2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)最新文献

{"title":"CdTe grid-connected photovoltaic system at energy commission Malaysia: Performance and sustainability issues","authors":"A. Junid, M. Hamdan, Shazrizal Bakar","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089347","url":null,"abstract":"Commissioned in November 2009, Malaysia's Energy Commission headquarters utilizes a 71.4kWp rated grid-connected Cadmium-Telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic system which meets approximately 10% of the building's average electrical power demand. As of June 2011, the photovoltaic panel performance degradation rate is about 3.4% over 1.67 years, i.e. 2% per annum. The system's economic sustainability may be represented by an estimated payback period of 21 years at an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 2–4%. Once a higher feed-in tariff supported by the Renewable Energy Act 2010 takes effect, IRR will increase and payback time will fall. Environmental sustainability is supported by the panel manufacturer's written policy that it will collect and recycle panels free of charge.","PeriodicalId":247351,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"25 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":"130177877","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":"Coanda Effect Test Bench (CoETB) — Design enhancement of the CoandaJLT craft","authors":"J. Ping, ChingSeong Tan, Vincent Ong Teng Tat","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089319","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the improved design of a Coanda Effect Test Bench (CoETB) and its experimental data. The CoETB is primarily setup to investigate the authors' hypothesis that a steerable Coanda effect can be used for flight directional control. The design is currently based on the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (U.A.V) manufactured by GFS Projects Limited or known as the GFS-UAV. The CoETB experiment results showed variation of lift resulted by varying the Coanda curve profile angle. The authors presents the works in setting up the CoETB and its experimental results is discussed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":247351,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"236 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":"131701350","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":"Highly optimized OpenCV based cell phone","authors":"S. Sankaraiah, R. Deepthi","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089323","url":null,"abstract":"The new advancement in technology made cell phone as a smart phone with highly computing capabilities and low processing power. Currently, achieving real-time image processing routines such as convolution, edge detection, thresholding and some of complex media applications is a challenging task with the smart phone, because of limited memory and power constraints. An open software framework, Symbian OS is used in cell devices to provide a good starting point for developing the multitasking kernel, integrated with communication protocols, data management and graphical user interface for reducing the total development time. To resolve the problems faced by image processing applications in cell phones, new application environment is developed. This environment provides the resources available in the operating system which runs on the hardware with complex image processing libraries. These papers presents the capturing of an image from the printed media, applies to image processing algorithms to scaling and translation of the image, wipe out the noise, background subtraction, image rotation and detect edges. The developed software chops the comics strip along border into individual units, store on the permanent memory and and display on the handset. Implementation of image processing algorithm using Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCv), with Visual C++ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and application Graphical User Interface is designed using Qt. Images are pre-processed with several image processing techniques, such as, RGB to Grey scale conversion, smoothening using Gaussian Filter, Histogram equalization, Detect Border (cumulative sum) and Set Region of Interest (ROI) crop. This developed software integrated in cells by the cross compilation of Qt and the OpenCV software for an Operating system. The result utilized the CANNY method in finding edges of the image using OpenCV. The integrated approach succeeded in cell phone by detecting the edges, chopping the images to required format of individual units, then stored it using OpenCV and finally displayed on a cell phone without any loss of image information. The impacts of memory latency, synchronization and the data management overhead are also studied and presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":247351,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"45 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":"128274865","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 comparison of PI and Fuzzy Logic Controller of a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG)","authors":"Abdullah Sobri bin Nik Mu'tasim, I. Elamvazuthi","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089349","url":null,"abstract":"Heat recovery steam generator or HRSG is one of the big equipment that is productively being used these days to recover the heat and to produce it into steam which can be used in many applications. However, it is known that HRSG is a complex system with highly nonlinear characteristics and using conventional controller to control the system has brought a lot of drawbacks. Hence, to overcome these drawbacks, Fuzzy Logic Controller is employed to control the HRSG complex system. This paper discusses the design of a Fuzzy Logic Controller with three different membership functions which are 5, 7, and 9 that were used as pressure controller to control the input to HRSG based on the steam demand. The performances of the fuzzy logic controller were then compared with the classical PI controller.","PeriodicalId":247351,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","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":"126782084","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":"Intelligent traffic management system","authors":"Prithvinath Manikonda, Anil Kumar Yerrapragada, Sai Sasank Annasamudram","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089337","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an intelligent traffic management system using RFID technology. The system is capable of providing practically important traffic data which would aid in reducing the travel time for the users. Also, it can be used for other purposes like tracing of stolen cars, vehicles that evade traffic signals/tickets, toll collection or vehicle taxes etc. The system consists of a passive tag, an RFID reader, a microcontroller, a GPRS module, a high-speed server with a database system and a user module. Using RFID technology, this system collects the required data and calculates average speed of vehicles on each road of a city under consideration. It then transmits the acquired data i.e., average speed calculated at various junctions to the central computation server which calculates the time taken by a vehicle to travel in a particular road. Through Dijkstra's algorithm, the central server computes the fastest route to all the nodes (junctions) considering each node as the initial point in the city. Therefore, the system creates a map of shortest time paths of the whole city. This data is accessed by users through an interface module placed in their vehicles.","PeriodicalId":247351,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"322 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120892310","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":"The Mitsubishi MelfaRxm middleware and application: A case study of RV-2AJ robot","authors":"Md Fadil Md Esa, H. Ibrahim, N. Mustaffa, Hairuddin Abd. Majid","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089341","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of this paper is reviewing the MelfaRxm middleware that was provided by Mitsubishi for their robot series. MelfaRxm provides the communication abstraction for software control development. Based on Windows platform and high level language, it can produce the real-time and offline programming for control robot. This middleware also supports for developing control multiple robots in one time. Furthermore, the experiment of the robot system has been developed to verify the functional of the middleware. It contains two sections of the interface. First is the control robot interface which presents the function at the robot control unit. Second is the operational interface which presents the manipulator control. Mitsubishi RV-2AJ robot has been chosen as a study case. Finally future work and conclusion will be elaborated.","PeriodicalId":247351,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"5 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":"131055936","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":"Mental tasks classifications using S-transform for BCI applications","authors":"V. Vijean, M. Hariharan, A. Saidatul, S. Yaacob","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089327","url":null,"abstract":"The classification of different types of mental tasks is an active area of research that seems to be ever expanding. This field is gaining interest from researchers all over the world. This study is intended to utilize the Stockwell transform (ST) to investigate the classification accuracy of five different types of mental tasks. A well known electroencephalogram (EEG) database (Keirn and Aunon database) has been used in this study. Two subjects from the database were considered for the study. k-means nearest neighborhood (k-NN) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) based classifiers were used to perform a pair-wise classification of the 10 combinations of mental tasks. Two different discriminant functions such as linear and quadratic were used in LDA classifier and their effects on the classification performance are presented. The effect of different ‘k’ values (1 to 10) was also studied in kNN algorithm. Conventional and k-fold cross validation methods were used to investigate the reliability of the classification results of the classifiers. The experimental results show that the proposed method gives promising pair-wise classification accuracy from 78.80% to 100%.","PeriodicalId":247351,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"149 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":"115022228","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":"Cloud enabled spam filtering services: Challenges and opportunities","authors":"Matthew Tan Beow Aun, B. Goi, Victor Tan Hock Kim","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089326","url":null,"abstract":"The latest trend and technology buzzword in the IT industry is cloud computing. By leveraging on cloud computing's characteristics such as resilience, fault tolerance and high availability, a new generation of cloud based security solutions has emerged. This paper specifically looks at the notion of merging spam filtering with cloud computing and is one of the earliest studies done in this area. Following a discussion of spam filtering techniques and cloud computing descriptions, we look at the potential benefits and challenges for a cloud based spam filter. As an initial experiment, an existing server based spam filtering toolkit is deployed into a commercial cloud computing environment. The results show some drawbacks related to scalability. To address this shortcoming a new model for a scalable cloud spam analysis framework is proposed.","PeriodicalId":247351,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","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":"114420939","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":"Post-processing of gated images by using seed growing fusion approach","authors":"ZhiHong Lee, YekHong Chua, ChingSeong Tan, Xin Wang, C. Teoh, G. Seet, A. Sluzek","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089320","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces an image fusion technique on a gated image. Gated imaging is a powerful technique to capture images in turbid condition. By controlling the time delay of the shutter to capture the returning light, we can obtain the image at different depth. Modular transfer function (MTF) is used to evaluate the quality of the gated images. Images with useful information (clear and sharp objects) are gathered. Then, the images are segmented into squares. Every segment of every image is analyzed using MTF. The segment with the best contrast is selected to be used in the final image. The best of each segment is gathered and are used to reconstruct a new image with most of the useful information preserved in them. Then, post-processing is done on the constructed gated image for a seamless image fusion. Seeded region growing is one of the image segmentation techniques. This technique is utilized to look for the region with the same feature and segment the images into regions. The constructed gated image provides an image with monotonous coloration. Therefore, seeded region growing technique easily identifies the borders where there is abrupt change in color feature. The segment edge is one of these borders. An algorithm is used to check for the edges of the segment. Then, the segment edges are chosen for further processing. Gaussian filter is applied to the rough edge of the segment with obvious contrast. Gaussian filter is useful to blur images so that the color histogram will show a smooth color distribution. After the filter is applied, the rough edges will appear smooth and the objective of seamless image fusion is achieved. The final image has the useful information preserved and the borders of the segment are not obvious.","PeriodicalId":247351,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"9 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":"133778649","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":"Development of monocular vision system for depth estimation in mobile robot — Robot soccer","authors":"M. Wahab, N. Sivadev, K. Sundaraj","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2011.6089321","url":null,"abstract":"Vision system could enhance the mobile robot applications and features. However, the vision system could also improve the overall system of mobile robot so as to contain higher complexity with the purpose to be reliable, effective, robust and fast enough to achieve their goals. This paper will present a simple yet reliable monocular vision system in the mobile robot to increase their capabilities in depth estimation. By comparing few methods for circle detection such as Hough Transform (HT), Fast-Finding-and-Fitting (FFF) and background subtraction algorithm, the object of interest can be detected thus diameter will be calculated and finally estimated depth is obtained. This paper also will show the trick on how to solve the depth estimation if the object being too close to the camera. The relationship between distance and diameter is calculated by formula that is derived from calibration data.","PeriodicalId":247351,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"8 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":"125468322","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}