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    Reprogramming the articulated robotic arm for glass handling by using Arduino microcontroller
    ( 2017-09-26) ; ;
    Mohd Asmadi Akmal Kadir
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    Mohd Hisam Daud
    The application of articulated robotic arm in industries is raised due to the expansion of using robot to replace human task, especially for the harmful tasks. However a few problems happen with the program use to schedule the arm, Thus the purpose of this project is to design, fabricate and integrate an articulated robotic arm by using Arduino microcontroller for handling glass sorting system. This project was designed to segregate glass and non-glass waste which would be pioneer step for recycling. This robotic arm has four servo motors to operate as a whole; three for the body and one for holding mechanism. This intelligent system is controlled by Arduino microcontroller and build with optical sensor to provide the distinguish objects that will be handled. Solidworks model was used to produce the detail design of the robotic arm and make the mechanical properties analysis by using a CAD software.
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    Deep Eutectic Solvent-Assisted Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Cellulose Adsorbent for Silver Nitrate Removal
    ( 2023-01-01) ;
    Aminuddin N.H.
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    Hashim R.H.R.
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    Jalil M.F.A.
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    Pakir M.A.A.S.
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    Rahman A.
    This study introduces application of deep eutectic solvent-assisted of nanocrystalline cellulose adsorbent for silver nitrate removal. The study aims to offer new green and low energy method in producing nano crystalline cellulose (NCC). NCC from microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) was extracted by using synthesized acidic DES. NCC fabricated was found to have a capability to act as a biosorbent for removal of silver nitrate (AgNO3). The adsorption kinetics and isotherm of silver nitrate on NCC were studied by varies initial concentration of silver nitrate and contact time. The experimental data were analyzed by using Langmuir and Freundlich models of adsorption. The adsorption isotherm data were fitted well to Freundlich adsorption isotherm. The biosorption kinetics data obtained at different time have been analyzed using pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order equation. The experimental data fitted well to pseudo-second order kinetics model. Application of novel and green acidic DES for production of NCC from lignocellulose will contribute to a new paradigm in a green adsorption study.
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    Design and analysis on sorting blade for automated size-based sorting device
    ( 2017-09-26) ; ;
    Yasser Suhaimi Samsudin
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    Mohd Hisam Daud
    Nowadays rubbish separating or recycling is a main problem of nation, where peoples dumped their rubbish into dumpsite without caring the value of the rubbish if it can be recycled and reused. Thus the author proposed an automated segregating device, purposely to teach people to separate their rubbish and value the rubbish that can be reused. The automated size-based mechanical segregating device provides significant improvements in terms of efficiency and consistency in this segregating process. This device is designed to make recycling easier, user friendly, in the hope that more people will take responsibility if it is less of an expense of time and effort. This paper discussed about redesign a blade for the sorting device which is to develop an efficient automated mechanical sorting device for the similar material but in different size. The machine is able to identify the size of waste and it depends to the coil inside the container to separate it out. The detail design and methodology is described in detail in this paper.
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    Kinematics analysis on hinges of robot arm gripper for harmful chemical handling
    ( 2017-09-26) ; ;
    Nurul Fahimah Mustafa
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    Mohd Hisham Daud
    The development of manufacturing industry is booming the application of industrial robot, and proportional to the use of robot arm. Some of the purpose of robot arm gripper is to sort things and place to the proper place. And some of the things are harmful to human, such as harmful chemical. By using robot arm to do picking and placing, it is expected to replace human tasks, as well as to reduce human from the harmful job. The problem of the robot arm gripper, most likely the problem of hinge, thus the analysis on the hinges of robot arm gripper to prevent claw is essential. By using robot arm, instead of human, is labored to do the harmful tasks and unexpected accident happen, costs and expenses in handling injured employee due to the harmful chemicals can be minimized. Thus the objective of this project is to make a kinematics analysis on the hinges of the robot arm gripper. Suitable material such as steel structure has also been selected for the construction of this hinges. This material has properties associated with compressive strength, fire resistance, corrosion and has a shape that is easy to move. Solid Works and ANSYS software is used to create animated movement on the design model and to detect deficiencies in the hinges. Detail methodology is described in this paper.
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    Electronic Nose Testing for Confined Space Application Utilizes Principal Component Analysis and Support Vector Machine
    ( 2020-12-18)
    Bakar M.A.A.
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    Abdullah A.H.
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    Saidi S.A.
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    Aman M.N.S.B.S.
    A confined space has a limited space for entry and exit but it is large enough for workers to enter and perform work inside. It is not designed for continuous occupancy because it can contribute atmospheric hazards accidents that threaten the worker safety and industry progress. In this work, we reported the testing an instrument to assist workers for atmosphere testing during pre-entry. An electronic nose (e-nose) using specific sensor arrays is the integration between hardware and software that able to sense different concentrations of gases in an air sample using pattern recognition techniques. The instrument utilizes multivariate statistical analysis which is Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for discriminate the different concentrations of gases and the Support Vector Machine (SVM) to classify the acquired data from the air sample. The instrument was successfully tested using diesel, gasoline, petrol and thinner. The results show that the instrument able to discriminate an air sample using PCA with total variation for 99.94%, while the classifier success rate for SVM indicates at 98.21% for train performance and 95.83% for test performance. This will contribute significantly to acquiring a new and alternative method of using the instrument for monitoring the atmospheric hazards in confined space to ensure the safety of workers during work progress in a confined space.
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    Characterizing Global Hand-Crafted Feature Descriptors for Sketch-Based Image Retrie
    ( 2022-02-14)
    Abbas M.H.
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    Che Ani A.I.
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    Abd Samat A.A.
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    Hazim M.A.
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    Setumin S.
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    Sketch-based Image Retrieval (SBIR) is an essential method of searching objects by drawing them in two-dimensional (2-D). The SBIR problem was that the image inside the dataset did not match the pair due to its modality difference. The main objective of this research is to compare which descriptor is better adapted to the SBIR. Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG), Gabor, and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) are selected for the study. Each sample will be divided into distance measures with features vector that corresponds to the training dataset will be compared the performance in order to study the best adapted to SBIR. Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) is identified as the best descriptor for SBIR. HOG has shown a better performance than Gabor and LBP since the method shows the highest percent of distance matrices accuracy.
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  • Publication
    Automotive Mechanical Vehicle Starter
    (IOP Publishing, 2021-12-01) ; ; ; ; ;
    Setumin S.
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    Osman M.K.
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    Idris M.
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    Akbar M.F.
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    Muhammad Anas Ahmad Sarbini
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    Nor Syamina Sharifful Mizam
    This research is used to crank start automotive vehicle. There are many different system used in order to start-up vehicles using electric starter, in the time of battery low-power or totally drained. The purpose of this research is to help the driver to get out of this difficulty. Nowadays there are many people that have experienced such a bad moment, where they are stranded at road side due to malfunction starter in their car because of battery problem. Most of the vehicle electric starter failure is because of battery corrosion or battery undercharged. The importance of this research is to solve this problem. Starter is a vital part of the vehicle, without it no automotive vehicles able to operate. These starters will rotate an internal-combustion engine to initiate the engine's operation under its own power. Starters also can be malfunction too due to corroded electrical connections or an undercharged battery. This system can be used to solve this problem. This system used human energy by using mechanical parts in order to produce electrical power. In order to produce electrical current, workforce will be applied by rotating the wheel that already linked by belt and from that rotations will trigger a magnetic force and it will produce an electrical current and supply it into battery. This system is divided into two development; hardware development and software development. The hardware development involved, mechanical device which is used and electrical device such as monitor. For software development, Fritzing is used to construct circuit.
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    Aquaponic Ecosystem Monitoring with IOT Application
    Aquaculture is an agricultural technology that combines aquaculture (fish farming activities) with hydroponic activities (planting crops without soil media) in one circulation. The most important element in aquaculture is the existence of fish, plants, and bacteria. These three elements form a mutually beneficial relationship or symbiotic mutualism. The main purpose of the aquaculture system is to maintain water quality and reduce ammonia levels from the water so that it can be utilized by other organisms. In addition, aquaculture can also save space and can produce two types of human food simultaneously, plants and livestock. Agricultural technology design with Aquaculture also uses the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) as information from sensors and sensors of value generator is accessible through applications installed on smartphones from anywhere with an Internet connection. Development of monitoring of aquaponic ecosystems with IoT systems was developed using a program using micro-controls to control temperature, humidity, pH levels and water pumps. There are some improvements made to this project.
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    Self-assessing psychomotor skills using thinking-aloud technique via smartphone
    ( 2022)
    Nor Syamina Sharifful Mizam
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    This research aims to design and develop an automated device for self-assessing psychomotor skills without an instructor’s observation. The lab assessment usually needs an instructor to observe, measure, and analyze the student's skills. It consumed much time to monitor each student. The problem of assessing psychomotor skills in the laboratory can be solved using the latest technology. Thus, the design of an Automated Psychomotor Testing Kit will be used to measure student psychomotor skills via a smartphone. The result can be transmitted to the instructor's smartphone via the Blynk application using the Arduino Mega and Bluetooth module. For this research, 17 students of Robotic and Automation Technology (Treatment Group) and 19 volunteered students from other engineering technology programs (Control Group) participated. The detailed methodology is described in this paper. The results show that there is a significant difference in mean scores between the treatment and control groups. Thus, the researcher can conclude that changes in students' Psychomotor Skills (P.S.) resulting from laboratory classes are statistically significant and be measured.
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    Methylene blue dye adsorption by using deep eutectic solvent pre-treated wood chips
    ( 2022-11-18)
    Muhammad Masrur Jamil
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    Mohd Faizal Ab Jalil
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    Mohamed Syazwan Osman
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    Adsorption of Methylene Blue using biomass or bioproduct of industries has received major attention by the researcher and industries. In this study, wood chips treated using deep eutectic solvents (DES) was used for adsorption of methylene blue. The surface and pores of this wood chips were analyzed by using scanning electron microscope (SEM). One Factor At a Time (OFAT) method was carried out to study the effect of contact time and biomass dosage on adsorption efficiency. Evaluation of pretreated wood chips biosorption, isotherms and kinetics were also studied.. Wood chips treated with DES changes the surface area and the pores of wood chips and improved the adsorption process efficiency. Freundlich isotherm and pseudo-second show correlation coefficient of R2, 0.9591 and 0.9999 respectively. Wood chips treated using deep eutectic solvents demonstrate a great potential as a cheap biosorbent for the removal of methylene blue by looking at the isotherm and kinetic studies.
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