Sazali Yaacob, Prof. Dr.: Recent submissions

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    • Stereo Sensors-based Object Segmentation and Location for a Bin Picking Adept SCARA Robot 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Sazali, Yaacob (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2007)
      In this paper we present a stereo vision system for segmentation of partially occluded objects and computation of object grasping point in bin picking environments. The stereo vision system was interfaced with an Adept ...

    • Brain machine interface: classification of mental tasks using short-time PCA and recurrent neural networks 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob; Abd Hamid, Adom; Ramachandran, Nagarajan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2007-11-25)
      Brain machine interface provides a communication channel between the human brain and an external device. Brain interfaces are studied to provide rehabilitation to patients with neurodegenerative diseases; such patients ...

    • Asymmetric ratio and FCM based salient channel selection for human emotion detection using EEG 

      Mohamad Rizon, Mohamed Juhari; Murugappan, M.; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Sazali, Yaacob (World Scientific abd Engineering Academy and Scoiety (WSEAS), 2008)
      Electroencephalogram (EEG) is one of the most reliable physiological signals used for detecting the emotional states of human brain. We propose Asymmetric Ratio (AR) based channel selection for human emotion recognition ...

    • EEG signal classification using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) neural network for brain machine interfaces 

      Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Hamid, Adom (Association for the Advancement of Modelling & Simulation Techniques in Enterprises (A.M.S.E.), 2008)
      The brain uses the neuromuscular channels to communicate and control its external environment, however many disorders can disrupt these channels. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is one such disorder which impairs the neural ...

    • Malaysian vowel recognition based on spectral envelope using bandwidth approach 

      Fadzilah, Siraj; Shahrul Azmi, M. Y.; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2009-05-25)
      Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has made great strides with the development of digital signal processing hardware and software especially using English as the language of choice. In this paper, a new feature extraction ...

    • Recognition of motor imagery of hand movements for a BMI using PCA features 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob; Abd Hamid, Adom; Ramachandran, Nagarajan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2008-12-01)
      Motor imagery is the mental simulation of a motor act that includes preparation for movement and mental operations of motor representations implicitly or explicitly. The ability of an individual to control his EEG through ...

    • PID and adaptive predictive fuzzy logic controller for a micro-satellite 

      Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob; Zuriadah, Mat Zain; Hoh, W. S. K.; Ahmad Sabirin, Arshad (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2008-12-01)
      In this paper a simple Adaptive Predictive Fuzzy Logic Controller is developed for the attitude control of a micro-satellite; its performance is compared with a PID controller. PID controller is the most widely used among ...

    • Functional link PSO neural network based classification of EEG mental task signals 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Hamid, Adom; Nagarajan, Ramachandran (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2008-08-26)
      Classification of EEG mental task signals is a technique in the design of Brain machine interface [BMI]. A BMI can provide a digital channel for communication in the absence of the biological channels and are used to ...

    • Brain machine interface: A comparison between fuzzy and neural classifiers 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Hamid, Adom (ICIC International, 2009)
      Patients with neurodegenerative disease loose all motor movements including impairment of speech, leaving the patients totally locked-in. One possible option for rehabilitation of such patients is through a brain machine ...

    • Appraising human emotions using time frequency analysis based EEG alpha band features 

      M. Murugappan; Ramachandran, Nagarajan; Sazali, Yaacob (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2009-07-25)
      In recent years, assessing human emotions through Electroencephalogram (EEG) is become one of the active research area in Brain Computer Interface (BCI) development. The combination of surface Laplacian filtering, ...

    • Brain machine interface: motor imagery recognition with different signal length representations 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Hamid, Adom; Ramachandran, Nagarajan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2009-03-06)
      This work investigates how signal representations affect the performance of a motor imagery recognition system, specifically we investigate on recognition accuracy and computational time of a brain machine interface designed ...

    • Single trial motor imagery classification for a four state brain machine interface 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Hamid, Adom; Ramachandran, Nagarajan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2009-03-06)
      Motor imagery is the mental simulation of a motor act which can be used to design brain machine interfaces [BMI]. A BMI is a digital communication system, which connects the human brain directly to an external device ...

    • Damage detection in steel plates using discrete cosine transformation techniques and artificial neural network 

      Paulraj, M.P.; Mohd Shukry, Abdul Majid; Sazali, Yaacob; Mohd Hafiz, Fazalul Rahiman; R Pranesh, Krishnan (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2009-10-11)
      In this paper, a simple method for crack identification in steel plates based on the Frame Energy based Discrete Cosine Transformation [DCT] moments is presented. A simple experimental procedure is also proposed to measure ...

    • Neuro-Fuzzy based motor imagery classification for a four class brain machine interface 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Hamid, Adom; Ramachandran, Nagarajan (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2009-10-11)
      Brain Machine Interface (BMI) provides a digital link between the brain and a device such as a computer, robot or wheelchair. This paper presents a BMI design using Neuro-Fuzzy classifiers for controlling a wheelchair using ...

    • Overview of automatic stuttering recognition system 

      Lim, Sin Chee; Ooi, Chia Ai; Sazali, Yaacob (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2009-10-11)
      Stuttering is a speech disorder. The flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongation of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and involuntary silent pauses or blocks in communication. Stuttering is ...

    • Simultaneous localization and map building – a guided tour 

      Low, William; Nagarajan, R.; Sazali, Yaacob (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2009-10-11)
      Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has been one of the active research areas in robotic community for the past decade of years. SLAM addresses the problem of a robot navigating and building a map of an ...

    • Two axis adaptive predictive Fuzzy Logic Controller for a pico-satellite 

      Nagarajan, R.; Paularaj, M.P.; Sazali, Yaacob; Zaridah, Mat Zain; Soh Kay Hoh, Warren; Ahmad Sabirin, Arshad (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2009-10-11)
      In this paper, extensive simulations of Adaptive Predictive Fuzzy Logic Controller (APFLC) has been made to study the performances of the attitude control system for a Pico-satellite. A fuzzy controller is developed based ...

    • Development of Attitude Control System on RCM3400 microcontroller for Nano-satellite applications 

      Muhyi, Yaakop; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Rahman, Mohd Saad; Harihran, M.; Nagarajan, R. (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2009-10-11)
      This paper describes the development of a nano-satellite attitude control system (ACS) which employ a Kalman filter based controller and a simple adaptive predictive fuzzy logic controller (APFLC) for a 1, 2 and 3 axis ...

    • Motorbike engine faults diagnosing system using Entropy and Functional Link Neural Network in wavelet domain 

      Paulraj, M.P.; Sazali, Yaacob; Mohd Zubir, Md Zin (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2009-10-11)
      The sound of working vehicle provides an important clue for engine faults diagnosis. Endless efforts have been put into the research of fault diagnosis based on sound. It offers concrete economic benefits, which can lead ...

    • Brain machine interface based wheelchair control with minimal subject training 

      Hema, Chengalvarayan Radhakrishnamurthy; Paulraj, Murugesapandian; Sazali, Yaacob; Abdul Hamid, Adom; Ramachandran, Nagarajan (Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 2009-10-11)
      Wheelchair control using a Brain Machine Interface based on motor imagery requires adequate subject training. In this paper we propose a new algorithm for a brain machine interface design which is implemented in real-time ...