{"title":"Bee Colony Algorithm application for manipulating metalcastings in SME","authors":"R. Wadhwa","doi":"10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162131","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an application of Bee Colony Algorithm (BCA) for template matching that is used for manufacturing automation in a metalcasting foundry. The paper presents a novel application of BCA for robot pick-and-place operation. To enable robust manipulation by a six axis industrial robot manipulator, it is important that the correct orientation of the parts is input to the manipulator. This orientation is input by a vision system which is then used to orient the robot gripper to correctly handle the part. BCA is used for the purpose of robust template matching by the vision system. The BCA algorithm is inspired by the collective behavior of honey bees to find food sources around the hive, which is one of the Swarm Intelligence (SI) techniques. The Normalized cross-correlation (NCC) function is used as an objection function in the BCA optimization procedure. The results of the BCA computer simulations are shown for different number of food sources.","PeriodicalId":132155,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)","volume":"38 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132241777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Offline handwritten character recognition using neural network","authors":"Anshul Gupta, M. Srivastava, C. Mahanta","doi":"10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162113","url":null,"abstract":"Character Recognition (CR) has been an active area of research in the past and due to its diverse applications it continues to be a challenging research topic. In this paper, we focus especially on offline recognition of handwritten English words by first detecting individual characters. The main approaches for offline handwritten word recognition can be divided into two classes, holistic and segmentation based. The holistic approach is used in recognition of limited size vocabulary where global features extracted from the entire word image are considered. As the size of the vocabulary increases, the complexity of holistic based algorithms also increases and correspondingly the recognition rate decreases rapidly. The segmentation based strategies, on the other hand, employ bottom-up approaches, starting from the stroke or the character level and going towards producing a meaningful word. After segmentation the problem gets reduced to the recognition of simple isolated characters or strokes and hence the system can be employed for unlimited vocabulary. We here adopt segmentation based handwritten word recognition where neural networks are used to identify individual characters. A number of techniques are available for feature extraction and training of CR systems in the literature, each with its own superiorities and weaknesses.We explore these techniques to design an optimal offline handwritten English word recognition system based on character recognition. Post processing technique that uses lexicon is employed to improve the overall recognition accuracy.","PeriodicalId":132155,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134467207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance analysis of MSK and MSK-OFDM in Nakagami-m channel","authors":"C. Mohd Din, R. Mohamad, W. Mansor","doi":"10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162195","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the BER performance of MSK-OFDM in Nakagami-m channel model by considering ideal MSK. The performance comparison between MSK and MSK-OFDM has been evaluated. FFT size, n of 128, 256 and 512 sub-carriers was used and zero padded was chosen instead of cyclic prefix as a guard band at the shape factor m = 1 based on WiMAX specifications. The simulation results have shown that using n=128, the MSK-OFDM provided the best performance compared to other FFT points at high value of EbNo but n=256 and 512 give better BER performance at low EbNo. Zero padded could not resolve multipath effect efficiently which made BER to be saturated when EbNo was above 15 dB.","PeriodicalId":132155,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117051563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PSO ingrained Artificial Bee Colony algorithm for solving continuous optimization problems","authors":"T. Sharma, M. Pant, Tushar Bhardwaj","doi":"10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162114","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is one approach that has been used to find an optimal solution in numerical optimization problems. This algorithm is inspired by the foraging behavior of honey bees when seeking a quality food source. ABC can sometimes trap into local optimum and also slow to converge. In ABC, the employed bees and onlooker bees carry out exploration and exploitation use the same equation. Obviously, the performance of ABC greatly depends on single equation. To enrich the searching behavior and to avoid being trapped into local optimum, PSO is incorporated into the ABC. In order to improve the algorithm performance, we present a modified method for solution update of the employed as well as onlooker bees in this paper. The proposed variants are termed as EABC-PSO and OABC-PSO. To show the performance of our proposed variants, experiments are carried out on a set of well-known benchmark problems. Simulation results and comparisons with the standard ABC and PSO show that the proposed variants can effectively enhance the searching efficiency and greatly improve the searching quality.","PeriodicalId":132155,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115926502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An analysis of EEG signal generated from grasping and writing","authors":"C. Fadzal, W. Mansor, L. Khuan","doi":"10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162192","url":null,"abstract":"Electroencephalogram consists of hand movement information that can be extracted using suitable digital signal processing techniques. In this study, the EEG signals generated from hand grasping and writing were recorded from 4 channels; C3, C4, P3 and P4 and filtered using band pass filter with frequency range of 8 Hz to 30 Hz. The signal was then analysed using Fast Fourier Transform. Analysis of EEG signals showed that both hand grasping and writing produced signals with beta frequency.","PeriodicalId":132155,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116239064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workplace built environment: Underpinning the incentive structure for K-workers in the public sector","authors":"S. K. A. Omar, Rugayah Hashim","doi":"10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162133","url":null,"abstract":"The paper is not about the human responses and interactions with the natural system, which is what biophilia is all about; but on the psychological attachments of his built environment of the workplace. The super-ordinate goals, in which stakeholders win, would be achievable if people are not taken for granted, but recognized as sovereign, living in sovereign state. By the same token, reinventing a governing concept to overlap existing workable culture is a waste of resources. Unfortunately, today, the market forces, which aspires to enhance state-business collaboration has instead, re-enforced an alarming growth of elitist individuals among the decision-makers. There exists a danger of infiltration by monopolistic corporate bodies represented by the business élites masquerading as interest groups or by the power élites propagating their own ideology. It would be an economic catastrophe if those running the government support these minorities.","PeriodicalId":132155,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124258621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 0.5 V quasi-floating-gate (QFG) inverter-based class-AB gain-bandwidth independent amplifier","authors":"A. Suadet, V. Kasemsuwan","doi":"10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162139","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a 0.5 V QFG inverter-based class-AB gain-bandwidth independent amplifier. The circuit employs positive feedback to enhance the input impedance, and feed-forward technique to suppress the common-mode gain. The circuit is designed using 0.18 µm CMOS technology under 0.5 V supply. The simulation results show nearly constant bandwidth for various gain, rail-to-rail input/output swing, suppressed common-mode response, and good linearity. The power dissipation is 275 µW.","PeriodicalId":132155,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126456410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ali Wagdy Mohamed, Hegazy Zaher Sabry, Adel Farhat
{"title":"Advanced Differential Evolution algorithm for global numerical optimizatiom","authors":"Ali Wagdy Mohamed, Hegazy Zaher Sabry, Adel Farhat","doi":"10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162123","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an advanced differential evolution (ADE) algorithm for solving global unconstrained optimization problems. In the new algorithm, a new directed mutation rule is introduced based on the weighted difference vector between the best and the worst individuals at a particular generation. The mutation rule is combined with the basic mutation strategy through a linear decreasing probability rule. This modification is shown to enhance the local search ability of the basic DE and to increase the convergence rate. Two new scaling factors are introduced as uniform random variables to improve the diversity of the population and to bias the search direction. Additionally, a dynamic non-linear increased crossover probability scheme is utilized to balance the global exploration and local exploitation. Furthermore, a random mutation scheme and a modified Breeder Genetic Algorithm (BGA) mutation scheme are merged to avoid stagnation and/or premature convergence. Numerical experiments and comparisons on a set of well-known high dimensional benchmark functions indicate that the improved algorithm outperforms and is superior to other existing algorithms in terms of final solution quality, success rate, convergence rate, and robustness.","PeriodicalId":132155,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126026700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deployment of MICAz mote for Wireless Sensor Network applications","authors":"N. A. Ali, M. Drieberg, P. Sebastian","doi":"10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162150","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a new technology that enables remote monitoring and data gathering to be realized in many applications such as traffic control, health monitoring, disaster management and many others. WSN is built by connecting a group of nodes together to perform the required tasks. These nodes cooperate and automatically create a network among themselves. One of the most common wireless sensor node, also commonly known as mote, used is the MICAz mote. MICAz is easy to implement and can be used to build WSN for various applications. This paper demonstrates the deployment of MICAz motes using a test case of soil moisture sensor for environmental monitoring applications. A detailed description of hardware and software requirements, sensor calibrations, mote firmware, testing, debugging and verifications is given. This will enable researchers and engineers to quickly obtain a working knowledge in the implementation of various WSN applications.","PeriodicalId":132155,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128727672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. K. Yeo, D. Yap, T. H. Oh, D. P. Andito, Swee Leong Kok, Y. Ho, M. K. Suaidi
{"title":"Grayscale medical image compression using feedforward neural networks","authors":"W. K. Yeo, D. Yap, T. H. Oh, D. P. Andito, Swee Leong Kok, Y. Ho, M. K. Suaidi","doi":"10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAIE.2011.6162211","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, feedforward neural network trained with the backpropagation algorithm is proposed to compress grayscale medical images. In this new method, a three hidden layer feedforward network (FFN) is applied directly as the main compression algorithm to compress an MRI image. After training with sufficient sample images, the compression process will be carried out on the target image. The coupling weights and activation values of each neuron in the hidden layer will be stored after training. Compression is then achieved by using smaller number of hidden neurons as compare to the number of image pixels due to lesser information being stored. Experimental results show that the FFN is able to achieve comparable compression performance to popular existing medical image compression schemes such as JPEG2000 and JPEG-LS.","PeriodicalId":132155,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116411575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}