School of Mechatronic Engineering (Theses): Recent submissions
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Two phase medium identification using ultrasonic tomography technique
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2013)The use of tomographic techniques has been widely used in pipeline and oil industry. These techniques have potential applications for flow visualization and measurement in producing wells. One of the important processes ... -
Classification of stainless steel and mild steel using vibration technique
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2011)The production of material in industry must attain some standard such as the standard required by American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International. The requirement of the material standard is important in ... -
A novel hybrid fuzzy PID controller for attitude stabilization of a remote operated quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012)This thesis presents a new attitude control development to be implemented in the flight control board (FCB) of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A simple structure of quadrotor was developed to test the attitude ... -
An energy absorption characterization of improved circular thin-walled tubes under dynamic loading
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2013)Thin-walled tube is one of the energy absorber devices designed to dissipate energy and increase the efficiency of a crashworthiness structure in an impact event. During an accident, thin-walled tube dissipates the kinetic ... -
Screening system for heart valve disease
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2011)The first method applied by physician and cardiologists to detect heart disease is heart sound auscultation. However the skill of auscultation takes many years to acquire. Acknowledging the importance of heart sound ... -
Design of a screening system for acute leukemia cells based on bone marrow samples
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012)The capability to screen for leukemia based on bone marrow samples could facilitate the doctors in confirming the occurrence of leukemia from blood test. However, the images of the bone marrow slide have several drawbacks ... -
Classification of interior noise comfort level of Proton model cars using artificial neural network
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012)Car interior noise comfort level classification is one of the most promising sub-fields in automotive research. Car interior noise comfort indicator is developed to help the drivers to keep track of the noise comfort level ... -
Human-machine interaction by tracking hand movements
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2013)The vision-based hand tracking and gesture recognition is an extremely challenging problem due to the intricate nature of hand gestures this is a reason that available computer vision algorithms are computationally complex. ... -
Classification of eeg based task on colour visualization and colour imagery
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012)Electroencephalography (EEG) is a measure of brain waves used to monitor the state of health of the patients in medical applications and other research areas. EEG signals are also used to develop Brain Machine Interface ... -
Design and development of an impeller wind turbine
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2013)In the area of wind turbine design, there is still scope of improvement. Today, wind energy - mainly by wind screw turbines - produces less than 1.0% of the total energy used worldwide. Practically, the efficiency of the ... -
Development of fuzzy pid cascade control system for differential-drive wheeled mobile robot
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012)This study focuses on the control systems implementations of an intelligent autonomous mobile robot called Mobile Autonomous Robot (MAR). The robot is targeted for indoor usage, assume the role of a guide or security ... -
Development of facial emotion recognition system using a modified particle swarm optimization technique
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012)Automatic facial emotion recognition has become a very active research area in recent years. The reason for this interest in the subject is because the traditional means of interacting with computers, namely keyboard, ... -
Design of a portable continuous systolic blood pressure monitoring kit with built-in low and high blood pressure early warnings
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2009)About one in three adults in the United States have high blood pressure but high blood pressure itself usually has no symptoms. The prevalence of hypertension in Malaysians aged 30 years and above was 42.6%. The majority ... -
Implementation of feature extraction and classification for speech dysfluencies
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2011)Speech is prone to disruption of involuntary dysfluent events especially repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables and words which lead to dysfluency in communication. Traditionally, speech language pathologists ... -
Design & development of microorganism activity monitoring transducer using ultrasonic sensors
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2011)This thesis presents the design and development of a microorganism activity monitoring transducer by using ultrasonic sensors as the main part in detecting the signal of microorganism activity. Three types of samples ... -
Biceps brachii surface EMG classification using neural networks
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2009)This thesis presents an approach of MATLAB-based system for clinical rehabilitation monitoring application. The main rationale for the development of such a system is that the pattern of the EMG signals elicited may ... -
Design of a portable continuous systolic blood pressure monitoring kit with built-in low and high blood pressure early warnings
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisSchool of Mechatronic Engineering, 2009)About one in three adults in the United States have high blood pressure but high blood pressure itself usually has no symptoms. The prevalence of hypertension in Malaysians aged 30 years and above was 42.6%. The majority ... -
Feature extraction and classification of malay speech vowels
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisSchool of Mechatronic Engineering, 2010)In human language, a phoneme is the smallest structural unit that distinguishes meaning. Normally, language like English commonly combines phonemes to form a word. In many languages, the Consonant-Vowel (CV) units have ... -
Experimental and numerical investigations of the performance of three concentric pipes heat exchanger
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisSchool of Mechatronic Engineering, 2010)The three concentric pipes heat exchanger is a slightly modified version of double tube heat exchanger. Although the heat exchanger designs have shown extensive progress, they are generally limited to few of many possible ... -
Effect of heat treatment on hardness and wear properties of an aluminum alloy of motorcycle piston
(Universiti Malaysia PerlisSchool of Mechatronics Engineering, 2010)The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of heat treatment on the microstructure, hardness and wear of aluminum alloys piston and with the aim to improve the mechanical properties by using heat treatment ...