{"title":"Development CT-based three-dimensional complex skull model for Finite element analysis","authors":"Y. Choy, Y. Lim, Xin Wang, K. Chan","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408383","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development of a three-dimensional (3D) complex skull model by using Finite element analysis (FEA) method from CT scans DICOM images of a real patient and improves the finite element model to perform a comprehensive simulation for future biomedical applications. FEA is a powerful tool to study the reproduction of a particular loading on anatomical structures with various parameters. Many studies used FEA as a solution for failure prediction with variable of unknown stresses. The effects of external impact conditions are demonstrated by stress analysis. The raw images collected from CT scan were rendered into 3D model. The surface model was repaired by Autodesk 3ds Max and converted into editable surface model for the ease of solid bodies conversion. The surface model was further converted into solid model by using Autodesk Inventor. The meshing technique used is tetrahedral shape function which consists of solid 10 nodes and 92 elements. The element size is set at finer value of less than 0.005 mm. The comparison of both CT scans generated 3D model and computed-based 3D model are to be done in the future study.","PeriodicalId":282263,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124374358","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":"Building automation through web interface","authors":"Cheah Jun Hong, Lew Kim Luong, See Yuen Chark","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408423","url":null,"abstract":"It is quite common to forget switching off appliances which are not in use and we may not be within the vicinity to do so when we realize it. With building automation and remote control, appliances can be switched on or off without physically switching them on by their switches. Hence, an embedded web server is developed to achieve remote control of switches and autonomous control with predefined rules. A web server is used instead of conventional approach where the controls of switches are performed through the web browser via local area network or the internet. The embedded server is developed from a Microchip PIC24FJ256GB106 16-bit microcontroller together with an Ethernet controller ENC28J60 using TCP/IP stack provided by Microchip and utilizes USB flash drive as storage medium. This paper discusses the testing of components that make up the system, together with problems encountered and methods to solve the problems. Performance of the embedded webserver is obtained and documented. Optimizations were performed to increase the system's performance. The system is designed to use JavaScript to emulate HTTP digest authentication by using a one way hash function to encode the salted username and password for user authentication purpose. Power control modules were designed and developed to control AC power devices. AC light bulbs were used to demonstrate the capability of the system to operate in AC environment.","PeriodicalId":282263,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129110007","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}
Y. Ma, M. Paulraj, S. Yaacob, A. Shahriman, S. K. Nataraj
{"title":"Speaker accent recognition through statistical descriptors of Mel-bands spectral energy and neural network model","authors":"Y. Ma, M. Paulraj, S. Yaacob, A. Shahriman, S. K. Nataraj","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408416","url":null,"abstract":"Accent recognition is one of the most important topics in automatic speaker and speaker-independent speech recognition (SI-ASR) systems in recent years. The growth of voice-controlled technologies has becoming part of our daily life, nevertheless variability in speech makes these spoken language technologies relatively difficult. One of the profound variability is accent. By classifying accent types, different models could be developed to handle SI-ASR. In this paper, we classified three accents in English language recorded from three main ethnicities in Malaysia namely Malay, Chinese and Indian using artificial neural network model. All experiments were performed in speaker-independent and three most accent-sensitive words-independent modes. Mel-bands spectral energy was extracted from eighteen bands taking the statistical values of each speech sample i.e. mean, standard deviation, kurtosis and the ratio of standard deviation to kurtosis to characterize the spectral energy distribution. The system was evaluated using independent test dataset, partial-independent test dataset and training dataset. The best three-class accuracy rate of 99.01% with independent test dataset was obtained. The overall accuracy rate for several trials was averaged to 96.79% with the average learning time at 49 epochs.","PeriodicalId":282263,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128397815","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 stem weight maximization scheme for RNA pseudoknot prediction","authors":"Y. L. Leo, Y. K. Goh","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408398","url":null,"abstract":"An RNA pseudoknot prediction algorithm based on maximization of stem weight is proposed. The algorithm involves three stem searching function that is section search, cross search and knot search which search for base pairing in different regions. Section search identifies simple RNA stems and loops without crossing. Cross search will search for inner base pairing without crossing of stems found in section search. Finally, knot search which search for potential pseudoknot structures by searching for base pairing between hairpin loop and other unpaired regions. The resulting secondary structure is represented in dot-bracket representation and could be visualized with VARNA [1]. A total of 110 RNA secondary structures downloaded from FRABASE [2] are compared with structures generated by the proposed algorithm. Structure comparison is carried out by calculating the specificity (SP) and sensitivity (SN) scores between the predicted structure to the experimentally determined structure from FRABASE.","PeriodicalId":282263,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125622000","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":"Load parameter optimization of SRBC circuit using fixed PWM signals","authors":"N. Ahmad, N. Yahaya","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408353","url":null,"abstract":"This work is about the study and evaluation of the output parameters on SRBC circuit based on the optimized values of inductor, L, capacitor, C and resistor, R. The development of low power converters in future must have the capability to operate in megahertz switching frequency. This project will be based on simulation circuit using PSPICE software. The simulation will involve the study of the data sheet, circuit operation and the fundamental of SRBC circuit. Then, the results will be evaluated in terms of its output voltage and current. In addition, the voltage and current ripples which contribute to losses are also taken into consideration. It is found that the optimized parameter values for CCM are L = 15 μH, C = 0.625 μF and R = 3.5 Ω and whilst for DCM, L = 1 μH, C = 9.375 μF and R = 4 Ω.","PeriodicalId":282263,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121273649","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":"Temperature effects on the performance of dense array concentrator photovoltaic system","authors":"F. Siaw, K. Chong","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408385","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of dense-array concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) is studied in detail by considering temperature distribution pattern generated from a water-cooled copper cooling block. Using water flow rate 0.400 kg/s and inlet temperature 30°C, the temperature distribution is simulated and the temperature values are used as a means to predict each CPV cell's operating temperature. It is observed that a solar cell located at the central region of the array experiences the highest temperature of 58.3°C, while CPV cells located furthest to the center are operating at 7°C lower than the center region cell. For comparison purpose, we also investigated the effect of uniform temperature distribution for all the cells at 55.2°C. It is found that the output power varies by less than 1W compared to the case of non-uniform temperature distribution where each solar cell is experiencing a different temperature value. On the other hand, the output power increases to 462.70 W when the array temperature is reduced to 40°C, while the output power dropped to 418.60 W when the array temperature is increased to 100°C. Through better understanding of temperature effects to dense array CPV performance, a suitable cooling system can be designed to minimize power loss.","PeriodicalId":282263,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115575131","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 novel PAPR reduction in MC-CDMA system using Single carrier FDMA technique","authors":"M. F. Ghanim, M. Abdullah","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408381","url":null,"abstract":"According to the fact that Multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems receive a great attention due to their achieving high data rates in wireless telecommunications, the researchers try to improve the performance of these systems. This paper presents a novel MC-CDMA which has low peak to average power ratio (PAPR). The system is designed by combining MC-CDMA with the Single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) because the later has low PAPR. The system is simulated to broadcast on Rayleigh fading and AWGN channel, the main performances of this system are evaluated and the bit error rate of the system is showed at different values of signal to noise ratio. Finally, the reduction in PAPR is showed and compared to the original MC-CDMA.","PeriodicalId":282263,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126664265","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":"Power system oscillations damping by optimal coordinated design between multiple damping stabilizers based on STATCOM device","authors":"A. Hussain, F. Malek, M. Humayun, M. Rashid","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408354","url":null,"abstract":"The main function of a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) device is to be applied for dynamic compensation of the power system. Supplementary damping stabilizer can be added to the internal AC or DC voltage control channel of the STATCOM inputs to implement the task of power oscillation damping controller (POD). This study presents the simultaneously coordinated design of the multiple damping controllers between PSS and STATCOM-based POD or between different multiple STATCOM-based POD controllers without conventional PSS in a single-machine infinite-bus power system. The coordinated design is formulated as an optimization problem, which is solved by a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to search for optimum stabilizer's parameter settings that optimize a given eigenvalue based objective function. The simulation results reveals that the coordinated designing of the multiple damping controllers provide satisfactory performance in terms of an increasing the damping rate and decrease the settling time in comparison to the individual damping controllers.","PeriodicalId":282263,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124129851","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":"Design and development of an emotional stress indicator (ESI) kit","authors":"A. Abdullah, U. H. Hassan","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408414","url":null,"abstract":"Emotional Stress Indicator (ESI) kit is a wearable sensor device that used to measure the human stress level. Many people out there do not aware about their level of stress that will give a big impact in their life. So this study is aimed to design and develop an Emotional Stress Indicator (ESI) kit which can display stress level among people. This ESI kit is constructed based on human skin resistance which is changed upon condition. Human skin offers some resistance to current and voltage. The skin resistance changes with the emotional state of the body. From galvanic skin response theory, resistance varies inversely proportional to the stress. Stress level is high when the resistance of skin is less. In the relaxed state, the resistance offered by the skin is as high as 2 mega-ohms or more, which reduces to 500 kilo-ohms or less when the emotional stress is too high. The reduction in skin resistance is caused by an increased blood flow and permeability followed by the physiological changes during high stress. This increases the electrical conductivity of the skin.","PeriodicalId":282263,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121713343","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 study of arc fault current in low voltage switchboard","authors":"Chai Sim Por, K. L. Choo, L. Jian","doi":"10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STUDENT.2012.6408364","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study of the behavior and characteristic of the arc fault in low voltage (LV) switchboard. The causes and effects of the occurrence of arc fault in the low voltage switchboard are determined and an arc current sensor is designed to isolate the power supply from the LV switchboard once it detects an arc current. By monitoring the supply current waveform with the arc current sensor, the possibility of the occurrence arc fault can be reduced to minimum through an early detection on the fault by the mean of detecting the arc current. The simulation and experimental results show that the arc current sensor is able to detect an arc current waveform and send a signal to trip the circuit breaker and avoid the possibility of arc flash.","PeriodicalId":282263,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technology (STUDENT)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123207887","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}