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    The design of Mechatronics Manipulator for surgical purposes: approach and challenges
    This paper discusses the preliminary study of improving the development of mechatronic manipulator for surgical aided system, i.e. in MIS procedures. Realizing the importance of robotic and computer technology for surgical field in Malaysia, a studyof the application of mechatronic in medical has been set foward. The intended outcon of the study is to develop a surgical assisted system that could increase the quality of surgical service performance. Therefore, the aim to this study is to investigate and develop a kinematics model with all the neccessary details to be used for mechanism analysis and preliminary control system design. The objective is to detemine the optical geometric configuration for the develop model. This information will be used for the detailed mechanical design and manufacture of the physical device. The final
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    Development of a Multi-Fan System (MFS) in a Plant Factory with Artificial Light
    ( 2022-01-01) ; ; ; ; ;
    Akbar M.F.
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    Osman M.K.
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    Setumin S.
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    Idris M.
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    Bin Ramli M.A.
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    Sharifful Mizam N.S.
    A plant factory is a factory that grows plants indoors. These indoor farms could be the key to solve food shortages in the world. Plant factories are operated in indoor spaces under controlled cultivation conditions such as light, temperature and humidity. Then, a multi-fan system (MFS) for single culture beds. The MFS had four fans which were installed on both the front and back sides of culture beds to generate airflow from two opposite horizontal directions by using the Internet of Things (IoT) via the access and connection of smartphone devices. The fans that push the air into the culture bed were air inlets while those that pull the air out of the culture bed were air outlets. The main problem is in plant factories with artificial light, a heat that is usually used to control the environmental parameters and the air velocity is generally lower than the optimum range required for plant growth. Compare to a plant factory without using a multi-fan, it no circulation of air in the container to ensure continuous gas exchange. This reduction in gas exchange can impact calcium uptake by the plants. The gas exchange makes the tip burn. Tip burn can have a significant impact on the salability of a lettuce crop. Based on the limitations that have been highlighted previously, this research has been carried out by using multi-fan and without multi-fan. To get the data that need to be compared. Then, to improve the airflow in a plant factory with artificial light and prevent tip burn occur on the lettuce itself. In a nutshell, this prototype is expected to help plant factories reduce tip burn symptoms on leaf lettuce and the airflow can improve the growth of indoor cultured lettuce.
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    Automotive Mechanical Vehicle Starter
    ( 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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    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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    Develop Portable Blood Analyzer Based on Temperature and Quantity Level
    ( 2020-12-18)
    Farhan Sukemi M.A.
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    Aihsan M.Z.
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    Akhmal S.
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    Saidi S.A.
    This technical paper presents a developing portable blood analyzer for monitoring of human blood sample. Perseverance of blood sample in hospitals is important in order to obtain a great quality of blood and therefore it able to determining the human type of disease. This is a life-threatening early step in most medical applications fields such as diagnosis, treatment and medical research. The proposed system consists of three main parts. In the first part, the use of convenient and handy device to deal with the problem of incorrect temperature value and inadequate quantity of blood sample. Most of previous human hospitality services show a fail to handle and properly in time to take human blood sample for diagnosis in a schedule time frame such as not punctual in taking blood sample from a patient in three different times in one day. The consequences is that these blood sample are not in perfect quality for a correct estimation of the human disease towards a pathology unit. The proposed method is a device that uses infrared temperature system and non-contact blood sample quantity detection. In the second part is by combining those two approaches to single programmable electronic modules that are used to minimize the size of the portable device in the resulting techniques to improve the functionality. The third part is accomplished by using a modern technique to produce an interface to provide the value of human blood sample and shows it on display for monitoring purposes. The programmable coding has been test in several different types of sensors and physical part. The experimental results show that this method able to integrate both requirement of human blood sample perseverance with a contactless method towards a blood tube, providing the output value of quality characteristic in a display and making it well-suited for a convenient practical application system. The experimental results in real time applications shows the effectiveness, reliable and efficiency in the proposed approach which able to almost accurately detect and monitor the human blood sample with the ability to detect different types of people gender and blood type. The proposed coding system can be executed at more precise time scheduling which is better than real life human monitoring system.
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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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    Optimum identification method of sorting Green Household waste
    ( 2016-10-07)
    Mohd Hisam Daud
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    This project is related to design of sorting facility for reducing, reusing, recycling green waste material, and in particular to invent an automatic system to distinguish household waste in order to separate them from the main waste stream. The project focuses on thorough analysis of the properties of green household waste. The method of identification is using capacitive sensor where the characteristic data taken on three different sensor drive frequency. Three types of material have been chosen as a medium of this research, to be separated using the selected method. Based on capacitance characteristics and its ability to penetrate green object, optimum identification method is expected to be recognized in this project. The output capacitance sensor is in analogue value. The results demonstrate that the information from the sensor is enough to recognize the materials that have been selected.
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    Renewable Energy Driven Exhaust Fan for Use in Laboratory via IOT
    ( 2021-01-01) ; ; ; ; ;
    Akbar M.F.
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    Osman M.K.
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    Setumin S.
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    Idris M.
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    Mahendran Gunaseakaran
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    Nor Syamina Sharifful Mizam
    This paper discussed on the hardware product of renewable energy driven exhaust fan for use in laboratory via IOT. Ventilation is generally deployed in buildings for maintaining user's safety and health. This renewable energy driven exhaust fan is the most considered system in improving the energy saving while sustaining user's safety and health. If we can renew and reuse the energy we waste, it would help in some way to the problem of scarcity of energy, which is major threat of present world. Initial capital cost of solar systems is still quite high when it comes to generate power for domestic. By using the concept of wind turbines wind-generated electricity can be used for battery charging and for connection with the power grid. Hence this research proposes a prototype of Renewable Energy Driven Exhaust Fan for use in laboratory via IOT. This research presents a prototype of regenerating power by an exhaust fan. The generated power can be either used directly or can be stored in a battery. This exhaust fan also can be controlled and monitored via IOT. The objectives of this research are, to design and develop an exhaust fan that can be driven by renewable energy, to design and develop an exhaust fan that can be controlled by IoT and to collect data and analyze the power consumptions and power saving. Methods used in this research is to use power from battery to operate the Fan 1. Than this kinetic energy produced by Fan 1 is used to drive Fan 2 and Fan 3 which are now actually a pair of generators with the help of charging circuit to directly recharge the battery which at first used to power up Fan 1. Analysis is then carried out to evaluate the theory, which actually agreed to the initial theory as presented
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    Reka bentuk sistem Elektro-Pneumatik pendekatan perisian simulasi berasaskan animasi
    Penyelidikan ini bertujuan menyelesaikan masalah pembelajaran subjek Reka bentuk Sistem Elektro-Pneumatik dengan menggunakan pendekatan Perisian Simulasi Berasaskan Animasi (ABSC). Masalah utama subjek ini ialah kesukaran pelajar memahami teori pergerakan komponenkomponen dalaman dalam Sistem Elektro-Pneumatik. lni kerana ketiadaan a/at bantu mengajar yang dapat menunjukkan pergerakan dalaman tersebut. Dalam penyelidikan, perisian simulasi telah dibangunkan secara merujuk segala teori-teori pembelajaran. Perisian simulasi yang dibangunkan telah mengeksploitasi e/emen animasi dan multimedia interaktif telah memaparkan dengan jelas segala pergerakan komponen~komponen tersebut, malah ciri interaktif perisian membolehkan pelajar berinteraksi dengan berkesan. Pencapaian pelajar secara ujian pra dan pasca telah dibandingkan bagi kaedah pembelajaran konvensional dengan kaedah ABSC. Keputusan daripada Ana/isis Varian (ANOVA) melalui Ujian-t menunjukkan terdapat perbezaan yang nyata dalam peningkatan skor setelah pelajar menggunakan perisian. Sebagai kesimpulan, penggunaan ABSC dapat membantu pelajar memahami konsep yang betul bagi Reka bentuk Sistem Elektro~Pneumatik serta menguasai Pembe/ajaran Berasaskan Masa/ah (PBL), seterusnya memperoleh pencapaian akademik yang lebih baik.
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