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    Performance Analysis of Unipolar SPWM Inverter: Resistive load and Inductive load
    ( 2020-12-18) ;
    Yusof A.M.
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    Ahmad N.I.
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    Rahman D.H.A.
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    This paper presents the performance analysis of the Unipolar SPWM Inverter for the resistive and inductive load testing. The common criteria reported in various technical papers where the resistive load will produce a unity power factor correction and lagging power factor behaviour for inductive load. This paper is to demonstrate the performance of both loads that are tested to the single phase Unipolar SPWM inverter under the modulation ratio of 0.8. The performances will be covered in term of the waveform behavior and THDv performance. The project are carried out through the simulation using PSIM software and real implementation to the real hardware. The selection of filter for this paper is the low pass passive LC filter.
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    Perpendicular High Isolation MIMO Antenna
    This research presented a perpendicular high isolation MIMO antenna for LTE advance application. A high gain perpendicular MIMO antenna is concentrated on designing used in LTE advance application. The issues of low isolation of conventional antenna can be solved by structuring a MIMO antenna in order to increase the isolation in LTE advance application. Generally, the array antenna design causes a bigger antenna size and has a mutual coupling which lead to spectral efficiency damage and reduce the MIMO antenna framework performance. The substrate material like FR-4 is choosing as a dielectric substrate due to its good performances for many applications beside it has a low cost and more usable. The advantage of copper such as has a great relative material, cheaper and easy to construct is choose in this project as a conductive material. ADS software has been utilized for the structure stage to design the antenna. Then, the results are evaluated in terms of return loss (S11 and S22), mutual coupling (S12 and S21), match impedance, directivity, radiation pattern, gain and radiated power. Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) is used to measure the fabricated antenna. The factor of cable loses and the soldering technique will make the measurement result was slightly change from the simulating result. However, the antenna design satisfied the proficiency necessity of the antenna which the frequency is drop at 2.5 GHz with the return loss is below than −10 dB.
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    Smart Classroom for Electricity-Saving with Integrated IoT System
    ( 2021-12-01) ;
    Nordin N.A.
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    Ismail I.
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    Jais M.I.
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    Electricity-saving can be achieved through the efficient use of energy, such as turning off lights and electrical appliances when not in use. Therefore, this work proposed the smart classroom for electricity-saving with an integrated IoT System to prevent wasting electricity in the classroom. Smart Classroom means that it will detect and count the number of students entering and exiting the classroom by using a sensor system automatically. The main objective of this work is to control the lighting systems and fans by using the IoT application and sensor system. This means that when the sensor is triggered, the sensor will send data to the Blynk application software using IoT to display the status of the classroom. This proposed work is also able to detect whether a classroom is available to use or not based on the presence of people. If the classroom is being used, the Blynk application software will show the lamp and fan are ON. Otherwise, the lamps and fans are OFF if there are no people in the classroom. The result successfully shows that if the first student entering the classroom, all the lamps and fans are ON. While, if the last student exiting the classroom, all the lamps and fans are OFF. This result also indicates that electricity can be saved if all appliances in the classroom are switch OFF at the right time.
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    The ARX and ARMAX Models for thermoelectric cooling on glass windows: A Comparative study
    Thermoelectric cooling (TEC), in particular, can be combined with a heat sink for local cooling, but they can also be integrated into electronic chips for point-to-point cooling. The study aims to develop a dynamic model of a cooling system integrated with TEC for glass window. The main target of this study is to develop a dynamic model of a cooling system integrated with TEC. The black box modelling approach in producing a mathematical model was selected based on the ARMAX and ARX model that corresponds to the actual dynamic state of the cooling system. The best model was finalized based on the best match on curve patterns when comparing the real and estimated models using the system identification tools in MATLAB, and also having the least error. The accuracy of the models was compared and analysed. The results showed that the 4th order of the ARMAX model produced a higher best fitting and standard deviation values of 80.23% and 0.027592 compared to the 4th order of the ARX model of 78.14% and 0.030769 respectively. This system accuracy is almost within the acceptable range for most error calculations in the validation method. Yet, this cooling system integrated with TEC is found more suitable for the 4th order of the ARMAX model when compared to the ARX model due to the noise parameter in the ARMAX model. Nevertheless, the noise order in this system is not dominant, therefore, whenever the noise order of the system in the ARMAX model is high than the second structure (nb), the number of errors is also high. In addition, the ARMAX model is found incapable of achieving the highest fitting due to the losses from the dynamic environment and losses from the TEC itself. Still, the use of this black box model used in this study is a significant variation where system parameters can be identified even offline.
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    Conceptual Design for Ankle Rehabilitation Robot by Using Morphological Chart and Pugh Method
    ( 2020-12-18)
    Von Teh C.Y.
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    Shahrol Aman M.N.S.
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    Bin Ahmad S.A.
    Lateral ankle sprains are among the most common injuries in competitive sports and recreational activities according to studies. Ankle sprains accounted for 70% or more of all reported ankle injuries in high risks sports. However, ankle sprains often only partially treated and there are more than 40% of ankle sprains are recurrent. Even though the ankle rehabilitation treatment exists, but there are some limitations that relates to the current situations. Firstly, the cost for ankle rehabilitation treatments are high and may be a burden to the patients while the traditional rehabilitation treatment performance highly relies on a physiotherapist's experience and the manual training method makes physiotherapist exhausted. Therefore, ankle rehabilitation robot can help to solve these problems. Morphological Chart are used to generate the concept design while Pugh Method are used to choose the best design. Concept design A (4 DOF Pulley Driven Cable Based Parallel Mechanism Ankle Rehabilitation Robot) are chosen as the best design among 5 concept design due to its advantages in aspect of low cost, easy to use, high portability, high back drivability and fulfilment of ankle rehabilitation exercises.
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    Green Organic Partition Board from Waste Materials as Soundproof Material
    ( 2023-04-01) ;
    Nur S.
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    Yusoff M.N.
    Walls are vital in the structure, and give security to the host. Wall as part of structure in industrialised Building System (IBS). Walls can be made a plunge two bearing and non-bearing walls. Non-bearing walls are made of delicate parcel boards. Segment board ought to be, areas of strength for light have great Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC). This' exploration will likely make another segment board from squandered material to deliver ecologically protected and less expensive board from the current board. The principal material is coconut shell and paper. Each board is made in various extents to pick the board with best NRC. Commotion impact framework chamber is utilized to test the capacity of sound proof of the new sheets. The perusing of the sound level meter was taken in various good ways from the sound source and changing the level of the sound recurrence and sound power. The outcome showed that the new parcel board which produced using 80% coconut shell, 15% concrete, 5% paper can diminish the clamor better compared to the other sheets. This board has NRC is 21%, 21%, 24%, and 12% for the different sound level tests. This can be an option IBS parcel board.
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    An IoT-based automated gate system using camera for home security and parcel delivery
    The Internet of Things (IoT) has made it possible to set up smart home security and parcel delivery. Therefore, this work proposed an automated gate system using camera for home security and parcel delivery with integrated Internet of Things (IoT). An automated gate system will capture and identify the image of face visitors and delivery riders for admin authentication to open the gate and parcel box. This proposed work is controlled and monitored through mobile apps. The primary purpose and inspiration of this work are to help the delivery rider put the parcel into the parcel box provided if there is no person in the house, and the owner can pick up the parcel without being broken or robbed when she/he comes back home. When the delivery rider presses the button near the gate, the admin will receive the notification "Someone coming,". The admin will click the "okay"button and the system will take a picture using the camera in Blynk App. After the admin verifies that is the delivery rider, the admin will open the box and the delivery rider can access the parcel door box and put the goods inside the box. Another advantage of this work, it also allows familiar people to access our home. The same process with the delivery rider where the visitor needs to press the bell and the admin needs to verify before the visitor can access the single gate. The result indicates that this work is able to monitor and control the gate and parcel door box using an IoT application.
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    A Review on BLDC Motor Application in Electric Vehicle (EV) using Battery, Supercapacitor and Hybrid Energy Storage System: Efficiency and Future Prospects
    ( 2023-04-01)
    Aziz M.A.A.
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    Fahmi M.I.
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    Othman S.M.
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    The automotive industry has rapidly introduced pollution-free vehicles such as Electric Vehicle (EV). The development and improvement of the EV to replace the conventional vehicle become crucial to obtain the customer satisfaction and high technology achievements. The main systems in EV that are improvise to be switch from the conventional engine with a fuel source to an electric type drive system, include the electric motor and the energy/power storage called battery. There are several types of electric motors that suitable for EV and the best solution was Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motor in terms of power, speed, torque and low maintenance. Meanwhile, the fuel source replacement is the electrical energy/power storage such as batteries. The aims were to study the best Energy Storage System (ESS) in EV which leads to introducing Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), but the drawbacks of the system give the opportunity improvement, in replacement using Supercapacitor Energy storage System (SESS) and Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS). SESS is a reliable source, but the stand-alone Supercapacitor also has a minimum operation time. With several adjustments in the energy management control strategy, the discharge rate of energy from a supercapacitor can be minimized to prolong its operation.
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    Parametric design optimization of an ankle rehabilitation robot using SolidWorks
    This paper presents the approach to determine most suitable dimensions and volume of the proposed ankle rehabilitation robot design. This design aim is the robot needs to be portable without compromising the workspace of the proposed robot and it must fulfill all required basic ankle motions. To do this, optimisation was used to generate possible initial dimensions in order to achieve suitable length for the outer frame through minimization of the dimensions. Based on the selected variables and constraints, the result of the optimization shows minimization of the proposed design has been achieved through reduction of the dimension of the outer frame of the robot in which translate the reduction of the weight of the robot.
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    The Characteristic and Properties Lightweight Organic Bricks from Rice Husk
    ( 2023-08-01) ;
    Pin A.Y.S.
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    Nor K.M.
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    Yusoff M.N.
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    Sohaimi N.S.
    In our cutting-edge environment, a lightweight organic brick is an optional revelation item that should be taken into consideration. The organic brick is superior to the traditional brick in terms of additional qualities. During assembly, it can reduce the exemplified energy of regular brick. Utilizing this organic brick could result in greater energy savings from a warm comfort perspective and help to protect the environment because it produces less pollution. The unused rice husks that are piling up in Perlis give rise to this item as a potential solution to the problem. In light of this idea, leftover rice husks can be used to create organic brick. In addition, Malaysia's rapid development would subsequently build the block requests. This fuels the primary objective of researching renewable and environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional brick. Since it is eco-friendly and easily obtainable in Malaysia, rice husk stands out among other optional lightweight options. By baking clay, rice husk, and cement together, lightweight organic brick is produced. The organic sample, which contains up to 80% rice husk, is added and put through an oven drying process so that it can dry entirely before the testing can begin. Because there was more rice husk in the specimen, there were more pores, which enhanced the compressive strength. As a result, the quality of the rice husk increases as more of it is added. Although the organic brick specimen doesn't meet the standard for compressive strength, it does so for low bulk density, which is much lower than the requirement for lightweight materials. It is therefore perfectly reasonable to use it as a light construction material.