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The development of big data analytics in recent years has enabled wide use of analysis tools such as R in various industries including robotics and automation. Its most recent reported application for data analysis is limited to only a small dataset and the processing time was not reported. Thus, this work proposes a fast approach for automatic data retrieval using R, a powerful programming language...
A mobile robot is designed to pick and place the objects through voice commands. This work would be practically useful to wheelchair bound persons. The pick and place robot is designed in a way that it is able to help the user to pick up an item that is placed at two different levels using an extendable arm. The robot would move around to pick up an item and then pass it back to the user or to a desired...
One of the most important actual problems in the gas detection field is that there are strong demands for gas methane source detection to prevent explosions or poisoning accidents …etc. In this case we need an autonomous equipment to perform wide surveying of the ground area surface based on a pattern to know its concentration on each spot of the required ground area. The best method of performing...
Since 2007, the emerging wireless technologies for industrial applications such as wireless highway addressable remote transducer (WirelessHART), and ISA100.11a have been used mainly for process monitoring application only. When gearing toward control application of these technologies a common factor that often being considered is network latency or known as delay. Although the typical network round...
This paper presents a comparative study and analysis of different neural network architectures of which one will be recommended towards adoption for developing a prediction model for gas metering system. Thus, the focus of this paper is to select the most suitable neural network architecture for gas metering system prediction model. A few neural networks architecture are modeled and simulated; Radial...
A hand home-based rehabilitation system which is interactive, portable and affordable, equipped with the ability in qualitative and quantitative diagnosis on muscle performance and strength is reported in this paper. The therapy system utilizes the concept of game-based therapy which aims to develop interest of patient. The hardware input module has a compact joypad input design with wireless connectivity...
In this paper, the plantar pressure distribution and the center of pressure movement were studied and gait stability of high heels versus normal heels was observed. A group of ten young female participants without any previous lower limbs injuries were asked to wear shoes of different heel heights, namely, 0cm, 2cm and 4cm and walk at a speed of 3km/hr on a treadmill. The pressure that their body...
For everyday inspection jobs in offshore oil and gas industry, the human divers are being replaced by underwater vehicles. This paper proposes a visual feedback based control of an autonomous underwater vehicle for pipeline inspection. The hydrodynamic disturbances in water severely affect the movement of the vehicle resulting in performance degrading. The heading of the autonomous underwater vehicle...
A key and critical challenge in Industrial processes is real-time system identification. This has prompted a lot of research efforts towards the development of model based adaptive identification methods. Their key advantage is that system parameters are tuned adaptively and online. This paper proposes online identification of Air Flow Plant using adaptive U-Model. The recently developed model is...
RFID tags are commonly used in the industry for tracking and managing assets. The long range of a RFID reader is essential for detection of the RFID tags. Due to this requirement, tags are powered by batteries which deplete over a period of time and cause an inconvenience in the process of RFID tags detection. Therefore, a rectenna architecture consisting of a seven stage Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier...
This paper presents a new pattern framework of using Radon and wavelet transform for facial emotion recognition. The Radon transform is translation and rotation invariants, hence it preserves the variations in pixel intensities. In this work, Radon transform has been used to project the 2D image into Radon space before subjected to Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). In DWT framework, the approximate...
The atmospheric hazards that may be present in confined space pose serious threat to human while carrying special task in the respective location. Among the areas that are considered as confined space are utility tunnel, boiler, storage tank, sewage lines, man holes and underground electrical fault. Currently, there is no specific technique to replace worker for task such as collecting air sample...
The use of data acquisition system (DAQ) is important in process industry as it enables analog signal from physical system to be converted into a digital signal for processing by computer and vice versa. However, many of the DAQs available in the market today are complex and expensive. This paper presents the development of a simple, low-cost and open source microcontroller-based DAQ system for process...
Robotic Rehabilitation is a prominent rehabilitation tool that provides comprehensive repetitive tasks, diversity and feedback for cost efficiency with quantitative measurement of human motor performances substituting the conventional physiotherapy. However, the current literature has a paucity of robotic devices assessment on the human motor performances with different handedness. Therefore, this...
This paper presents an approach to model Twin Rotor MIMO System (TRMS). For simplicity, the model is separated into three channels: vertical, horizontal, and cross-coupling channels. A hybrid method, a cooperation between first principle method and optimal algorithm, is used to analyse and model the system. Unknown parameters of the model are estimated by physical experiments and Genetic Algorithm...
In order to ensure that a robotic hand can successfully grasp objects without damaging them, an active compliance control can be a very useful technique to provide a safe grasping. In particular, this paper establishes a direct force control for a 3-Finger Adaptive Robot Gripper by using a PID control. A modified FSR force sensor where a plastic cover is used to ensure the contacted force during grasping...
This paper gives an insight on the design and development of a mobile measurement device to measure the elbow joint movement of a Badminton player. Badminton is one of the fastest racket-based sport. Since a human eye alone is not capable of capturing all these fast movements the usage of high processing optometric system became a popularity but the downside is these systems are expensive and large...
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