Abdul Halim Ismail
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A Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication between Mobile Robots using Wireless Communication Protocol in Dynamic Environments

2024-03-11 , Sarhan M.A.H. , Hashim M.S.M. , Abdul Halim Ismail , Mohd Nasir Ayob , Hassrizal Hassan Basri , Muhamad Safwan Muhamad Azmi , Othman S.M. , Kanafiah S.N.A.M. , Muhamad Khairul Ali Hassan

Mobile robots must have the ability to guarantee safety for operation in a dynamic environment and close to other moving objects. There are many research had been conducted to make the robot safer by utilizing sensors and big data technology to make the mobile robot able to navigate autonomously and intelligently. One of the key elements in autonomous robots is communication between robots. In this paper, device-to-device (D2D) technology has been used to develop communication between robots. To establish the algorithm for D2D communications, radio frequency (RF) used as communication protocols that can perform D2D communication in real-time applications. The performance of D2D communication was then be assessed in terms of distance and latency. RF transceiver module has been mounted on the robot with Arduino to allow communication between mobile robot to other mobile robots in order to transfer data from robot's sensors to the other mobile robots. By utilizing the gathered information and data, the robot can assess its surroundings and predict the movement of other robots to avoid collisions between robots. The results show that the RF transceiver module is capable to send and receive data between two robots with latency up to 4.865s. It is envisaged that the proposed module can be very useful for developing D2D communication between robots to operate in dynamic environments.

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An IoT Agricultural System for Harumanis Farm

2021-12-01 , Ismail F.A. , Muhamad Khairul Ali Hassan , Fathinul Syahir Ahmad Sa'ad , Haniza Yazid , Muhammad Juhairi Aziz Safar , Khairul Salleh Basaruddin , Abdul Halim Ismail , Mohd Nasir Ayob

Internet of Things (IoT) is a revolutionary technology that represents the future of communication and computing. The field of IoT implementation is vast and can be applied in every field. This project is about to develop an IoT system for Harumanis Farm as agriculture is becoming an essential growing sector throughout the world due to the increasing population. The major challenge in the Harumanis sector is to improve the productivity and quality of Harumanis without continuous manual monitoring. IoT improves crop management, cost-effectiveness, crop monitoring and also improves the quality and quantity of the crop. This IoT system completes with several sensors to monitor the Harumanis farm, such as temperature and humidity sensor, pH level sensor, soil moisture sensor, also nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium (NPK) sensor. The system is a simple IoT architecture where sensors collect information and send it over the Wi-Fi network to the mobile applications.

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Does the Height Matter? A Case for Wi-Fi based Wireless Positioning System

2023-01-01 , Abdul Halim Ismail , Sunang G.A. , Muhamad Safwan Muhamad Azmi , Mohd Nasir Ayob , Mohd Sani Mohamad Hashim , Hassrizal Hassan Basri , Widyasmoro W. , Ismail M.M.

Wireless Positioning System (WPS) is an emerging field rises with the aim to minimize the development and algorithm cost as well as applicable in many applications. The methods are rather straightforward compared to the use of conventional on-board sensing elements that often require fusion of several sensors as well as complex algorithms. Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) is the choice of elements in WPS due to wide availability as well as use of existing infrastructure. One interesting factor to consider in obtaining higher positioning accuracy is to assess the Wi-Fi height level. Many previous studies proposed optimization of the Wi-Fi antenna heights, but our direction is towards experimental works to observe if the antenna heights does matter or is it a totally insignificant parameter. Three different analyses were conducted on the data, which are statistical, two-layer average and quotient calculations. The results are validated for our experiments heights from 0.5 to 2.0 meter.

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Short Range Radio Frequency (RF) Data Acquisition Unit for Agricultural Product Monitoring System

2024-01-01 , Shatir S.M.N.S. , Elmi A.B. , Akhtar M.N. , Abdullah M.N. , Abdul Halim Ismail

This research emphasized on the experimentation performed on the 2.4 Ghz radio frequency (RF) module, utilized on Standstill Monitoring System (SMS), to discover the factors hindering the capabilities of the RF range and data stability in plantation environment, then proposed a signal enhancement technique. The architecture of SMS consists of sensor modules such as temperature, humidity, soil moisture and soil nutrition sensor to analyze as well as monitor real-time data on agriculture parameters through an IoT dashboard. The experiments were carried out, where the transmitter (Tx) was placed at the three ground stations with three different surrounding condition which is no obstruction, mild obstructions and full obstructions. The receiver (Rx) module was moved away from the ground station and transmission status was monitored. Findings showed that the transmission range without no obstruction is 70 m, with partial blockage is 50 m and total blockage is 10 m. By applying signal enhancement method which is implementing capacitor and breakout board, the range has been boosted to 350 m, 320 m and 160 m respectively. With this findings, wireless communication waypoint can be plotted out at a Harumanis plantation which allows farmers to supervise their plantation at distance.

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Analysis of WiFi Spatio-Temporal Data for Organic Fingerprinting-based Indoor Positioning System

2022-01-01 , Abdul Halim Ismail , Amirah Husna Mohd Hajazi , Muhamad Safwan Muhamad Azmi , Mohd Sani Mohamad Hashim , Mohd Nasir Ayob , Hassrizal Hassan Basri

The mobile robot navigation is the next huge topic after positioning utilizing fingerprinting-based Wireless Positioning System (WPS). Many of recent works does not discuss this topic yet since many open problems in positioning topic are not yet solved, for instance the issues on multi-devices heterogeneity, instability of WiFi signals, granularity problems in grid-based indoor environment and many others. However, we anticipate that both positioning and navigation works must run in parallel so that the succession are guaranteed. This paper describes the analysis of spatio-temporal data of the signal obtained from the WiFi Access Point. Initial results suggest that the difference between transmitter heights have an effect on the spatio-temporal data while the handover of maximum signal strengths is inherent when three WiFi APs are used.

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Position Tracking Performance with Fine Tune Ziegler-Nichols PID Controller for Electro-Hydraulic Actuator in Aerospace Vehicle Model

2021-12-01 , Devendiranath K. , Siti Marhainis Othman , Sunar N. , Hassrizal Hassan Basri , Abdul Halim Ismail , Mohd Nasir Ayob , Azmi M.S.M. , Mohd Sani Mohamad Hashim

Electro-Hydraulic Actuator (EHA) system is a third order non-linear system which is highly suffer from system uncertainties such as Coulomb friction, viscous friction and pump leakage coefficient which makes this system more complicated for the designing of the controller. The Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller has proposed in this paper to control EHA system and main problem in its application is to tune the parameter to its optimum value. Two different methods are used to tune the PID controller which are trial and error and Ziegler-Nichols method. MATLAB Simulink is used to simulate the system. In order to determine the performance of EHA system for the position tracking. 3 different of external disturbance such as 0N, 5000N and 10000N has been injected into the system. Simulation results show that the Ziegler-Nichols fine tuning method provides the better tracking performance when compared to the trial and error method for every specific disturbance setting. The Ziegler Nichols method provides better disturbance rejection as the performances indexes such as percentage overshoot, settling time and steady state error are not affected by the varying of disturbance.

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An Experimental Study of Deep Learning Approach for Indoor Positioning System Using WI-FI System

2021-01-01 , Sa’ahiry A.H.A. , Abdul Halim Ismail , Latifah Munirah Kamarudin , Ammar Zakaria , Nishizaki H.

Global navigation satellite system (GNNS) is known for its capability to detect the whereabouts of any desired target such as vehicles and places. However, there is some disadvantage of these technologies as it can only get a precise location outside of the building because as the signal goes to indoor building, the signal becomes weaker due to attenuation. The Wi-Fi systems are the best alternative to GNNS in an indoor environment since the architecture is massively deployed in many recent buildings. However, Wi-Fi also has its disadvantage where its signal is non-linear due to various factors such as multipath and signal blockage indoors thus limiting the system accuracy. In this paper, a deep learning approach with standalone Wi-Fi technologies will be used to have a precise indoor positioning by using the fingerprinting method. The overall result shows that the average distance error between actual and estimated location is 20-cm and the highest error is 62-cm in an experimental area of 180-cm and 120-cm in x and y axis. This shows that deep learning is a possible method to have accurate and precise indoor positioning.

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Numerical evaluation of aluminium 6026-T9 fracture toughness

2021-10-25 , Zulkifli A.N. , Muhamad Safwan Muhamad Azmi , Ishak Ibrahim , Mohd Sani Mohamad Hashim , Abdul Halim Ismail , Mohd Nasir Ayob

Fracture is the separation of an object into two or more pieces caused by crack growth under the action of applied stress. There are many different methods for fracture evaluation has been made but still lacks information on properties of Aluminium 6026-T9. Aluminium 6026 is non-toxic since it does not contain Tin (Sn) and features a great corrosion resistance. This study focuses on the mechanical properties and fracture toughness of Aluminium 6026-T9. The material is cut and shaped into dog-bone specimens by referring the ASTM E8 and was eventually undergoing a tensile test to evaluate the mechanical properties. A linear elastic analysis of three different crack characteristics which are single edge crack, double edge crack and center crack were performed in Mode I analysis to evaluate its fracture toughness. The stress intensity factor (SIF) value near the crack tip obtained from the simulation process were then compared with analytical value and had been discussed. The percentage of error found that the numerical and analytical values are closed to each other.

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Integrating Vision System to a Pick and Place Cartesian Robot

2021-12-01 , Tan K.S. , Mohd Nasir Ayob , Hassrizal Hassan Basri , Abdul Halim Ismail , Muhamad Safwan Muhamad Azmi , Mohd Sani Mohamad Hashim , Siti Marhainis Othman , Shahriman Abu Bakar , Low Y.H.

Vision aided pick and place cartesian robot is a combination of machine vision system and robotic system. They communicate with each other simultaneously to perform object sorting. In this project, machine vision algorithm for object sorting to solve the problem in failure sorting due to imperfection of images edges and different types of colours is proposed. The image is acquired by a camera and followed by image calibration. Pre-processing of image is performed through these methods, which are HSI colour space transformation, Gaussian filter for image filtering, Otsu's method for image binarization, and Canny edge detection. LabVIEW edge-based geometric matching is selected for template matching. After the vision application analysed the image, electrical signal will send to robotic arm for object sorting if the acquired image is matched with template image. The proposed machine vision algorithm has yielded an accurate template matching score from 800 to 1000 under different disturbances and conditions. This machine vision algorithm provides more customizable parameters for each methods yet improves the accuracy of template matching.

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Robot Face and Its Integration to the Mobile Robot for Wireless Signal Collection in the Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Positioning System

2021-12-01 , Sarhan M.A.H. , Abdul Halim Ismail , Mohd Nasir Ayob , Hashim M.S.M. , Muhamad Safwan Muhamad Azmi , Hassrizal Hassan Basri , Siti Marhainis Othman , Muhammad Juhairi Aziz Safar

The wireless data collection for instance the Received Signal Strength (RSS) of the Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) remained unfavourable in the Indoor Positioning System utilizing the signal fingerprinting approach. This is because the enormous sampling time and routines works making it tedious human labour. To alleviate this issue, we propose to use a robot for wireless data collection. The robot, named 'ICSiBOT' is a service robot with multiple purpose such as assisting human in daily lives, guest or hospitality robot and man others. This paper mainly describes the ICSiBOT robot face with speech recognition technology and the integration of the robot face to the motion controller. The experimental was conducted to see the correlation between the synthesized instructions from the speech in terms of distance need to be travelled i.e., the location for wireless signal collection and translate them into actual distance travelled. The results showed that the robot is able to travel to the specific distance as instructed to the robot face.

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