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    Determination of blind spot zone for motorcycles
    The problem of the blind spot zone (BSZ) for motorcycles is common, as it causes many accidents that occur between motorcycles and cars, or motorcycles with other vehicles. The problem of BSZ is occurring for many reasons, such as if the motorcyclist wants to change the lane or manoeuvre or turn without realizing the presence of other vehicle which may cause a terrible collision and leads to casualties, either because of darkness, the full dependence on side mirrors that give a limited scope of vision, or due to a malfunction in the front lights of the car that prevented the motorcyclists from recognizing it. However there were limited research on identifation of BSZ for motorcycle, even though most vehicle accidents in Malaysia involved motorcycles. This paper discusses the initial works on the identification of BSZ for motorcyles. Three types of motorcycles were used to determine the BSZ using grid-based technique. From the data collected, the BSZ was identified for the motorcycles.
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    Vision-Based Edge Detection System for Fruit Recognition
    ( 2021-12-01)
    Tan S.H.
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    Lam Chee Kiang
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    Sneah G.K.
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    Seng M.L.
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    Hai T.P.
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    Lye O.T.
    There are variety of fruits around the world, different types of fruits contain different types of nutrients and vitamins which could benefits our health. In order to understand which fruit can provide specific type of nutrients, we need to identify the types of fruits. However, fruits grow in a different shape, colour and texture based on the country they were planted and the environment of the land. Implementing a machine vision-based recognition on the fruits can help people recognize them easily. In this paper, an edge detection method is applied using computer vision approach to recognize different types of fruits. The fruits are classified based on the features extracted from their images. In the experiment, a total of 450 images of three types of fruit are used, which are apples, lemons and mangoes. Pre-processing steps are applied on the captured image to improve the quality of fruit details and the edge features are extracted using Canny Edge Detection method. Classification of the fruits is accomplished using two different types of learning model, the deep leaning model, Convolution Neural Network (CNN) and machine learning model, Support Vector Machines (SVM). The performance of both classifiers is compared and the model with the best performance, SVM is chosen as the model for the system. The system can achieve 86% classification accuracy with the SVM model, which is good enough for fruit recognition.
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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.
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    Hashim M.S.M.
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    Othman S.M.
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    Kanafiah S.N.A.M.
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    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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    Analysis of WiFi Spatio-Temporal Data for Organic Fingerprinting-based Indoor Positioning System
    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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    Robot Face and Its Integration to the Mobile Robot for Wireless Signal Collection in the Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Positioning System
    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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    Does the Height Matter? A Case for Wi-Fi based Wireless Positioning System
    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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    IoT Based Smart Betta Fish Monitoring system with fish fatality prediction.
    This study enlightens the importance of rearing water quality to Betta fish health. A water quality monitoring system was developed based on water quality parameters namely water pH, temperature (°C) and TDS level (ppm). Fuzzy Logic Algorithm was applied to predict the possibility of the fish to get infected by the disease using combination of the water quality parameters value. Graphical User Interface (GUI) was developed to test the efficiency of the fish disease prediction system using fuzzy logic algorithm before the fuzzy rule been embedded to the IOT system. Arduino Uno Wi-Fi R2.0 and Blynk Apps used for enabling the system to update the aquarium water quality to owner in real-time. Hydroponic technology implemented in this project for recirculate rearing water inside the fish tank. Theoretically, the aquaponic system will help regulate the water tank parameters in optimum range and Betta Splendens should be free from all diseases.
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    A Deep Learning Approach for Face Detection and Recognition to Initiate Human-Robot Conversation
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2024-06-04) ;
    Mohammed Khaled Ahmed Al Ghaili
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    Mohamad Amir Hamzah Md Yusof
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    Saeed Akash Mastoi
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    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently booming at almost all field. The inauguration of OpenAI ChatGPT using Natural Language Processing (NLP) has played a vital role in exposing AI to the public. It is estimated about 1.8 billion users visit ChatGPT site in a month, with further planning of apps creation in iTunes Apple App Store and Android Google Playstore. Therefore, it is interesting and natural to implement such technology in robotic field. This paper presents the attempt to employ AI into the mobile robot system towards the main goals of conversational intelligence between human and robot. First, the robot head is designed and assembled, then a screen that functioned as the robot face is attached. Afterwards the detection and recognition system were developed giving the ability to the robot to recognize registered persons and the robot eye is able to track where the person is, in the camera Field-of-View (FOV). In addition, all these systems are developed on in-situ device i.e. NVIDIA® JetsonTM Nano. It is targeted that the proposed system is able to initiate a natural conversation between a robot and a human user.
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    Numerical evaluation of aluminium 6026-T9 fracture toughness
    ( 2021-10-25)
    Zulkifli A.N.
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    Hashim M.S.M.
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    Ismail A.H.
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    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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    CFD Analysis of Pure Waterjet Nozzle for Fruit Peeling and Cutting Process
    Waterjet Technology has been used vastly in our world nowadays due to its advantages and it can be implemented in many industrial sectors or even in the medical sector and food industry sector. Nozzle is a component that has been utilized in waterjet which is employed in a wide range of engineering applications to control the rate of flow, velocity, and the jet pressure of the water. This paper discusses the CFD analysis on a pure waterjet nozzle to obtain the output of the water that jets out from three different diameters of nozzle and select the effective nozzle diameter to be used for the fruit peeling and cutting process. The pressure used for the analysis are 200MPa, 300MPa and 400MPa, which was analysed for three different nozzle diameter 0.76mm, 1.02mm and 1.27mm. From CFD analysis, it is established that as the pressure loss of the water jet increases, the outlet velocity of the jet increases. Furthermore, for fruit peeling and cutting process the impact angle of the nozzle should be prioritised as the peeling of the fruit should be smooth and even before cutting the fruit. Thus, the most suitable parameters were found to be 400MPa and 1.02mm of pressure and nozzle diameter respectively. This will allow for the intended fruit cutting process with a stand-off distance that can be ranged from 1mm to 9mm.
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