Srijan Verma, Nandha Kumar Thulasiraman, Andy Chan Tak Yee
{"title":"FPGA Based Real Time Back Posture Correction Device","authors":"Srijan Verma, Nandha Kumar Thulasiraman, Andy Chan Tak Yee","doi":"10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652776","url":null,"abstract":"It is a well agreed upon subject that bad posture leads to serious health complications from toddlers to elderly. This bad posture can be a result of a serious injury, an aftermath of a surgery or a tragic birth defect. Long term effects of such posture not only give rise to orthopaedic issue but nervous and cardiovascular as well. This paper presents a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and gyroscope-based concept design for alleviating back pain and improving form by offering lumbar support in real time. The three gyroscopes placed at the back of the user to accurately measure wearers body orientation. The data from the gyroscopes are processed using a digital design developed using Very high-speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and it is validated in the simulation environment using the appropriate testbench. The presented system proved to have an accuracy of detecting the angle variation of the body position to 0.005 degree. The proposed design is intended to tackle the deploy ability and reliability issues found most in the existing systems. Versatility is the key to the design proposed as it can be interfaced with several other cosmetic devices and it can be customized based on the consumer’s needs.","PeriodicalId":6762,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 19th Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)","volume":"2 1","pages":"108-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78294449","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":"Automated DJ Pad Audio Mashups Playback Compositions in Computer Music Utilizing Harmony Search Algorithm","authors":"Amrit Singh Balleh, Hoong-Cheng Soong, Surindar Kaur Gurmukh Singh, N. Jalil","doi":"10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652691","url":null,"abstract":"To expedite the arduous music compositions, computer music is essential to combine with the application of computing to music to assist music composers to create music rapidly and creatively using the computer algorithms under the computer musicology with the combination of interdisciplinary computer science and music fields. The prime of the utilizing algorithmic into DJ Pad system is that the physical DJ systems are not portability feasible for everyone due to complexity, time consuming and exorbitant cost. Therefore, the proposed research employs the metaheuristic optimization algorithm that is Harmony Search Algorithm (HSA) to simplify the automated tasks in the sample audio mashups that the audio files are associated with the button at the DJ Pad. Although certain rules are applied that certain keys consist of chords as in audio sample format cannot be played together, the output of the numbers from the HSA algorithms can be mapped as the combinations of the single key or multiple keys pressed in order to automate the audio mashups to produce the music as whole. Due to the same repetitive and mundane combinations using manual methods, it is interesting to allow algorithmic composition to take over to for inspirations to have new set of patterns routinely generated to avoid similar repetitive mashups when it is played manually. Thus, it could transpire the musicians to go beyond the limits of the possible mashup combinations that we humans are not aware of. Since there are numerous metaheuristic algorithms existed, the results and the output of the findings can be used as the benchmark to other popular metaheuristic algorithm that is none other than Genetic Algorithm (GA) to compete the pleasant output generated for the audio mashups","PeriodicalId":6762,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 19th Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)","volume":"63 1","pages":"388-393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73809124","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":"Modelling of CO2 Emission Prediction for Dynamic Vehicle Travel Behavior Using Ensemble Machine Learning Technique","authors":"Navarajan Subramaniam, N. Yusof","doi":"10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652757","url":null,"abstract":"Urban growth in most developing countries mainly results from vast economic development. As, consequences, capital cities have become the center of many activities. A large amount of population become permanently resides in capital cities thereby raising a need for living space, social activity areas as well as transportation. One of the major challenges in urbanizing cities is poor air quality due to transportation emission particularly CO2 from vehicles. Continuous CO2 emission could lead to irreversible air pollution which causes a significant negative impact on the environment and human health. To date, most studies have employed a specific emission factor to estimate CO2 emission from vehicles. However, the emission factor varies based on vehicle type and climate. Therefore, this study aims to develop a vehicle travel CO2 model using the ensemble technique by incorporating with large volume of data collected from laboratory. The advantage of this study may assist the urban transportation planner to design smart transportation planning that enables them to respond to the current carbon footprint map.","PeriodicalId":6762,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 19th Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)","volume":"24 1","pages":"383-387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81650948","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}
Fatin Nor Ahmad, K. A. Mohamad, Yusmar Palapa Wijaya, A. Alias, M. S. Nordin, B. Ghosh
{"title":"Pentacene Thin Film by Compact Thermal Evaporation System","authors":"Fatin Nor Ahmad, K. A. Mohamad, Yusmar Palapa Wijaya, A. Alias, M. S. Nordin, B. Ghosh","doi":"10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652678","url":null,"abstract":"A compact thermal evaporation technique was used to fabricate pentacene thin films from a pure (99%) powder. All of the samples were grown at ambient temperature on glass substrates coated with indium tin oxide (ITO), and their optical, structural, and electrical properties were investigated. UV-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy in atmosphere (PESA) methods were used to evaluate the optical properties of a pentacene thin film utilising experimental values of optical band gap and ionisation potential. The energy band diagram of the highest occupied molecular orbital - lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (HOMO-LUMO) level depicts the electronic structure of pentacene. The HOMO and LUMO energy levels were determined toward being -5.49 eV and -3.74 eV, respectively, while the optical bandgap was 1.75 eV. Then, X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to examine the structural properties of a thermally evaporated pentacene thin film. The XRD analysis revealed the bulk phase thin films oriented along the (001) plane direction. Finally, metal/pentacene/metal structured device was fabricated and showed a rectifying behavior.","PeriodicalId":6762,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 19th Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)","volume":"25 1","pages":"273-277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87288078","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}
Haqi Khalid, S. Hashim, Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahamed, F. Hashim, Muhammad Akmal Chaudhary
{"title":"Secure Real-time Data Access Using Two-Factor Authentication Scheme for the Internet of Drones","authors":"Haqi Khalid, S. Hashim, Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahamed, F. Hashim, Muhammad Akmal Chaudhary","doi":"10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652714","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Drones (IoD) is a distributed network control system that mainly manages unmanned aerial vehicle access to controlled airspace and provides navigation between so-called nodes. Securing the transmission of real-time information from the nodes in these applications is essential. The limited drone nodes, data storage, computing and communication capabilities necessitate the need to design an effective and secure authentication scheme. Recently, research has proposed remote user authentication and the key agreement on IoD and claimed that their schemes satisfied all security issues in these networks. However, we found that their schemes may lead to losing access to the drone system due to the corruption of using a key management system and make the system completely unusable. To solve this drawback, we propose a lightweight and anonymous two-factor authentication scheme for drones. The proposed scheme is based on an asymmetric cryptographic method to provide a secure system and is more suitable than the other existing schemes by securing real-time information. Moreover, the comparison shows that the proposed scheme minimized the complexity of communication and computation costs.","PeriodicalId":6762,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 19th Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)","volume":"47 1","pages":"168-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89951478","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. Nalwanga, Jimmy Nsenga, G. Rushingabigwi, Ignace Gatare
{"title":"Design of an Embedded Machine Learning Based System for an Environmental-friendly Crop Prediction Using a Sustainable Soil Fertility Management","authors":"R. Nalwanga, Jimmy Nsenga, G. Rushingabigwi, Ignace Gatare","doi":"10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652766","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the existing precision agriculture solutions recommend the use of fertilizers as a remedy to poor soil fertility and to boost yields. Such solutions cause environmental degradation in the long run mainly due to the overuse of fertilizers. There is therefore, a need for a system to ensure that farmers can practice precision farming in terms of a sustainable soil management approach so as to attain high yields while at the same time conserving the environment. In this research, a design and simulation of an embedded machine learning based system to predict the best crop to grow with minimal use of fertilizers with an aim of conserving the environment is presented. The system senses different real time soil parameters on a daily basis, integrates them with forecast weather information and uses embedded machine learning technique to determine which crop would grow best under the existing soil conditions so as to minimize fertilizer use. In addition to crop prediction, the system helps farmers to monitor the soil nutrients evolution so that action can be done on real time. The results are either displayed on the device or sent to the farmer’s mobile phone. This is a move from the existing solutions that depend on cloud analytics and do not consider the change of soil conditions on time in making the predictions and decisions since this is expensive when done at the cloud. The implementation of the proposed solution is expected to not only lead to high productivity and reduced costs but also conserve the environment.","PeriodicalId":6762,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 19th Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)","volume":"3 1","pages":"251-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79051225","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. K. Tan, Kah Ming Yap, Kit Guan Lim, Soo Siang Yang, Pungut Ibrahim, Kenneth Tze Kin Teo
{"title":"Adapting Photovoltaic Perturbation Voltage with Particle Swarm Optimization","authors":"M. K. Tan, Kah Ming Yap, Kit Guan Lim, Soo Siang Yang, Pungut Ibrahim, Kenneth Tze Kin Teo","doi":"10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652760","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO) based maximum power point tracking (MPPT) system for maximizing the output power of a photovoltaic (PV) system and minimizing the output power fluctuation. Under partially shaded condition (PSC), the P-V characteristics will exhibit multiple peaks. The conventional MPPT approaches, such as perturb and observe (P&O) algorithm will tend to track the local maximum power point (LMPP) instead of the global maximum power point (GMPP). The fix perturbation size of the P&O algorithm will lead to power losses as the output power fluctuates at steady state. Thus, PSO based MPPT algorithm is proposed to track the GMPP and minimize the fluctuation in output power. The proposed algorithm will determine the optimum perturbation size for MPPT controller based on the information of change in voltage and change in power. The simulation results show that the optimized MPPT is able to track the GMPP under PSC accurately, fast and with zero oscillation in comparison with conventional MPPT. Parameter’s tuning is important for PSO based MPPT to achieve good transient response, particularly the inertia weight. In conclusion, the PSO based MPPT can ensure optimal and stable power generation from the PV system.","PeriodicalId":6762,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 19th Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)","volume":"161 1","pages":"484-489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74202902","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 Sixteen Mode Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna for Underlay Cognitive Radio","authors":"Laith Wajeeh Abdullah, A. Sallomi, M. Wali","doi":"10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652735","url":null,"abstract":"A reconfigurable UWB antenna that meets the requirements of underlay cognitive radio is presented in this paper. This antenna is controllable to reject one or a combination of the bands dedicated for Wi-Max, C-band, WLAN and X-band that coexist within its UWB radiation into one of its fifteen band rejection modes. On the other hand, it can operate in no rejection mode that covers the entire UWB region. This 25x25x0.8 mm3 wide slot antenna with a modified circular radiator is designed to achieve a high impedance bandwidth that covers the 3.1-10.6 GHz range. Four slots, two on each metal face, are etched to create the desired band notches. A PIN diode is placed across each of these four slots to activate/deactivate band suppression. All the possible states resulting from these PIN diodes are useable in this design that it has sixteen operation modes. Good notch characteristics are proved by CST v.10 simulation results of this design. These when merged with the full use of switching states, the large number of operation modes, the variation of rejected states and the simplicity and compactness of the design, all evidence the functionality of this antenna to enhance the quality of communication within the UWB by reducing the interference in the targeted regions.","PeriodicalId":6762,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 19th Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)","volume":"118 1","pages":"146-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88032171","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}
Nur’Afiqah Abdul Aziz, F. Ahmad, M. Q. Lokman, S. Harun, E. Hanafi
{"title":"Generation of Passive Q-switched by using Graphene Oxide in Erbium Doped Fiber Laser","authors":"Nur’Afiqah Abdul Aziz, F. Ahmad, M. Q. Lokman, S. Harun, E. Hanafi","doi":"10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652758","url":null,"abstract":"The past decade has seen the rapid development of saturable absorber in various material and structure. Graphene is known as one of the best materials used as the saturable absorber for optical fiber laser due to its flat honeycomb shape. However, graphene is costly and relatively challenging to produce. Therefore, the alternative was used to solve this issue by oxidize it to form graphene oxide. This research is based on graphene oxide saturable absorber. Incorporating small portion of the graphene oxide based polyvinyl alcohol into a cavity of Erbium-doped fiber laser, generate a stable Q-switched pulsed that operate in a wavelength of 1560.50 nm within an adjustable pump power range of 16.88mW to 72.85mW. The increasing of the pump power, causes the repetition rate to be increased from 32.45kHz to 81.7kHz with the shortest pulse width of 5.67 us. Other than that, this Q-switched has a high output power and high pulse energy of 8.93mW and 109.30 nJ. These prove that graphene oxide consists of flexibility and easy to be sandwich in the laser cavity. However, graphene oxide still has a room for improvement to offers a better Q-switched fiber laser.","PeriodicalId":6762,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 19th Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)","volume":"37 1","pages":"300-304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89495909","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}
Amr Nabil Youssef, Arya Lekshmi Jagath, Nandha Kumar Thulasiraman, H. Almurib
{"title":"Effect of Sneak Path Current in TiOx/HfOx Based 1S1R RRAM Crossbar Memory Array","authors":"Amr Nabil Youssef, Arya Lekshmi Jagath, Nandha Kumar Thulasiraman, H. Almurib","doi":"10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOReD53546.2021.9652781","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, an electrical model of one Selector-one Resistor (1S1R) memory cell structure consisting of a Pt/Ta2O5/TaOx/TiO2/Pt multi-layer selector and a TiN/TiOx/HfOx/Pt Resistive-RAM (RRAM) is proposed. 1S1R and One Resistor (1R) crossbars of sizes up to 128x128 are designed and simulated using CADENCE Virtuoso. The proposed 1S1R crossbars reduce the sneak path current by up to 99.8%, the voltage drops across the crossbars' lines by up to 97.2% and the total current consumption during writing by up to 98.4%, whilst the unselected cells' states remain unaffected. The effect of the crossbars' size and the writing scheme on the 1S1R performance is comprehensively evaluated in this work. In addition, the read Ion/Ioff ratio is substantially increased. The proposed 1S1R structure can reach relatively large crossbar sizes without sacrificing power efficiency and reliability. Thus, the proposed structure offers the potential to be utilized in implementing high-density RRAM memories.","PeriodicalId":6762,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 19th Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD)","volume":"15 1","pages":"267-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85747241","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}