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In this paper, we reported the wavelet analysis of lightning electric field of Narrow Bipolar Pulses (NBP) measured during two different monsoon season in Johor, Malaysia. The lightning electric field of NBP were divided into Narrow positive Bipolar Pulses (NPBP) and Narrow Negative Bipolar Pulses (NNBP). Analysis on the wavelet and frequency spectrum reveals that the energy spectrum for both NBPs...
Sports training is very important to athletes in improving and maintaining their performances. It commonly involves high intensity exercise and requires longer time for fatigue to recover, compares to normal activity. During training, adequate rest is essential to allow recuperation and build body strength. Unfortunately, inadequate rest exposes the body to prolonged fatigue (PF). Hence, this condition...
The Underactuated Lightweight Tensegrity Robotic Assistive Spine (ULTRA Spine) project is an ongoing effort to develop a flexible, actuated backbone for quadruped robots. In this work, model-predictive control is used to track a trajectory in the robot's state space, in simulation. This is the first work that tracks an arbitrary trajectory, in closed-loop, in the state space of a spine-like tensegrity...
The extracted product aspects (like “battery life”, “zoom”) from online customer reviews are dissimilar in their significances, some of these aspects have a great influence on the potential customer's decision likewise on the businesses' strategies for product enhancements. Supporting the probable customers with a list of the most representative product aspects will assist their purchasing decision...
This paper proposed a new teaching technique for engineering courses based on the implementation of drone technology. In some engineering related courses, teaching and learning are difficult due to very complex theoretical and technical explanation need to be digested by the non experienced students. In Malaysia, quadcopter is one of the technologies that become popular among young generation due...
High quality of surface electromyography is vital during investigation on muscle activity. Low quality of surface EMG signals causes extracted signals to be inaccurate and lead to misinterpretation and misclassification of the signals. A surface EMG signal quality is determined by the ratio of muscle contraction to its baseline during muscle relaxation period. Baseline noises are originated from powerline,...
A new approach for designing a narrow dual bandpass filter (BPF) using microstrip coupled line filter with new shaped of ‘bell’ structure resonator is presented in this paper. The proposed BPF consists of two fundamental resonant modes and the resonant characteristic has been investigated using Advanced Design System (ADS) software. To validate the design and analysis, the filter were fabricated and...
Many of the existing plant species on the earth are still unknown. There are different kinds of plant species and it has been subject of interest on how to identify their species. However, the current practice to identify and distinguish each species is heavily dependent on botanists. It is inefficient and wasteful of resources in terms of time and money. Moreover, our human sensory system's limitation...
Lightning generates electric fields are known to have negative consequences. In this study, two types of lightning electric fields which are Negative Return Stroke (NRS) and Narrow Bipolar Pulses were thoroughly analyzed using wavelet analysis. Hence, analysis on the wavelet and frequency spectrum reveal that the energy spectrum for NBP concentrates at high frequency (200 kHz to 500 kHz) with average...
In this article, a subcarrier-multiplexed Optical CDMA system utilizing the direct and AND subtraction method in receiver's detection is explored. The OCDMA part exploits the Recursive Combinatorial (RC) code for its algorithm. The two different designs are then simulated and the performances are compared. Results indicate that the hybrid SCM/OCDMA system using direct detection technique could transmit...
This paper investigates the performance of hybrid scheme of subcarrier multiplexed spectral-amplitude-coding optical code division multiple access (SCM SAC-OCDMA) system based on AND Subtraction detection. In this system, Recursive Combinatorial (RC) code is used where it is a new code structure in SAC-OCDMA. The effects of noise such as phase-induced intensity (PIIN) noise, thermal noise and intermodulation...
This paper analyses the spectral efficiency of hybrid subcarrier multiplexed (SCM) Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA) and conventional OCDMA based on AND Subtraction technique. We compared the spectral efficiency of SCM and the conventional OCDMA with respect the number of weights and number of users. Results indicate that the SCM OCDMA is more efficient compared to conventional OCDMA.
The explosive growth of customer reviews on e-commerce websites has inspired many researchers to explore the problem of identifying the product aspects that have been mentioned in online reviews. Most of the conducted research studies extract the product aspects based on three main criteria: 1) extracting the aspects that have been commented repeatedly in online reviews, 2) determining of important...
Wireless sensor networks consist of a large number of sensor nodes that combine physical sensing (e.g. temperature, light) with networking and computation capabilities. Sensors are small entities where conservation of battery power is a major design factor. In-network processing, such as aggregation, eliminates similar/redundant data and decreases the number of communication messages to be sent to...
Existing power allocation schemes for single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) systems are based on the assumption of Gaussian inputs. However, in practical systems, the inputs belong to a set of finite symbol alphabets. In this reported work the power allocation problem in the uplink SC-FDMA system with arbitrarily distributed finite power inputs is considered. An optimal solution...
This paper presents the instability problem of a broadcast control framework for multi-agent systems in executing certain motion coordination tasks. First, response of unstable solution using a standard broadcast control framework is demonstrated by choosing one motion coordination task as an example of the unstable case. In order to solve the problem, the standard broadcast control framework has...
Ability of wavelet transform in accessing time and frequency information at the same time make it widely used in analyzing bio-signals like electromyography (EMG). Discrete wavelet transforms (DWT) and stationary wavelet transform (SWT) are examples of analysis based on wavelet. Both analyses are based on decomposition technique and splitting signals into few frequency band. The different is DWT will...
To obtain a high-quality surface electromyography (EMG) recording, the signal must be acquired as far as possible from the muscle innervation and tendon zone. This study presents a technique to indicate better electrode positions for surface EMG of the upper limb muscles during wrist extension and flexion. Ten volunteers participated in this research. Surface EMG signals were collected from flexor...
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector installed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has an extensive muon system which provides information simultaneously for identification, track reconstruction and triggering of muons. As a consequence of the extreme particle rate and high integrated charge, the essentiality to upgrade the LHC has given rise to the High Luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC)...
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is one of the two general-purpose detectors at the CERN LHC. LHC will provide exceptional high instantaneous and integrated luminosity after second long shutdown. The forward region |η| ≥ 1:5 of CMS detector will face extremely high particle rates in tens of kHz/cm2 and hence it will affect the momentum resolution, efficiency and longevity of the muon detectors...
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