{"title":"Electromygraphy (EMG) signal based hand gesture recognition using artificial neural network (ANN)","authors":"M. R. Ahsan, M. Ibrahimy, Othman Omran Khalifa","doi":"10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937135","url":null,"abstract":"Electromyography (EMG) signal is a measure of muscles' electrical activity and usually represented as a function of time, defined in terms of amplitude, frequency and phase. This biosignal can be employed in various applications including diagnoses of neuromuscular diseases, controlling assistive devices like prosthetic/orthotic devices, controlling machines, robots, computer etc. EMG signal based reliable and efficient hand gesture identification can help to develop good human computer interface which in turn will increase the quality of life of the disabled or aged people. The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of detecting different predefined hand gestures (left, right, up and down) using artificial neural network (ANN). ANNs are particularly useful for complex pattern recognition and classification tasks. The capability of learning from examples, the ability to reproduce arbitrary non-linear functions of input, and the highly parallel and regular structure of ANNs make them especially suitable for pattern recognition tasks. The EMG pattern signatures are extracted from the signals for each movement and then ANN utilized to classify the EMG signals based on features. A back-propagation (BP) network with Levenberg-Marquardt training algorithm has been used for the detection of gesture. The conventional and most effective time and time-frequency based features (namely MAV, RMS, VAR, SD, ZC, SSC and WL) have been chosen to train the neural network.","PeriodicalId":376337,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132753015","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":"Vibration based energy harvesting using piezoelectric material","authors":"M. Fakhzan, A. Muthalif","doi":"10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937182","url":null,"abstract":"Energy harvesting has been around for centuries in the form of windmills, watermills and passive solar power systems. It is not only restricted to the natural resources but it has widen the tapping source to utilise the vibration which happen all around us. In the last decade, beam with piezoceramic patches have been used as a method to harverst energy. An energy harvester system modelled in this paper consist of unimorph piezoelectic cantilever beam with a tip mass. It generates electric current or voltage from the piezoelectric strain effect due to base excitation. This paper is aimed at developing a mathematical model of unimorph cantilever beam with piezoelectric harvester by using Euler — Bernoulli beam theory. The step by step analytical solution and the simulation result are shown in the form of voltage around the natural frequencies.","PeriodicalId":376337,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132278708","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":"Geometrical analysis on BIOLOID humanoid system standing on single leg","authors":"M. Akhtaruzzaman, A. Shafie","doi":"10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937193","url":null,"abstract":"In near future humanoid robots will not only be able to socialize with the human being but will also be able to replace him even in the irksome and dangerous tasks, ranging from rescuing situations to interplanetary exploration. Nowadays many researchers are engaged on this field to make the humanoid more adaptable, intelligent and representable to the dynamic environment. Designing a suitable and efficient gait for the Biped Intelligent Machine (BIM) is a complex task. In this paper a geometrical analysis is presented to identify the movements and positions of the Center of Gravity (CoG) of a humanoid system while it balancing itself in the Single Support (SS) mode. SS mode while standing on single leg is a very critical job for a bipedal system. The paper also exemplifies the results based on the proposed Geometrical Analysis Technique (GAT) which is applied on the BIOLOID humanoid system.","PeriodicalId":376337,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123605450","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":"Modeling and simulation of trajectory for a nonholonomic car-like mobile platform","authors":"Z. Said, K. Sundaraj","doi":"10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937175","url":null,"abstract":"This paper briefly discusses about the physical properties of a mobile platform. In recent years, vehicles that move autonomously have received a good deal of attention where the US federal government through its various agencies has been the major sponsor of research in this field. Natural disaster such as earthquake or storm would be extremely dangerous and hazardous for search and rescue operation. Autonomous vehicle would be a great piece of equipment which could response to the incidence. Dubins curve is used in the study to obtain the shortest path for navigation of mobile platform. This research is ongoing where the expected result is the ability of the mobile platform to travel from initial location until target location in an unknown environment. As the platform maneuvers, it will be able to reroute a new path when obstacle is detected in order to reach the final destination.","PeriodicalId":376337,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124545290","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}
S. Hameed, Shaima Abdulla, M. Ershad, Fauzan Zahudi, Aisha Hassan
{"title":"New automobile monitoring and tracking model: Facilitate model with handhelds","authors":"S. Hameed, Shaima Abdulla, M. Ershad, Fauzan Zahudi, Aisha Hassan","doi":"10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937137","url":null,"abstract":"One of the clear facts in the world is the increasing number of cars and other automobiles in term of production as well as theft attempts. There is a big effort done by many international and local companies to produce car security systems, but the result is still less than expectations since the number of car theft cases are still increases. The thieves are developing their capabilities and inventing smarter and stronger stealing techniques which require more powerful security systems. This research project proposes an Automobile Monitoring and Tracking Model to solve this issue. It introduces a powerful security model that can send SMS and MMS to the owner to have fast response especially if the car is nearby. This paper focuses on using MMS and database technology, the picture of the intruder will be sent to user or police. The Database offers the required information about car and owner, which will help police or security authorities in tracking the car using GPS system that can be link to Google Earth and other mapping software. The implementation and testing results show the success of prototype in sending MMS to owner within 40 seconds and receiving acknowledgment to the database (police or security unit) within 3–4 minutes. The timing and results are suitable to owner and police to take suitable action against intruder.","PeriodicalId":376337,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122565001","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}
M. H. Masud, F. Anwar, O. Mohamed, S. Bari, A. Salami
{"title":"A Parallel Duplicate Address Detection (PDAD) mechanism to reduce handoff latency of Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (MIPv6)","authors":"M. H. Masud, F. Anwar, O. Mohamed, S. Bari, A. Salami","doi":"10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937128","url":null,"abstract":"Next Generation Networks (NGN) are envisioned to be fully Internet Protocol (IP) based so that users can experience high quality and ubiquitous communication. In order to realize this, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is taking advantage of Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (MIPv6) because it has more suitable features than MIPv4. However, MIPv6 is not widely deployed due to handoff latency and other limitations. This causes packet loss and degrades the Quality of Service (QoS) for real-time applications. MIPv6 handoff latency includes link layer establishment delay, movement delay, address auto-configuration delay and binding update/registration delay. Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) is performed during address auto-configuration which takes around 70% of the time for the total handoff procedures. In order to reduce this handoff latency, a Parallel DAD (PDAD) model is proposed for reducing packet loss. The key idea behind this model is that a Mobile Node (MN) solicits for a router advertisement (RA) in parallel to its neighbor routers before leaving the previous point of attachment.","PeriodicalId":376337,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125359825","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":"Parameter identification of an autonomous quadrotor","authors":"N. Abas, A. Legowo, Rini Akmeliawati","doi":"10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937198","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes one of possible parameter identification approach for a quadrotor. The unknown parameter of the quadrotor will be identified using state estimation method with the implementation of Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF). In the identification of state and parameter for nonlinear dynamic system, UKF has grown to be superior techniques. Two main processes highlighted in this paper are dynamic modeling of quadrotor and the implementation of UKF algorithm. The aim is to identify and estimate the needed parameters for an autonomous quadrotor. The obtained results demonstrate the performance of UKF based on the flight test applied to the quadrotor system.","PeriodicalId":376337,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125435910","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":"EEG signal classification for real-time brain-computer interface applications: A review","authors":"A. Khorshidtalab, M. Salami","doi":"10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937154","url":null,"abstract":"Brain-computer interface (BCI) is linking the brain activity to computer, which allows a person to control devices directly with his brain waves and without any use of his muscles. Recent advances in real-time signal processing have made BCI a feasible alternative for controlling robot and for communication as well. Controlling devices using BCI is a crucial aid for people suffering from severe disabilities and more than that, BCIs can replace human to control robots working in dangerous or uncongenial situations. Effective BCIs demand for accurate and real-time EEG signals processing. This paper is to review the current state of research and to compare the performance of different algorithms for real-time classification of BCI-based electroencephalogram signals.","PeriodicalId":376337,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)","volume":"21 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120913936","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}
R. F. Olanrewaju, Othman Omran Khalifa, A. Abdulla, A. Khedher
{"title":"Detection of alterations in watermarked medical images using Fast Fourier Transform and Complex-Valued Neural Network","authors":"R. F. Olanrewaju, Othman Omran Khalifa, A. Abdulla, A. Khedher","doi":"10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937131","url":null,"abstract":"Medical images contain diagnostic information which can be used for early detection of diseases. These images are watermarked in order to proof its integrity; not modified by unauthorized person, and to ascertain the authenticity, that is, ensuring that the image belong to the correct patient and emanates from the correct source. However, the current problem with the watermarking system used for medical images is distortion introduced during the patient data/information embedding. This factor has hindered proper detection and treatment. This paper proposed a distortion free algorithm based on Fast Fourier Transform and Complex Valued Neural Network (FFT-CVNN) that can be used for watermarking medical images. The qualities of the images were evaluated with both pixel and perceptual-based metrics. Results indicate that the host image and the watermarked image were perceptually indistinguishable and the tamper detector was able to detect any form of forgery or tampering in the watermarked image.","PeriodicalId":376337,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115096305","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 star path following mobile robot","authors":"Wong Yuen Loong, Liew Zhen Long, L. Hun","doi":"10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937169","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposed A Star (A∗) Path Following (APF) Mobile Robot with Intelligent Path Mapping (IPM) visual interface program in Windows operating system environment. A microcontroller-based APF wheeled mobile robot is developed. A computer Graphical User Interface (GUI) is created with A∗ algorithm — the algorithm widely used for path finding and graph traversal, integrated to develop the IPM visual interface. The GUI maps the optimum path from a starting location to a goal using the A∗ algorithm integrated and generates a series of instructions, where the APF robot is able to communicate, download, store and process instructions from the GUI. Execution of instructions can be done by the APF robot alone afterwards.","PeriodicalId":376337,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127168653","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}