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), smaller mean square error (MSE) with good compression ratio (CR) for low bit rate. Index Terms - discrete wavelet transform (DWT), set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT), peak signal-to–noise-ratio (PSNR), mean square error (MSE), compression ratio (CR).

 

 

CSPA831

 

Design of Low-Power Field Programmable Analog Array based on OTA in 0.35 µM CMOS Technology

 

Rajendra Kanphade, Dr. M. Shojaei-Baghini, Manish Patil, Priti Gawande, Nitin Ingole, Manisha Chhangani, Amit Khade, Jagvir Verma, Sanjeev Ranjan, D. G. Wakde

VLSI & Embedded System Design Center,

SSGM College of Engineering (SSGMCE), Shegaon, INDIA.

 

Analog processing may be utilized for applications requiring low precision, smaller area and lower power than their digital counterparts, in large part due to their not requiring anti aliasing filters and signal converters. Fast analog integration in deep sub-micron CMOS technologies has become a very important issue. The need for fast redesigns for different technologies of existing analog building blocks becomes crucial in the IC industry. FPAA is an emerging technology with its own challenges due to the inherent complexity of programmable and adjustable modular analog design. In this work a design of an OTA-based FPAA in 0.35 µm mixed signal CMOS process using Cadence Custom IC Design technology for low-power applications is presented. This FPAA aimed for low-power applications and will implement adjustable transconductors, programmable continuous time filtering and analog multiplication. The most important specifications we have considered include tuning range, programming versatility, consumed area and power dissipation. We have also presented a new efficient interconnection scheme among CABs. Many current mode building blocks can be used for realizations of linear and non-linear analog systems. Because of the structural simplicity and convenient controllability of an OTA, it can be found to be a better candidate. One of the features of OTAs is that their transconductance can be adjusted and programmed, which is an important factor in the design of FPAAs.

 

 

CSPA832

 

Neural Network Based Detection of Voice Disorders using Energy Spectrum and Equal-Loudness Contours

 

Paulraj M P1, Sazali Yaacob 1, S.N. Sivanandam 2, M. Hariharan1

1 School of Mechatronic Engineering,

Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Perlis, MALAYSIA.

2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, INDIA.

 

Impairment of vocal function can have a major impact on the quality of life, severely limiting communication at work and affecting all social aspects of daily life.  In the recent years, voice diseases are increasing dramatically due to unhealthy social habits and voice abuse. Acoustic analysis is a non-invasive technique to detect and diagnose the voice disorders. In this paper, a simple feature extraction method based on band energy spectrum and weighing factor of its center frequency derived from Equal-loudness contours is proposed. A simple Elman recurrent network model is developed for testing the proposed features. The simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm can distinguish the voice as pathological or non-pathological voice and provides the mean classification accuracy of above 90%. The proposed method has the potential for diagnosing the voice disorders.

 

 

CSPA833

 

Adaptive Predictive Fuzzy Logic Attitude Control

 

R. Nagarajan1, Paulraj M P1, Sazali Yaacob1, Zaridah Mat Zain1, Warren Soh Kay Hoh2, Ahmad Sabirin Arshad2,

1 School of Mechatronic,

Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600 Jejawi, Perlis, MALAYSIA.

2 Astronautic Technology (M) Sdn Bhd, No 2 Jalan Jururancang U1/21,

Section U1 Hicom Glenmarie Industrial Park, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

This paper proposed one axis and three axis attitude control of a micro-satellite in space. In order to reduce the effect of unpredictable time delay and variations in other parameters, an adaptive predictive form of a Mamdani fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is introduced. Magnetic torquing is considered for generating control torques on this satellite. This principle is given by the interaction between Earth magnetic field and magnetic field generated by coils on the satellite for actuation. To reduce the effects of this unfavorable behavior, a predictive adaptive form of a Mamdani type fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is introduced. Predictive controller is needed to compensate the effects of dead time which occurs in the micro-satellite control system. The predictor estimates the required control at the next sampling time and applies to the system at the current sampling time. The response of the satellite is compared with a known reference model and an adaptive algorithm to yield the error between both outputs towards zero. The design schemes of modeling adaptive and predictive FLC are described as follow: basic FLC, predictive FLC and adaptive and predictive FLC. The simulation results verified the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed controller and show that three axis control can be achieved with magnetorquers as actuators in low Earth orbit.

 

 

CSPA837

 

A Novel Motion Sensing Algorithm for Motion-Based Mobile Phone Interface

 

Kok Chen LIM, Yoong Choon CHANG and Tse Kian NEO

Multimedia University, MALAYSIA.

 

This paper introduces a novel motion sensing algorithm for motion-based mobile phone interface design. In our motion sensing algorithm, First-Order Image Derivative (FOID) is used as a gradient measure for featured blocks selection. Optimum-search Block Matching Algorithm (OBMA) is then proposed for motion estimation. With OBMA, the average search step in block matching is reduced by up to 30% as compared to Full-search Block Matching Algorithm (FBMA). The computational intensity of our algorithm is further reduced by up to 70% with the introduction of Smart Global Motion Estimation (SGME). Experiment results show that our algorithm is more efficient to be used in camera-enabled mobile devices. In order to test on the effectiveness our algorithm has been programmed and tested on the Nokia N73 phone using Java J2ME programming language.

 

 

CSPA0844

 

Implementation of Repetitive Control Algorithm in Reducing Vibration using MATLAB/Simulink

 

Nor Salwa Damanhuri1, Jari Hatonen2,

1 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UiTM Pulau Pinang, MALAYSIA.

2 School of Automatic and Control Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK.

 

Repetitive control algorithm is a new technique to control systems with periodic disturbances. The purpose of implementing repetitive control algorithm is to reduce the vibration effect on the system by making the algorithm converge to zero tracking error. Vibration is a major problem in the engineering area. There have been major research conducted using various methods in order to minimize the vibration effects to the control system. This paper investigates the application of a repetitive control algorithm technique to control systems with periodic disturbances. In analyzing the repetitive control algorithm, the FIR assumption is a criterion that needs to be satisfied so that the algorithm converges to zero tracking error. The repetitive controller is designed by using the MATLAB/Simulink software. Then, the results obtained from the MATLAB/Simulink are evaluated.

 

 

CSPA847

 

Artificial Intelligent Based Friction Compensation using Multilayer Feedforward Network

 

Wahyudi and Nur Muhammad Zaiyad Muda @ Ismail

Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,

International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), 50728 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA.

 

Friction is one of the major contributing factors for problem associated with accuracy in motion control systems.  However, it is not easy to overcome the problem caused by the friction. It is a nonlinear system so that linear control theory can not handle the friction effectively. Moreover friction also is characterized by uncertainty due to lubrication condition and/or payload change.  Among the successful method to overcome for the effect of friction is model-based friction compensation which relies on the accuracy of the friction model.  In this paper, model-based friction compensation based on multilayer feedforward network (MFN) friction model to compensate the friction is introduced and evaluated experimentally on a rotary experimental motion system. The experimental results show that the use MFN-based friction model is effective to compensate for the effect of friction in the motion control system.

 

 

CSPA848

 

Algorithm Research on Wavelet Support Vector Machine

 

Lin Jipeng1, Liu Junhua2

1 School of Electronics and Control,

Changan University, Xian 710054, CHINA.

2 School of Electrical Engineering,

Xian Jiaotong University, Xian 710049, CHINA.

 

A wavelet kernel for support vector machine (SVM) based on wavelet dual frame theory and conditions of constructing SVM kernel is presented, which not only increases the precision and convergent rate of the model, but also is especially suitable for local signal analysis, signal-noise separation and detection of jumping signals with the characteristics of multi-scale interpolation and sparse variation, thus enhances the generalization ability of the support vector machine (SVM), recognition efficiency and computation burden is alleviated. According to the wavelet kernel function and the regularization theory, a least square wavelet support vector machine (LS-WSVM) is proposed to greatly simplify the solving process of SVM. The LS-WSVM is then applied to the nonlinear system identification to test the validity of the wavelet kernel function, In function SINC regression simulation, the max abs error (MSE) is no more 0.18. In logistic chaos sequence prediction, the MSE is no more than 8×106. Meanwhile, the MSE is not increased while increasing the predicting length. This hints it has better generalization ability.

 

 

CSPA851

 

Digitally Compensated 4-20 mA Pressure Transmitter

 

Sidney F. Da Luz1, Rodrigo Reina Muńoz2, Jorge Ramirez3, Edgar Charry4, Jaime Lasso V4., Edgar Charry R1.

1Electrical Department-Polytechnyque School, Săo Paulo University, Săo Paulo, BRAZIL.

2Engineering and Applied Science Center – Universidade Federal do ABC

Santo André, SP, BRAZIL.

3Electrical Department- Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, CUBA.

4MEMS - Microssistemas Híbridos de Pressăo Indústria e Comercio Ltda., BRAZIL.

 

 

This paper concerns the implementation of a 4-20 mA pressure transmitter using digital calibration and compensation techniques. Digital compensation is presently used as it allows cost reduction in comparison with analogue techniques like those using laser trimming. As digital processor was used a commercial chip that provides all functionality needed to obtain the transmitter, including amplification, A/D and D/A conversion, an EEPROM to store coefficients and a CPU to control the activities flow to adjust the sensor’s output signal. The algorithm provided with the DSP was modified to obtain compensation using current as the main variable, instead of voltage, as originally used in pressure transducer applications by the chip’s supplier. It was possible to produce some transmitters prototypes digitally calibrated and compensated with accuracy under 0.25% FSO (Full Span Output) in a temperature range of 0oC to 80oC using 4-20mA current output.

 

 

CSPA852

 

Designing a Digital Display Panel for Motorized Battery Operated Vehicle (MBOV)

 

N.Sulaiman, M.R.Mohamed, K.Amat

Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering,

Universiti Malaysia Pahang, 25000 Kuantan, Pahang, MALAYSIA.

 

Electric Vehicle (EV) which is using rechargeable battery to operate now becoming an alternative type of transportation. The EV now is in the phase of challenging the conventional vehicle in a factor of speed, running time, energy efficiency and pollution. Motorized Battery Operated Vehicle (MBOV) is an electric vehicle that uses battery to operate. It is designed previously just to make it move forward & backward and without any display panel. Since it is powered by battery, it is vital that the battery performance must be monitored. The battery can be ruined by excessive discharging and charging. MBOV uses 2 batteries with 12 Volts each. In order to monitor and control the performance of MBOV efficiently, the digital display panel needs to be designed. It will display four items; (1) Initial & running value of battery voltage, initial & running value of current, the speed of vehicle and the remaining minutes before the vehicle need to be recharged. All the values will be displayed in LED 7 segments. To display the battery voltage and current, the Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is used to convert the analog signal to digital signal. Then the digital signal will be displayed at LED 7 segments by using Binary-to-Decimal Converter (BCD). The speed is measured by the rate of change in position of vehicle’s wheel and motor at certain time. The dot/bar display driver is used to monitor the changing process from the highest to the lowest level of the time left. Here the initial value of time is 110 minutes base on 24 Volt of voltage. The time will be reduced until 28 minutes. Every 2 Volts of charging, the remaining minutes will be displayed in LED 7 segments. Meanwhile, the voltage will be changed from 24 Volts (Maximum) to 18 Volts. The current are ranging from 0.0 A to 9.99 A. The results of the research show that all the parameters needed are displayed correctly such as initial and running voltage and current, the speed and the remaining time. For future work, it is recommended to use LCD to replace LED 7 segments and optimize the size of the circuit by using Printed Circuit Board (PCB).

 

 

CSPA866

 

A Practical Approach for Human Motion Understanding

 

Altahir A. Altahir, Vijanth S. Asirvadam and Patrick Sebastian

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Universiti Technologi Petronas,

31750, Tronoh, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak D. Ridzuan, MALAYSIA.

 

With the current advancement in video technology, video surveillance has become an integral part of daily life. Usually a human operator watches them to catch events of interest in the scene, but this is a tedious and time consuming process in which requiring constant attention, and leads to inadequate surveillance capability. Therefore, there is an urgent need for automated systems for analysis of surveillance video streams. This paper presents a novel operational computer vision framework for understanding human motion from video streams. The system captures monocular video on a scene containing two humans and performs analyzing and mining operations based on five measurements to identify the motion. The five measurements are extracting pixel coverage of a particular object, time domain, frequency distribution of pixels of interest, crossed distance per frame and characterizing the events for each one of human subject. Experimental results shows by mining the measurements mentioned above a better understanding of human motion can be extracted.

 

 

CSPA867

 

Investigation of Ambiguity Resolution for Single and Dual Frequency Relative Positioning

 

Norsuzila Ya’acob, Mardina Abdullah and Mahamod Ismail

Department of Electrical, Electronics and System Engineering,

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently one of the most popular global satellite positioning systems due to global availability of signal and performance. High positioning accuracy is now achievable using carrier phase based relative positioning technique, in which two or more geodetic quality GPS receivers are deployed. Baseline length – dependent errors due to ionospheric refraction complicates ambiguity resolution and limits the accuracy attainable in GPS baseline determination. In this study, the effects of initial phase ambiguity at GPS and modelling of ionosphere on base components were studied. The solutions that are related to frequency and solutions were done by using single frequency and dual frequency data.  Data from Real Time Kinematic (RTK) and Malaysian Active Station (MASS) of JUPEM (Jabatan Ukur dan Pemetaan Malaysia) were used in this analysis. Several techniques i.e ionospheric free fixed, ionopheric free float, L1 fixed, L1 float, widelane fixed and widelane float have been used for initial phase ambiguity solution. The resultant position estimates from the Trimble Geomatic Office (TGO) software were then compared with the accurately known coordinates.

 

 

CSPA868

 

Universal Infrared Receiver for PC’s Media Player

 

Z. Abdul Halim and Y.H.Ying

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,

University Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, Seri Ampangan,

14300 Nibong Tebal, Seberang Perai Selatan, Penang, MALAYSIA.

 

Infrared data transfer is becoming increasingly more important. Television remote control uses infrared light, so do PC mice, keyboard, printers and other peripherals. This is because the infrared devices offer lower production cost, wide operating range and good communication security. The PC infrared receiver presented in this project was a practical application that represents a continuation of the series of articles on PC interface and Visual Basic. Visual Basic 6 was used to decode the received infrared signal and perform PC’s functions such as window media player. Serial port DB-9 (COM1) was used as the interface between computer and the hardware of this project. By end of this project, total three brands of remote controls were able to use to remote the PC such as Philips, Sony and JVC.

 

 

CSPA869

 

Attitude Control of Small Satellites with Reaction Wheels

 

Zuliana Ismail, Rizal Zahari, Renuganth Varatharajoo

Department of Aerospace Engineering,

University Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400 Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

This paper presents the attitude control for small satellites by using three reaction wheels. To avoid any wheel’s angular momentum reaching the saturation level rapidly, the secondary actuators such as magnetorquers are significantly required. Since reaction wheels are powered by electrical power, it is slightly inappropriate to adopt multiple reaction wheels for the small satellite missions because of the power constraints.  However, the power consumption could be minimized by having the best orientation of the reaction wheels on-board satellite. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the most suitable reaction wheels configuration in an orbiting satellite. Numerical simulation is performed by using the MatlabTM/Simulink for a reference mission. Based on simulation results, the best reaction wheels configuration that produced the minimum torque which leads to a low power consumption was identified.

 

 

CSPA880

 

Application of Taguchi Method in the Optimization of RF-Low Noise Amplifier Design Parameters

 

S.F. Wan Muhamad Hatta, N. Soin,

Department of Electrical Engineering,

University Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA.

 

This paper outlines the Taguchi optimization methodology, which is applied to optimize the Radio Frequency Low Noise Amplifier (RF-LNA) design performance. The LNA design incorporates the forward body biasing scheme with the power constrained simultaneous noise input matching (PCSNIM) and the gain enhancement technique in order to boost design performance. The design parameters evaluated are the gate inductor value, Lg, the additional PSCNIM-capacitor, Cex, which is located between the source terminal and the gate terminal of the common source amplifying transistor, and the feedback capacitor, CF which has been included to realize the gain enhancement technique. An orthogonal array, signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio and Pareto analysis of variance (ANOVA) are employed to analyze the effect of these design parameters. Through statistical analysis of the experimental results, the optimal variable combination for high gain and low noise performance are low Lg value and CF values. It has also been realized that a low value of Cex would give a good power gain performance while a larger value gives a desired low noise figure. Using the Taguchi method for design of experiment (DOE), other significant effects such as the interaction among the design parameters are also investigated. The study shows that the Taguchi method is suitable to solve the designing problem with minimum number of trials.

 

 

CSPA884

 

Performance Comparison of LQR and PID Controller for a Ball-beam System

 

A. N. K. Nasir, M. A. Ahmad and N. Hambali

Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,

Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), 25000 Kuantan, Pahang, MALAYSIA.

 

This paper presents investigations into the performance comparison of LQR and PID controller for a ball-beam system. A ball-beam balancer system with the beam supported in the middle and rotates against its central axis is considered and a linear time invariant dynamic model is derived in this study. Simulation results of the response of the ball-beam system are presented in time domain. Two system responses namely the ball position and angular beam are obtained. The performances of the LQR and PID controller are examined in terms of input tracking capability and time response specifications. A comparative assessment of both control schemes to the system performance is presented and discussed.

 

 

CSPA893

 

A Modified Evolution Equation for Particle Swarm Optimization in Solving Class Scheduling Problem

 

Mohd Azri Abdul Aziz, Mohd Nasir Taib,

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

The solution of a class scheduling problem is generally represented by the arrangement of events and its associated parameters (lecturer, students, etc.) in timeslot and room, while the evolution equation for PSO is in a numerical format. Several advantages in terms of a fast execution of algorithm can be obtained if the format for both is compatible. It will also ease the process of modeling the class scheduling problem using Particle Swarm Optimization technique. In order to make the format for both evolution equation and solution of the problem is compatible, this paper will propose some modification on the PSO’s evolution equation. The proposed modified equation will still maintain two important elements of PSO which are the self-learning (cognitive) and social interaction. The modified evolution equation was then used in the experiment to prove that it can simulate the swarm intelligence behaviour as close as to the original equations. The result shows that the implementation of the modified evolution equation has been successfully demonstrated for the purpose of solving a class scheduling problem.

 

 

CSPA894

 

PSO with Guided Local Search in Determining the Arrangement of Event for Class Scheduling Problems

 

Mohd Azri Abdul Aziz, Mohd Nasir Taib

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

The arrangement of events in class scheduling problem determine the solution of the problem. The movement of at least one event to a new slot will create new different arrangement and therefore changing the solution to the problem. A totally random selection of which event to be moved and where to move will prone to the duplication of event arrangements. This will therefore drag the time in finding the best event arrangement or solution of the problem. This selection method will make the movement even worst if it violates the hard constraint. This paper will propose a PSO with guided Local Search in selecting the event to be moved and also the new slot it can be moved to. This is done to ensure the duplication of solution is avoided and thus will speed up the process in searching for the best solution. The checking for hard constraint violation will be done in the Guided Local Search algorithm, which means the solution passed to the evaluation process is a hard constraint free and non-duplicated solution. In the proposed algorithm, PSO will be responsible in selecting the area where the particle will move while the Guided Local Search will complete the search by finding the exact location of the particle.

 

 

CSPA908

 

PSA Approach for Image Search in Fabric Images

 

Khor Siak Wang1, Fatimah Ahmad2

1Faculty of Information and Communication Technology

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 46200, PJ, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

2Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology,

Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, MALAYSIA.

 

The ability to search a collection of fabrics to find a particular combination of texture is increasingly important especially in the area of fashion and interior design. Different designers working in similar fields may have different ideas on their products such as pattern of clothes, textures of textiles, placements and colour combinations of floor tiles, wall papers etc. Instead of producing these works on papers, which may suffer from the risks of corruption, more designers have now relied on the use of storage technology to store their works in graphic forms. This does not only conserve space but also enables them to retrieve their works for reference whenever they intend to. When the number of stored images grows, searching for a desired piece of design work is likely to be time-consuming and painstaking. A large collection of images containing different designs pattern and textures of certain fashion designs demands for efficient search system. Of all the visual contents identifiable from a fabric image, texture is considered to be the commonest visual attribute that aids in image retrieval. Common approaches for texture-based image retrievals are largely centered around frequency-based models, which are notably suffered from the problem of poor retrieval accuracy. In this paper, a novel approach for texture-based image retrieval has been proposed. This approach, known as power spectrum analysis, or PSA for short, is based on the idea of dividing an image into six equally sized partitions where the power spectrum of each partition is computed to be used to aid in the image retrieval process. Benchmarked using the popular performance measurement technique, Recall and Precision, adopting the PSA technique for retrieving images based on their texture contents has produced remarkable retrieval accuracy, almost three times more accurate over any other frequency-based models.

 

 

CSPA910

 

Keystroke Pressure-Based Typing Biometrics Authentication System Using ANN and SVM-Based Classifiers

 

Hasimah Ali1, Momoh J. E. Salami2, Wahyudi2, Mohamad Arinal1

1School of Mechatronics Engineering,

Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600 Jejawi, Perlis, MALAYSIA.

2Department of Mechatronics,

IIUM Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA.

 

Security of an information system depends to a large extent on its ability to authenticate legitimate users as well as to withstand attacks of various kinds. Confidence in its ability to provide adequate authentication is, however, waning. This is largely due to the wrongful use of passwords by many users. In this paper, the design and development of keystroke pressure-based typing biometrics for individual user’s verification which based on the analysis of habitual typing of individuals is discussed. The paper examines the use of maximum pressure exerted on the keyboard and time latency between keystrokes as features to create typing patterns for individual users. Combining both an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are adopted as classifiers to verify the authorized and unauthorized users based on extracted features of typing biometric. The effectiveness of the proposed system is evaluated based upon False Reject Rate (FRR) and False Accept Rate (FAR). A series of experiment shows that the proposed system that used combined classifiers produces good FAR and FRR.

 

 

CSPA919

 

Backstepping Controller Design for a Quadrotor Unmanned Air Vehicle

 

A. F. Mohamed, Atheer L. Salih, and M. Moghavvemi

University of Malaya

 

This paper presents the design of a backstepping controller for a quadrotor vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned air vehicle. This controller sets the helicopter to track three certain positions (x, y, z) and the yaw angle to their desired values. In addition, it stabilizes the pitch and roll angles. The model of the system is presented in three interconnected subsystems; 1. an underactuated subsystem S1 representing the under-actuated subsystem which gives the dynamic relation of the horizontal positions (x, y) with the pitch and roll angles, 2. a fully-actuated subsystem S2 that provides the dynamics of the vertical position z and the yaw angle (z and ψ), and 3. rotors subsystem S3 which gives the dynamics of the propeller forces (F1, F2, F3 and F4). To stabilize the overall system, the backstepping controller designed based on the Lyapunov stability theory. Various simulations of the model show that the control law stabilizes the quadrotor with good tracking. It generates the control signals u = [u1, u2, u3, u4] for DC motors of the quadrotor helicopter ensuring that the position {x (t), y (t), z (t), ψ (t)} track the desired trajectories {xd(t), yd(t), zd(t), ψd(t)} respectively. The control commands stabilize the pitch and the roll angles {Ř(t), θ(t)} as well. However, the last step design has been modified to

include a dynamic of the four rotors, which is used to generate the lift forces. To verify the performance of the proposed backstepping controller, a classical PD controller is presented in this paper and the results of the two controllers are compared. The simulation results show the good performances and the differences between the tow types of the controllers.

 

 

CSPA963

 

Study the Effect of Drain Induced Barrier Lowering (DIBL) on P-Type MOSFET Device

 

Hashimah Hashim, Ahmad Sabirin Zoolfakar and M.H.F.M. Safaia

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

This paper presents the study of DIBL on PMOS device by using SILVACO TCAD simulator. The study is based on the effect of DIBL due to short channel transistor. The aim is to reduce the effect of DIBL in short channel device. From the conducted experiment, there are two approaches to reduce DIBL effect. The two approaches are reducing the quantity of HCL and reducing the temperature of implantation process. Three different values of drain voltage, VD are biased in PMOS device to investigate the role of this voltage on DIBL effects. The DIBL value can be calculated and simulated from the software. From the simulation results that have been conducted shows that the value of DIBL is reduced by 1.5% when the quantity of HCL is reduced.

 

 

CSPA968

 

An Overview of Dual Band Antenna for WLAN Application

 

Mohammad Tariqul Islam1,2, Tan Yee Mun1, Chan Yee Kit1, Norbahiah Misran2

1Faculty of Engineering & Technology,

Multimedia University, Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama, 75450 Melaka, MALAYSIA.

2Institute of Space Science (ANGKASA),

University Kebangsaan Malaysia, MALAYSIA.

 

A comprehensive overview of recent developments of new and innovative antenna designs is presented in this paper. A theoretical investigation is carried out on microstrip patch antenna for WLAN application in this research. Investigation is carried out on the basis of design perspectives, size, impedance bandwidth and cross polarization level of antenna. Approximate equations for designing patch antenna are illustrated. In addition, the design flow chart and guidelines for developing dual band microstrip antenna are also provided.

 

 

CSPA974

 

Sample Rate Converter from CD to DAT using Truncated Lagrange Interpolation

 

Aseim Najem, Ahmed Elbarsha

EE-Department,

Garyounis University, Benghazi-LIBYA

 

In sampling rate conversion between two different formats, the desired output sample values are the interpolated sample values at noninteger (or, integer) multiples of the original sampling period. In this letter, we present a sampling rate conversion from 44.1-kHz compact disc to 48-kHz digital audio tape formats. This method involves upsampling the input signal by two, and then passing the interpolated signal through a fractional delay filter (FDF) based on truncated Lagrange interpolation. This structure will be more efficient than when we use fractional delay filter based on Lagrange interpolation, because the proposed filter is computationally efficient; where, it is based on polynomial formulas, which have common terms for all coefficients, and maintains high quality of signal-to-noise ratio as same as in the other method.

 

 

CSPA979

 

Dynamic Modelling of a Two-link Flexible Manipulator

 

M. A. Ahmad1, Z. Mohamed2 and A. N. K. Nasir1

1Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Malaysia Pahang, 25000 Kuantan, MALAYSIA.

2Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, MALAYSIA.

 

This paper presents dynamic modelling of a manipulator with two-link flexible manipulator based on closed-form equations of motion.  The kinematic model is based on standard frame transformation matrices describing both rigid rotation and modal displacement, under small deflection assumption. The Lagrangian approach is used to derive the dynamic model of the structure. Links are modelled as Euler-Bernoulli beams with proper clamped-mass boundary conditions. Explicit equations of motions are detailed by assuming two modes of vibration for each link. Moreover, effects of payload on the response of the flexible manipulator are discussed. Extensive results are included that validate the theoretical derivation.

 

 

CSPA981

 

Integrated Gas Sensor Based On Infrared Absorption For Monitoring Indoor Air Quality

 

Marianah Masrie1, Anuar Ahmad2, Ruslan Rolon1, Ramli Adnan1,

1Department of System Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi Mara, Shah Alam, Selangor

2Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Industry Selangor, Selangor

 

Non-dispersive infrared gas sensor has become one of the methods for gas detection in indoor environment. Most of the sensors have the capability of sensing only single gas and the light source is usually a thermal source that has many disadvantages. This paper discussed the development of an integrated gas sensor based on infrared absorption technology to measure the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) to 1 part per million (ppm) level for indoor environment. PbSe Photoresistor was used as a sensor to measure the two gases at the absorption band spectrums of 4.3 µm for CO2 and 4.6 µm for CO molecules in the air. The infrared lights are emitted by two light emitting diodes (LEDs). These light sources are much smaller, high speed, low power consumption and does not need optical filters. Some experimental results will also be presented to show the performance of the develop prototype system.

 

 

CSPA982

 

Analysis of the Execution Time for Point-to-Point Communication Operations in a Cluster-based Parallel System

 

Mohamed Faidz Mohamed Said1, Mohd Nasir Taib2 and Saadiah Yahya1

1 Faculty of Information Technology & Quantitative Sciences

2 Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA

 

Point-to-point communication is fundamental to all communication subsystems in cluster computers. It forms a basis for efficient message implementation, especially those that involve software applications. A point-to-point communication service involves a sender and a receiver. The model for point-to-point communication involves three parameters: sending latency, receiving latency, and network latency. The network latency is the time required to transmit the message across the network and generally several significant factors may contribute to it, including network bandwidth, underlying switching mechanism, and blocking time. This research attempts to measure the blocking time effect accurately by conducting a benchmarking test in the controlled parallel computing environment.

 

 

CSPA983

 

MPI Overlap Performance Results in a Beowulf Cluster

 

Mohamed Faidz Mohamed Said1, Mohd Nasir Taib2 and Saadiah Yahya1

1 Faculty of Information Technology & Quantitative Sciences

2 Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA

 

Performance of Message Passing Interface (MPI) operations was measured on a small-scale Beowulf cluster system. The library used for the parallel programming is mpich implementation version 1.2.0. The tests were run using Linux operating system due to its sophisticated multitasking virtual memory kernel. When choosing communication operations, many of the design choices for parallel software architecture are concerned with the detailed behaviour of its low-level primitives. There are few studies using these primitives that quantify the potential benefit of overlap of message transfer with computation. This research attempts to address with an empirical method to quantify the potential overlap and examine the possible performance benefit. The results demonstrate that a high potential tolerance to network latency and bandwidth exist. This allows for a significant relaxation of network requirements without a consequent degradation of application performance.

 

 

CSPA984

 

Symptoms and Signs in Dengue Patients Utilizing The Self Organizing Map

 

Tarig Faisal1, Fatimah Ibrahim1, Mohd Nasir Taib2

1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,

University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA.

2 Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi Mara, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, MALAYSIA.

 

Early clinical diagnosis is needed in order to identify the level of the disease in dengue patients. However, the physician cannot distinguish between the dengue fever DF and the dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) at the early stage. Therefore, many statistical studies were conducted to define the significant symptoms and signs for classifying the dengue patients at the early stage. However, none of those studies utilized the unsupervised neural network for visualizing, analyzing and understanding the complication of symptoms and signs in the dengue patients. Thus, this study was conducted to investigate the significant symptoms and signs in dengue patients before the day of defervescence. The self organizing map (SOM) was utilized to visualize and understands the symptoms and signs of 195 dengue patients. The results show that the bleeding tendency and Abdominal Epigastic pain are the significant common signs which can be use to classify the dengue patient in all days. Moreover, Flash Face is the significant sign presented in days 3 and day 2. Conjunctivitis and Petechiea Rash was presented on day 2 as a significant sign for the dengue patient classification.

 

 

CSPA990

 

Reduction of Crosstalk by Adding Grounded Tracks on Printed Circuit Board

 

Ahmed Alferjani, Ahmed Elbarsha

Garyounis University, BenghaziLIBYA.

 

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) is a growing problem with new electronic devices using high-speed switching circuits and transmitting wide-band signals on densely packed printed circuit boards (PCB’s). Cross-talk can result in the degradation of analog signals, or the loss of digital information. This paper presents a technique based on additional traces grounded by vias, which the cross-talk can be minimized. The circuit analysis code SPICE is used to analyze a model of coupled lines. The simulation method proposed in this work is time-domain methods with input signal is trapezoidal signal.

 

 

CSPA993

 

Parallel Algorithm for Blind Source Separation

 

Ibrahim Elimam Abdalla1, Abubakr Elsidig Mirghani El Hussien1, Aisha Hassan Abdalla2

1 Al Neelain University, Khartoum, SUDAN.

2 International Islamic University Malaysia, MALAYSIA.

 

In Blind Source Separation a mixture of sources, sounds or any type of signals are to be separated without any prior information about these sources and the way they have been mixed. Most of the methods and algorithms that have been developed to tackle this problem are computationally expensive. Specially those dealing with Convolutive Blind Source Separation. Here, a new parallel, computationally none expensive Convolutive Blind Source Separation algorithm is presented and evaluated. Then parallelization of an already existing Blind Source separation algorithm is also presented and tested.

 

 

CSPA995

 

Hybrid Color Image Segmentation Algorithm

Azilah Saparon and Sasni Ismail

Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, MALAYSIA.

 

The objective of color image segmentation is to separate spatial regions of an image on the basis of similarity within each region and distinction between different regions without a priori knowledge about specific surfaces. It is the first step in image analysis and pattern recognition.  Several techniques can be used for color image segmentation such as empirical evaluation of various color spaces, clustering in feature space, and physics-based modeling. This paper presents some analyses on several color image segmentation techniques and amongst them are edge detection, histogram threshold and region-based approaches.    This is done by testing some edge detector algorithms and comparing their limits and their contribution to image segmentation.   The same process is done on region based algorithms and histogram threshold approaches.  Based on the findings of each technique, this work is aimed to identify which of the approaches works best at achieving a system that can reliably split up objects under active contour or boundary and variable color condi­tions so that we can have accurate segmentation results. A procedure to integrate the techniques has been identified  which is  the main contours of the image are used to identify the different regions present in the image and then the segmentation stage is performed based on the active region model which allows us to take region and boundary information into account in order to segment the whole image. This is known as Hybrid approach and from the results; Sobel edge detector and Otsu’s clustering methods give better color image segmentation. Hence, the proposed strategy of segmentation is considered  to be the best choice for the color image segmentation by taking color properties into account. 

 

 

CSPA700

 

Classification Of Electricity Demands Based On Fuzzy Clustering

 

Z  Zakaria1 MIEEE, M H Sohod2 MIEEE, N Md Tahir2 MIEEE

1 Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, MALAYSIA.

2 Engineering Department, TNB Distribution,

Tenaga Nasional Berhad, MALAYSIA.

 

The electricity industries need new business strategies for providing value added service to consumer. Analysis of consumer behavior in handling load usage is an important errand since it could provide the demand characteristic of a particular consumer. This information could be used in making new marketing strategies, electricity pricing and policy making. A demand characteristic could be extracted from the monthly billing data but sometimes it is insufficient.  Besides that, another method that could be applied to analyze the electricity demands would be by installing time interval meter, quarter-hourly, half-hourly or hourly at each of the point’s demands. However, this method is expensive and costly due to equipment, maintenance and processing cost. Therefore, load profile acquired by classifying the load curves is seen as the other alternative approach for providing a satisfactory and most cost-effective approach in analyzing the consumers’ demand characteristics. This paper investigates the capability of fuzzy clustering in classifying electricity daily load curve from different feeders in a particular distribution network. Fuzzy clustering based on fuzzy relation has been employed in this work. Further, a factor analysis technique namely Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is used to examine the daily load curve to determine the most valuable features of the load data prior to clustering process. Results obtained demonstrate the ability of the proposed method in classifying electricity demands according to the energy consumption.

 

 

CSPA807

 

Evaluation of Optimized NNARX Structure in Modeling of Steam Distillation Essential Oil Extraction System

 

Mohd Hezri Fazalul Rahiman, Mohd Nasir Taib and Yusof Md Salleh

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA

40450 Shah Alam, Malaysia

 

This paper evaluates the Neural Network AutoRegressive with eXogenous (NNARX) structure in modeling the steam distillation essential oil extraction. The model order will be selected based on Rissanen’s Minimum Description Length (MDL) information criterion. In the training of NNARX model, both unregularized and regularized models will be assessed. There are three regularization levels of the weight decay that will be implemented in this work. The number of hidden neuron and iteration will be optimized before the training session. The testing of the trained model will be based on R2, adjusted-R2, NMSE, RMSE, residual histogram and correlation tests. All results will be compared and evaluated with respect to the testing data. 

 

 

CSPA819

 

Characterization of Pharmaceutical Film using Microwave Non-Destructive Testing Technique

 

Nor Khaizan Anuar1,3, Mohd Nasir Taib2,3 Wong Tin Wui1,3 and Deepak K. Ghodgaonkar4

1Particle Design Research Group, Faculty of Pharmacy,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam Selangor, MALAYSIA.

2Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam Selangor, MALAYSIA.

3Non-Destructive Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research Centre,

Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam Selangor, MALAYSIA.

4Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology,

DA-IICT Near Indroda Circle, Gandhinagar, 382007, Gujarat, INDIA.

 

The applicability of microwave non-destructive testing (NDT) technique as an optional tool in drug content measurement of pharmaceutical films was investigated. Hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC) was selected as the model matrix polymer with polyethylene glycol (PEG) 3000 as the plasticizer and loratadine as the model drug. Both blank and drug-loaded films were prepared using the solvent-evaporation method. The results indicated that the microwave NDT technique is potentially useful in quantification of drug content via the measurement of power transmission coefficient (nPTC) (Linear regression values: r value -0.91 and p < 0.05) of the pharmaceutically prepared film. Practically, the significance of correlation between the nPTC values and drug content was not affected by the composition and storage humidity of films, as well as, the microwave frequency band employed in the characterization of the films.

 

 

CSPA835