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CODE TITLE PSM001 3 phase inverter control using Adruino for motor application PSM002 3 phase rectifier control using Adruino for dc motor application PSM003 3D interactive Game 1 (training) PSM004 A Compact Multiband Monopole Antenna for WLAN/WiMAX Applications PSM005 A domestic LPG monitoring system PSM006 A Home Automation System Using Hardware Design Technique PSM007 A hybrid intelligent system for automated pomegranate disease detection & grading PSM008 A mechatronic wearable kneeorthotics PSM009 A MODEL ON LED BASED STREETLIGHT CONTROLLING SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC BRIGHTNESS CONTROL WITH VEHICLE PRESENCE SENSOR PSM010 A motorized three-phase automatic voltage stabilizer PSM011 A New Approach of Incorporating Recycled Materials Into Pyramidal Horn Antenna for WLAN Application PSM012 A portable and wireless IMU using XBEE PSM013 A portable gait monitoring system PSM014 A portable mechatronic elevator for a stroke patient PSM015 A Wound-Field Three-Phase Flux-Switching Synchronous Motor with DC-Field Excitation Sources on the Stator PSM016 Accident identifications by auto dialer PSM017 Action Potential Conduction Modeling using Simulink PSM018 ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING USING CIRCULAR PATCH ANTENNA SYNOPSIS In this project, the student will build the 3 phase inverter in order to apply to the ac motor. The inveter will be operated using Adruino DSP application for the control building system. The control that will be used is the current control technique In this project, the student will build the 3 phase rectifier in order to apply to the dc motor. The inveter will be operated using Adruino DSP application for the control building system. The control that will be used is the voltage controller technique The many desirable characteristics that planar monopole antennas exhibit, including a wide impedance bandwidth, good radiation properties, simple fabrication, and low cost, have resulted in considerable research conducted in this area. The main objective of this research is to design a compact multiband monopole antenna working for WLAN/WiMAX applications. The aim of this project is to monitor the amount of the LPG in the cylinder and to detect any gas leakage. Safety and security is just a click of the appropriate technology away, and with such advancements happening, the security of one’s home must also not be left behind. This project is an example of the use of digital systems design to accomplish that goal, where the security and comfort of a home is the issue at hand.This device has been modeled such that it takes care of home intrusion detection and avoidance, while it also controls other home environment factors such as temperature and smoke detection. A sequential pattern of controlling the front door, rear door, windows, fire alarm and temperature is followed in a priority order. Human locomotion could be known as the inter-change between the swing phase and the stance phase. During the swing phase, the gravity assists the swing and the knee does minimum work. However, during the stance phase, strong knee support against the human load especially due to obesity is essential to avoid buckling and hence body fall. Serious injuriesmight be occurredespecially the group of elderly and the disabled. A mechatronic wearable knee orthotics is proposed to provide a controlled support at the knee during the stance phasewhile providing minimum or no hindrance during the swing phase. Street lights are important street furniture mainly to keep road user safe at night. On the other hand, an empty street with street lights switched on is a waste of energy. An intelligent street light is a system equipped with vehicle presence sensors so that when a vehicle is detected, a series of LED lights are turned on sequentially ahead of the vehicle. This saves electricity and at the same time keeps road users lightened. This is a voltage stabilizing circuit capable of providing a constant preset voltage at around 400V to 420V, suitable for machineries where constant voltage supply is of prime concern. In this project three separate autotransformer with slider contact are to be used. Each of the autotransformer should have rating of 1kVA and mounted on a common shaft to be controlled by a single-phase synchronous motor. The pyramidal horn antenna is an aperture antenna type with linear polarization. The antenna allows the radiation of narrow beams in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. It is usually employed when working in the microwave band since they provide high gain. It is fed by a rectangular waveguide. The antenna is intended to work at 2.45 GHz. It will be designed using recycle materials such as milk tetrabrick, cardboard and aluminum film. An IMU of MEMS type measures the kinematic properties of a motion. This research investigatesanwireless technology for an accelemetric gait monitoring system. The gait of the subject should not be obstructed and limited by the existing interfacing cables between the sensor and the controller. XBEE is a reliable wireless standard for a sensory development. A gait monitoring system measures and collects the dynamic motions of the limb segments of a subject. This system is important to provide scientific information about the walking quality of a subject. In specific, it is applied in medical research regarding gait quality, assessment of human pathological gait, normal and amputee gait. More generally, the system could be applied in any applications in the study of motion. This research aims at developing a low-cost portable gait monitoring system for the study of lower limb motions. The health condition of stroke patientsis believed to be relevant directly to their daily activities. Their mobility drops to minimum or zero when additive physical body supports are scarce or impossible. The effects are both physically and mentally such as obesity, skin issue and loss of living happiness. Basic outdoor activities such as getting on/off a car, stepping up or down a stair become a great challenge to both the patient and the helper.This research intends to look for a feasible method to overcome the above issues. A portable mechatronic system is proposed to elevate the patient from/to a certain height such as during getting on/off a car or stepping up/down a step. A three-phase, segmental-rotor, flux-switching synchronous motor will be designed, with both field and armature windings placed on the stator. Mutual coupling of the circuits is through segments whose motion causes switching of flux in the armature circuit. The magnetic geometry is substantially different to that of other flux-switching machines (FSMs), and may offer advantages in terms of torque density and controllability. This research deal with the principles and evaluation of a three-phase design, based on a 24-tooth of stator and 14-segment of rotor. The project is about to do simulation of action potential conduction based on Matlab and Simulink. The related electrophysiological phenomena will be studied through the simulation. Recently, a concept termed ESPAR has been reported to be able to achieve beam steering without the need of phase shifters. In ESPARs, passive radiators are excited by the driven antenna through the mutual coupling between them. The phase shifts required for beam steering are realized by changing the reactance of the varactors loading the passive radiators. Rectangular patch antenna will be used and Downhill simplex method will be used to maximize the cost function. Cross correlation is used as a cost function. PSM019 PSM020 PSM021 ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING USING FRACTAL ANTENNA Alignment System using Digital Compass, GPS, and Barometric Sensor Alleviating Voltage Sag in Distribution system using DVR PSM022 An alternative means of thermal imaging system for search and rescue operations PSM023 An autonomous domestic water tank cleaning robot PSM024 An intelligent prepaid roadside parking meter PSM025 An intelligent road work warning robot PSM026 An investigation of Malaysia’s residential electricity consumption PSM027 An investigation on renewable energy technologies implemented in Malaysia PSM028 ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CROSS DIPOLE FSS USING EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL PSM029 ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF RECONFIGURABLE AND CLOSELY COUPLED FSS PSM030 ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF RING PATCH USING EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL PSM031 Analysis on the Higher Order Terms of the Appleton-Lassen’s Equation to determine the Magnetic Field effect to GPS positioning PSM032 Analysis Simulated and Experiment Tested Partial Discharges Stress of the HV Outdoor Insulators Recently, a concept termed ESPAR has been reported to be able to achieve beam steering without the need of phase shifters. In ESPARs, passive radiators are excited by the driven antenna through the mutual coupling between them. The phase shifts required for beam steering are realized by changing the reactance of the varactors loading the passive radiators. Fractal antenna will be used and Downhill simplex method will be used to maximize the cost function. Cross correlation is used as a cost function. This work is to establish a system that is able to show alignment information by using digital compass, digital barometric semiconductor, and GPS sensor. Alignment is very critical, if not reduce wastage especially in telecommunication where two distant antennas have to be aligned to achieve best results. Alignment done in the past are usually and purely based on guessing work, paper map and also by using conventional compass. These methods are inaccurate and cause a lot of alignment issues and hence proved not convenient. A tool that can capture altimeter, location, and coordinate location can perform the job easily. This work will make full use of the available information from digital semiconductors and to produce accurate alignment information for users. Voltage sag is one of the major power quality problem and its severe impact to the non linear loads in distribution system. Nowadays, the utilities provider has been faced with increasing numbers of complain about the power quality due to voltage sags especially sectors that deal with sensitive loads. Voltage sag is usually correlated with system faults but can also be caused by energization of transformer or starting of induction motors. The Dynamic Voltage Restorer has been found as the effective method in order to mitigate voltage sag problem. Simulation results carried out by Matlab Simulink will verify the effectiveness of this method. Thermal imaging system, which operation relies on the detection of infrared radiation energy emitted based on the heat of an object, has been extensively used for long distance applications such as on rough landscapes and at sea for search and rescue operations owing to their fast, consistent and reliable performance. This system is, however, bulky and expensive due to the technology used in its camera system. This work aims to design and develop a cheaper and alternative means of thermal imaging system using an infrared point detection system. This project would also investigate the working range of the developed system and reliability of the developed system for search and rescue operations. The aim of this project is to develop and built a mobile robot that will clean the water tank floor autonomously. Currently the car parking charges for the roadside parking is done manually where the car driver has to scratch the prepaid parking coupon for the duration that has already been set on the coupon. If additional parking time is required after the current parking time has lapsed, he owner has to rush to the car to scratch new coupon for the additional parking charge. The main aim of this project is to develop an automatic system where the parking charges are paid by the driver automatically as long as the car is parked along the roadside The aim of this project is to develop a robot that will give warning about the adjacent road work according to the volume of traffic. The goal of this project is to investigate the electricity usage among Malaysia’s residential. A survey will be carried out in order to investigate the electricity usage for different types of houses in Malaysia. This project will investigate the renewable energy technologies that have been implemented in Malaysia and also identifying the barriers and challenges for developing RE policy in Malaysia Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) are commonly employed to provide spatial filtering of electromagnetic waves. The reflection and transmitting properties of the FSS majorly depends on the shape of the FSS where at high frequency range, the shapes can be represented by lumped components of R, L and C. This topic focuses on cross dipole patch array only. Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) are commonly employed to provide spatial filtering of electromagnetic waves. For reconfigurable application which requires multi operating frequency, usually two or more shapes of FSS were putting together in a unit cell. However the scattering properties depend on the distance between two shapes of FSS. If the two different shapes were putting too close together the mutual coupling will be observed. Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) are commonly employed to provide spatial filtering of electromagnetic waves. The reflection and transmitting properties of the FSS majorly depends on the shape of the FSS where at high frequency range, the shapes can be represented by lumped components of R, L and C. This topic focuses on ring patch array only. In this project, the student should be able to understand the Appleton-Lassen’s equation and define the higher order terms which define the magnetic field of the Earth. Then, the variation in the magnetic field over the equatorial region during low solar activity, especially, shall be analysed in order to see the effect of it to the GPS positioning. This is important as the variation of the magnetic field for low solar activity can be analysed and its effect to GPS positioning can be obtained. Some simulation and experimentation works will be conducted to investigate the occurrence of partial discharge patterns on aging outdoor insulators. Simulation works will focus on the design concept of the insulators insulation properties as well as technique in simulating the PD occurrences. The PD tests will be conducted using the TERCO HVAC PD set to capture the PD patterns on selected case studies. PSM034 This is a project will provide valuable information to the power system designer / asset manager in terms of the power transformer insulation design. Transformer is a static machine, part of the most expensive power equipment in power system. The equipment mainly consists of the windings to step up / down the voltages and the insulations to hold the current from leakage to the ground or other phases. The insulation properties built inside the transformer are Analysis Simulated Electrical Field stress of the Power Transformer Insulation Coordination physically vary by their function and look, such as can be seen in the form of liquid oil, insulating paper and solid. It is Design via Finite Element Software crucial for the insulation system to be properly coordinated to withstanding the normal and abnormal power sources, which can trigger the overvoltages and overcurrent, that could possibly damaging the device. Thus, part of requirement is for the transformer insulation properties to be designed and analysed based on the electric field stress method, which therefore also being the objective of the project. Typically the finite element method (FEA) is used in analysing the electrical stress of the design; however, the process solution can be very complex and time consuming, thus usually re Animated Interactive 5S Management Courseware PSM035 Animated Interactive Occupational Safety and Health Management Courseware PSM033 PSM036 Application of Intelligent Technique for Development of Colpitts Oscillator PSM037 Application of PIC microcontroller for a handheld USB flash drive content copier PSM038 Application of Raspberry Pi for automated robot system PSM039 Application of Raspberry Pi for electrical appliances control PSM040 Application of Raspberry Pi for home security system PSM041 Application of Raspberry Pi for OMR sheet scanner PSM042 Application of Superconducting Fault Current Limiter in Power System PSM043 Appraise the effect of motor starting on power system quality by using PSCAD/ETAP PSM044 Arduino based Home security using GSM-SMS system PSM045 Arduino-based GPS tracking robot PSM046 Area, Delay and Area-delay Optimisation: Efficient Design of a Hybrid-adder PSM047 Augmented Reality Simulator (information provider) PSM048 Auto-heal Alert System in Industrial Power System PSM049 Automatic Detection of Eggshell Defects Based on Machine Vision PSM050 Automatic Solar Radiation Tracker for Maximum Solar Energy PSM051 Axial Mode Helical Antenna Development Using Recycled Materials for WLAN Application PSM052 Bees Algorithm Technique for Loss Minimization in Power Transmission Network Using Static Var Compensator PSM053 Broadband Square Ring Microstrip Antenna PSM054 Buck-boost control using Adruino for energy storage PSM055 Car Plate Recognition using Freeman Chain Coding PSM056 Cardiac Excitation Modeling using Simulink In this project, student has to develop new method of Colpitts oscillator designing through combination of Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). In the proposed common base Colpitts oscillator, it Thevenin’s resistors are should be optimized through application of GA and ANN. The developed common base Colpitts oscillator should has the shortest transient time response and stable Direct Curent (DC) stability in the long term operation. Application of these two artificial intelligent techniques should assist faster selection of optimizes components values such as resistance values during circuit development rather than conventional method which used intuition techniques to develop the circuit. Using a PIC to develop a handheld device that is able to read, write, delete and copy content to and from a USB drive. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard. It’s a miniature ARM-based PC which can be used for many of the things that a desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays High-Definition video. For this project, a system that able to control a robot that will perform a specific function will be developed. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard. It’s a miniature ARM-based PC which can be used for many of the things that a desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays High-Definition video. For this project, a system that able to control electrical appliances via internet will be developed. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard. It’s a miniature ARM-based PC which can be used for many of the things that a desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays High-Definition video. For this project, a system that able to monitor several sensors via internet will be developed. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard. It’s a miniature ARM-based PC which can be used for many of the things that a desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays High-Definition video. For this project, a system that able to read OMR sheet will be developed. An application of superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) is proposed to limit the fault current that occurs in power system. The unsymmetrical faults are analyzed. The SFCL is incorporated to the bus which gives the highest fault current at two different positions that is the main position and the feeder position. There are two types of SFCL, purely resistive and purely inductive. Simulations were performed using MATLAB Programming and Simulink version 7.S and were tested on 11 bus IEEE systems to show its capability and feasibility Survey shows that presently power electronic loads are of 10-15%. It is expected to increase by 70% in next ten years. The effect of such loads on power system quality is unavoidable to help in pre-planning of false tripping and supplying quality waveforms. Power quality is also affected by power factor correction as well as motor starting. The aim of this project is to develop a home security that can notify the user using Ethernet connection. Sensor such as IR, ultrasonic or pressure sensor is used to detect a movement/present of thief. Arduino is used as a microcontroller. The aim of this project is to develop a tracking robot using GPS system that can move to specific coordinate (latitude and longitude) given by user. Arduino is used as a microcontroller. This project explores various possibilities of fault occurrence in industrial environment. The intention of this project is to construct conceptual procedures in developing the auto-heal system for industrial power system. The major contribution of this project is to help industries consumers in enhancing the reliability and quality of the power supply. The objectives of this project are (i) to construct proper load monitoring algorithm, (ii) to develop user friendly program for load monitoring and auto-heal alert system, (iii) to integrate the auto-heal alert system to the switching devices. The aim of this project is to develop a system that can track a maximum radiation of solar energy. This system consists of data logger to log a level of solar energy every 5 minutes interval. Arduino is used as a microcontroller. The helical antenna in axial mode is a wideband antenna type. It is usually employed in applications requiring high directivity. It consists of N turns of diameter D and spaced at a distance S between the turns. The antenna is intended to work at 2.45 GHz. It will be designed using recycle materials such as milk tetrabrick, cardboard cylinder, toothpicks and foam. The loss minimization technique is implemented through Static Var Compensator (SVC) installation and the optimization technique is the Bees Algorithm. Bees Algorithm was developed to optimally determine the SVC values to be installed in the power transmission network. In this study, SVC was modeled as an effective capacitive reactance equivalent which aims to alter the transmission lines properties in the system. In order to perform validation process, a 26-bus IEEE Reliability Test System (RTS) will be utilized and tested in minimizing total transmission loss in the system Bandwidth enhancement strategies have recently been reported by using circular patch element patch [l] - [2]. By introducing a proper size of inner and outer size of the circular element, two adjacent resonant modes with similar radiation characteristics significantly enhance the operating bandwidth of the patch antenna. However, the selection of suitable ratios between inner and outing circular dimensions results in the required bandwidth performance to be degraded significantly. In this work, a S-band square ring microstrip element is proposed to be used in which the design will be optimized by strategic embedding resonant element configuration that has the possibility of increasing the bandwidth performance. Various embedding element configurations will be studied to characterize the achievable range of frequencies with low loss performance that can be used for terrestrial systems. In this project, the buck-boost converter with the ability of bidirectional current flow will be designed. In order to control the switching pattern for the converter the Adruino is used for the DSP processing after the control strategies has been developed. It is aims to control the power flow to the battery The project is about to do simulation of cardiac excitation modeling based on Matlab and Simulink. Some cardiac electrophysiological phenomena will be studied through the simulation. PSM057 Cluster-Based Implementation for Scalable NoC-based Manycore Processor Architecture PSM058 PSM059 PSM060 PSM061 PSM062 PSM063 PSM064 PSM065 PSM066 PSM067 PSM068 PSM069 Communication Eng. Communication Eng. Communication Eng. Communication Eng. PSM070 Communication Eng. Communication Eng. Communication Eng. Communication Eng. Communication Eng. Communication Eng. Communication Eng. Communication Eng. Comparative Study of Different Type of Inverters for PV System PSM071 Comparison of Carrierless Amplitude-Phase (CAP) and Discrete Multitone (DMT) for Inhome Networks PSM072 Comparison of the Earth’s magnetic field value between the IGRF-11 and measurement using Magnetometer PSM073 COMPARISON OF TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT (TEC) FROM IRI MODEL AND GPS-IGS NETWORK FOR DIFFERENT LATITUDES PSM074 CONSTANT TEMPERATURE CONTROL USING THERMOELECTRIC EFFECT FOR ELECTRONICS COOLING AND HEATING PSM075 Construction of a fine angle tuning system using PIC Microcontroller PSM076 Deposition of uniform CuO films by sol-gel technique PSM077 Design a Comprehensive Solar Energy/Powered Car using CAD Software PSM078 Design and Analysis of Normal Mode Spherical Helical Antenna PSM079 Design and Development Blood Vessel Measurement System PSM080 Design and development EMG System to evaluate muscle contraction PSM081 Design and Development of Bubble Detector (Monitoring and Termination System) PSM082 Design and development of defibrillator analyzer PSM083 Design and Development of Force Level Detector for Micro Contact Printing Process PSM084 Design and Development of Pulse Oximeter PSM085 Design and development of two-axis solar tracker system To be able to scale multiprocessor architecture towards higher number of processing cores, several choices are available. Cluster-based approach, as opposed to the traditional tile-based approach, is a promising candidate due to the fact that it packs a number of processing cores into a cluster to carry out specific and local tasks. In addition, integration process is easier which is by adjusting the number of cores in the cluster according to the application specific characteristics. This project comprises several parts: 1) design a parameterize cluster of processor with NoC architecture 2) evaluating the performance for various number of processing cores. No synopsis No synopsis No synopsis No synopsis No synopsis No synopsis No synopsis No synopsis No synopsis No synopsis No synopsis No synopsis To perform simulations by using PSCAD/SIMULINK on different type of inverter systems to determine which one yields the most output from the PV generation Single-carrier and multi-carrier modulation are alternative techniques for providing digital communication for various applications such as asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), broadband wired/wireless systems and optical communication systems. Carrierless amplitude-phase (CAP) is a single-carrier modulation format that operates in time domain, and discrete multitone (DMT) is a multi-carrier modulation format that operates in frequency domain. The purpose of this research is to compare this two modulation techniques over multimode fiber for in-home networks application. In this project, the student should be able to understand the Earth’s magnetic field concept and the its being measured. On top, should be able to define and identify how the measurement is being done by the IGRF-11 database. Basically, must know what it IGRF-11 first. Then, the student should be able to understand on how to operate the Magnetometer that is located in WARAS. Once the techniques of measurement is understood, the student should measure some realistic Earth’s magnetic field from some selected places. Then, have to compare with the IGRF-11. Global electron content can be obtained from few sources. The International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) model is able to produce such output. Meanwhile, the existence of widely distributed of GPS ground receivers from the International GNSS Service (IGS) network also allow computation of Total Electron Content (TEC) to be made. In this study, the TEC obtained from the IGS network will be compared with the value from the IRI model. Since the ionospheric behaviour change with various parameters, for example, height above earth’s surface, geographic and geomagnetic location, time of day, season, solar activity, and solar disturbances, comparison will be made of the TEC obtained from IGS and IRI under various conditions in order to observe how the model perform at different latitudes. Electronics often get hot during operations and will cool down to room temperature after being turned off. The cycle of getting hot and cold or also normally known as thermal cycling can cause premature break down of these electronics. The temperature of expensive electronics i.e. amplifiers must be regulated, such as cooling during operation and heating during non operation to prevent thermal stress to the electronic. By using FPGA, the temperature can be maintained to 0.1 degree accuracy and the heating and cooling can be performed using thermoelectric effect. Small size antennas have been continuously developed for mobile communications. A small spherical helical antenna is an antenna consisting of a conducting wire wound in the form of a helix with the outer follows a spherical shape. This antenna is very small and can be conveniently used in mobile communication handsets. In most cases, spherical helical antennas are mounted over a ground plane. The feed line is connected between the bottom of the helix and the ground plane. In the normal mode, the dimensions of the helix are small compared with the wavelength. The antenna will resonate at 900 MHz. The radiation pattern will be compared between the normal mode spherical helical and the normal mode cylindrical helical antennas. This project is aim to develop a device to measure constriction of blood vessel in arm. First, the arm will expose to the magnetic field and the distribution of magnetic field around the arm will measure using magnetic field sensor. The intensity of the magnetic field will relate with the constriction of blood vessel. The result of this analysis will be compare with ultrasound images of blood vessel. This project is aim to develop hardware system to measure muscle contraction during exercise. The EMG signal will be analyze using Matlab software for signal classification and evaluation. This aim of this project is to measure the performance of defibrillator during plan preventive maintenance work. The discharging rate of the defibrillator will be measure and the result will be display through LCD screen. The two-axis solar tracking system is the systems that have the ability to move in horizontal and vertical movement due to searching the maximum incident light area. The problem usually occurred to the single axis is unable to provide further movement when the solar panel is shadowed by the tree, building and etc PSM086 Design and Development Pressure Mat for Evaluate Ulcer Condition PSM087 Design and Development Screen Printed Machine for Thick Film Sensor Fabrication PSM088 Design and Implementation of Blood Pressure Measuring and Oximetry (Android Based) PSM089 Design and Optimization of Outer Rotor Field Excitation Flux Switching Motor for Electric Vehicles PSM090 PSM091 PSM092 PSM093 Design and simulation of 2-axis MEMS micromirror Design and simulation of MEMS fingerprint microstructure Design and simulation of MEMS resonator Design and Simulation of OFDM modem using Matlab Simulink PSM094 Design and study of patch antenna on extended ground plane PSM095 Design of a non-invasive blood glucose monitor PSM096 Design of Multi-Band Microstrip Antenna using Double U-Shaped Structure PSM097 Design Optimization of Hybrid Excitation Flux Switching Motor with 0.4kg PM for HEVs PSM098 Design Study of Hybrid Excitation Flux Switching Motor for Electric Vehicles PSM099 DESIGNING A 802.15.4/Zigbee DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM PSM100 Designing low-energy building using Energy-10 software PSM101 Designing Simulation Platform for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) using MATLAB This project is aim to develop pressure mat to evaluate ulcer condition at leg area. The pressure is mapping out from the capacitance reading that embedded inside the mat. The input for this system is set to be 8 channel. Each channel represent one location. The pressure image is mapping out in Personal computer. This project is aim to develop screen printed machine to fabricate thick film sensor. The rubber blade shall be move in one direction to transfer paste on The screen onto substrate. The deposition of paste thickness will investigate using surface profiler. Mobile health or better known as m-health is the use of mobile devices for medical practices. M-health technology involving mobile telecommunications infrastructure in providing medical services to patients. Mobile technology has developed very rapidly, where the cost of mobile devices getting cheaper, so that mobile devices become an essential tool of communication and information technology. Android devices is a major preoccupation in the development of the general computing world. Android is a comprehensive device, because Android based Linux operating system that has the ability to regulate the use of the device, memory and process. The device is designed to measure oximetry and blood pressure. Communication between the device and a mobile phone using Bluetooth communication is embedded in a mobile phone that uses the Android operating system 2.3.3. The function of this mobile phone to display the data after the measurement, the transmit data that has been measured by SMS, e-mail and a local database. The device is designed to be used personally or to support the use of the hospital This research deals with design and optimization of the proposed 12S-14P outer-rotor field excitation flux switching motor for electric vehicle applications. The design restrictions and specifications of the proposed motor are similar with DC motor used in Honda Jazz Hybrid. The target power and torque are 10kW and 78Nm/ 80kg-m, respectively. Design optimization using deterministic optimization method will be conducted to the proposed motor until the target performances are achieved. No synopsis Microstrip patch antenna can be found in many telecommunication applications. The electrical properties however are sensitive to the physical dimensions of the substrate. Some small changes may affect the performance significantly (towards better or worst). In this project, student is required to design a conventional planar patch antenna on a microstrip substrate. The mathmetical calculation together with the simulation results will first be compared and evaluated. Once succesfull, some modification will be made to the original design by introducing extended ground plane feature. The effect of this new feature on the antenna’s performance will be thoroughly study. At the end, student should be able to draw some conclusions from the study. The proposed new design of planar antenna on extended ground plane will be prototyped and the measurement results will be compared with the simulations The broadband characteristic of a microstrip patch antenna is one of the critical requirements particularly for wireless communication systems [1] – [2]. Various methods have been studied to improve the bandwidth performance of micrsotrip lines such as double layer structure as well as the use of suitable substrate materials on printed micstorip lines [3] – [4]. However, the complicated structure of the double layer structure limits its flexibility of the antenna design which results in the trade-off between the bandwidth performance and the loss efficiency. In this work, the resonance behavior of microstrip patch antenna based on Double U-shaped configuration in the C-band is proposed to be studied to investigate the feasibility of realizing dual frequency operation with miniaturised configurations. Two approximate equations for the operating frequencies the microstrip patch antenna will be derived by analyzing the surface current distribution on the microstrip patch. The design simulation results of a microstrip patch antenna with two asymmetric double U-shaped slots for dual-frequency operation are also presented. The success of realizing dual frequency ant Hybrid excitation flux switching synchronous machine (HEFSSM) has several attractive features compared to interior permanent magnet synchronous machines (IPMSM) conventionally employed in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). Among various types of HEFSSM, the machine with both permanent magnet (PM) and field excitation coil (FEC) on the stator has the advantages of robust rotor structure together with variable flux control capabilities that make this machine becoming more attractive to apply for high-speed motor drive systems. This study deals with an investigation into the design possibility and parameter optimization study of 12S-14P HEFSSM for traction drives in HEV. The research target is to design a machine with reduced amount of rare-earth magnet, a maximum torque of 210Nm, a maximum power of more than 123kW, and a maximum power density of more than 3.5kW/kg. Extensions in speed and torque ranges are chosen for optimization aims. The deterministic design approach will be conducted to treat ten design parameters in an effort to achieve the target performances. It is expected that the designed HEFSSM with 0.4kg PM is able to get much higher pow In this research, a design of a 12S-14P hybrid excitation flux switching motor (HEFSM) having competitive torque, power, speed range and efficiency of the interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) employed in the 2009 Toyota Prius will be investigated. The maximum torque of 207 Nm is needed up to the knee speed of 2768 r/min, while the output power of 60 kW is required in the speed range from 2768 r/min to 13900 r/min. The torque and power versus speed characteristics of the final design HEFSM will be compared with IPMSM used in Prius 2009. The 802.15.4/Zigbee would be very useful in implementing the wireless sensor network on a large scale. Developing the system could be accomplished with ease by using a low cost WSN development system. The student need to plan and design a development system specifically using microchip set of integrated circuits. This project is focusing on designing low-energy building using Energy-10 software program and identifying the advantages of this building. Student needs to design a simulation framework for WSN using Matlab. The design involved developing a wireless data communication protocol which can be used in WSN and Wireless Ad Hoc network. Also the design may enhance the process of packet transmission through a multi hop configuration. The Matlab code to implement the simulation framework is already partly available. The student need to design one communication protocol and a few propagation path loss models. Finally the communication protocol and the path loss model could be integrated into the platform and further studies on protocol and path loss model performance can be done. PSM102 Development of 5 DOF Robot Arm PSM103 Development of 6 DOF Robot Arm PSM104 Development of a control circuit for electrowetting on dielectrics PSM105 Development of a LED based spectrometer PSM106 Development of a software to automatically measure contact angle of a sessile drop PSM107 Development of a temperature acquisition system with feedback control PSM108 Development of an image acquisition software and spectrophotometer PSM109 Development of Assistive Device for Monitoring Application PSM110 Development of Auto-Detection Single Radio FM Signal in Multi-Locations PSM111 Development of color notification tool for color blindness person PSM112 PSM113 PSM114 DEVELOPMENT OF DENOISING METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGE Development of ear pulse oximetry Development of edge detection method for ultrasound image PSM115 Development of Electrical Energy Control Using Conditional Access PSM116 Development of Emergency Vehicles Passes System on Traffic Lighted Roads PSM117 Development of Heart Rate Variability Measurement Device PSM118 DEVELOPMENT OF IMAGE ENHANCEMENT METHOD FOR NIGHT-VISION IMAGE PSM119 Development of Image Enhancement System for Rainy-Vision Image PSM120 Development of Lightning Surge Arrester for Domestic Application This project concerns on the development of 5 DOF Robot Arm in the simulation environment and experimental work. Simulation study needs to be done in Matlab/Simulink and the model of the robot need to be done using Solid Work. After completed the simulation study, the robot arm needs to be constructed. Finally the robot in simulation and real robot are needed to be controlled by using Real-time toolbox (Matlab). This project concerns on the development of 6 DOF Robot Arm in the simulation environment and experimental work. Simulation study needs to be done in Matlab/Simulink and the model of the robot need to be done using Solid Work. After completed the simulation study, the robot arm needs to be constructed. Finally the robot in simulation and real robot are needed to be controlled by using Real-time toolbox (Matlab). The principle of electrowetting (EWOD) has wide application in microfluidic device. A droplet of water can be transported by the change of force due to the change of electrostatic charge. This project proposed a two-electrode system to transport a droplet of fluid in a single step. Spectrophotometer is widely used in analyzing the content of chemical based on the absorption of a particular light spectrum. An educational spectrophotometer based on the LEDs is proposed here. LEDs of different spectrum will be used as light source and the changes of the light will be detected by a TCS3200 color sensor. The emitting light will pass through a test solution and the interaction of the white light with a solution characterize the spectrum response of the solution. The LED control circuit and the color sensor will be interface to a controller and the output will be displayed to a LCD Surface tension is characterized by the contact angle of a sessile drop on a surface. Mouse control for measurement of contact angle of a sessile drop has been developed. However, the measurement is highly subjected to the skill of the user. Therefore, an image processing is proposed for this project to develop an algorithm which is able to detect the contact angle of a sessile droplet on a surface automatically. Proportional Integration (PI) control is a well known feedback control concept. This concept will be applied in controlling a chamber temperature detected via LM35 attached to a peltier. Therefore to increase or decrease the current drive to a peltier. Spectrophotometer is widely used in analyzing the content of chemical based on the absorption of a particular light spectrum. An educational spectrophotometer based on the diffraction grating is proposed here. The tungsten and white light source can be used to generate wide spectrum of light when passing through a diffraction grating. The interaction of the white light with a solution characterize the spectrum response of the solution. The detected color spectrum can be captured by a USB microscope or a video camera to be processed in a customized image acquisition software. The spectrum changes can be quantified by the intensity changes of the spectrum. This project requires student to propose a wear safety device or an assistive device that can increase individual safety in performing their daily activities. A person is born with different abilities and difficulties. Therefore, a portable device that can detect color and determine the color is might be beneficial for colorblind people. Intelligent Energy Saving System is important especially in the area of heavy electrical energy consumption. It can be used in places where proper lighting is very important such as libraries, class rooms, halls etc. These places are normally well illuminated with many lamps. When people are not present at a reading place the lighting can be made OFF and when they are present, the lighting made ON. All these can be done through by dimming circuit and Passive Infra-red (PIR) sensor. Any person enters to the monitored area, the PIR sensor activates and sense the person, gives signal to the micro controller. The Infrared energy emitted from the living body is focused by a Fresnel lens segment. Then only the PIR sensor activates. After sensing the person LDR checks the light intensity of the monitored area, whether it is bright or dark. Depending on the LDR output, the lamp may be ON / OFF by using Dimmer circuit. By using this system also we can adjust the temperature of the air-conditioner according to the room temperature measured by Thermostat, which is connected to the micro controller. To display the room temperature of PIR mode operation we a Emergency cases need fast action and attention. Emergency vehicles such as ambulance, police and fire brigade are facing problem to deal with such cases if they are caught in traffic light. The situation gets worse when there are many stalled vehicles preceded because of red traffic light. This system is designed to ease the flow of traffic by turning the light to green when they approach the junction. The project is about developing a device to monitor the heart rate variability (HRV) based on a pulse sensor. HRV is an indicator of variation in the time interval between heartbeats that could predict some physiological phenomena. This project will focus on image enhancement for weather degraded image especially during rain. The image will be taken from in-vehicle camera mounted at the windscreen. Image will be captured during rain. The captured image will be an input to perform the raindrop detection and removal on the image. The outputs will the image with no raindrop. The project aims to develop the surge arrester model (using small electrical / electronic / PIC components) that capable to reduce the lightning overvoltages magnitude that typically damaging the domestic household electrical equipment. The model will be tested in the HV Lab using the TERCO lightning set for verification. PSM121 PSM122 PSM123 PSM124 PSM125 Development of Online System Development of Online System Development of Online System Development of Online System Development of Online System PSM126 Development of portable gas sensing system using in-house gas sensor PSM127 Development of portable thin film characterization system: electrical characteristic PSM128 Development of Posture Correction Device to Improve the Standing Posture. PSM129 Development of Power Electrical Wheelchair Kit PSM130 Development of real-time traffic light signal detector system PSM131 Development of Self-Care (at Home) Treatment Device for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome PSM132 Development of smart LED street-lighting The main objective of this project is to design a LED lighting system (prototype) that can adjust to darkness automatically. The proposed system has great potential to reduce CO2 emissions and save money PSM133 Development of Solar Cell Efficiency Monitoring System The aim of this project is to develop a monitoring system of efficiency of solar cell. The system will notify the user/researcher if the efficiency of solar cell drop under certain level. Arduino is used as a microcontroller PSM134 Development of the Smart Data Acquisition System for Domestic Digital Power Meter PSM135 Development of Venous Occlusion Device for Skin Blood Flow Monitoring System PSM136 Development of Wearable Obstacle Detector PSM137 Diagnose the effect of power electronics load on power system quality by using PSCAD/ETAP PSM138 Digitally Delayed Phase Angle Controlled Three-phase Variable AC Supply PSM139 PSM140 document and to learn the implementation of UPS system at the FKEE complex in UTHM Dual Band and Dual Polarized Microstrip Patch Antenna PSM141 Economic evaluation for hydropower plant design PSM142 Effect of different precursors of Flourin-doped Tin Oxide (FTO) film prepared by Spray Pyrolysis Deposition (SPD) technique PSM143 Effects of tower structures on electric field distributions around outdoor insulators PSM144 Efficient reconfigurable of 3-D Bioorthogornal using Distributed Arithmetic Technique for Medical Image Compression PSM145 Electrical characterization of ZnO/Cu2O heterojunction deposited by sol-gel method PSM146 Electrical conductivity optimization of indium-doped titanium dioxide (In-TiO2) by sol-gel method. Developing a kit for transforming standard manual wheelchair into power electrical wheelchair. The Kit should be easy to plug in into the standard manual wheelchair. Focusing on the mechanical aspect (e.g., motor selection, battery and chassis development) The propose system should be able to detects traffic light and identify its light signal in real time. Then, the propose system should be able to notify the color to a user through an audio. This is a part of smart grid project that wish to enable the user to know the concurrently power loading or tariff in their house; directly through the personal computer for financial plan. The project objective is to develop a comprehensive smart data acquisition system that can be safely connected to the domestic power meter. The system works by reading and storing the necessary power value (e.g. current and voltage) over the specific time period. The stored data can be downloaded to the personal computer that equipped with GUI that enabling the data being read (as in the form of waveforms, tariff etc.). The candidate will work with the currently available domestic power meter, building a comprehensive data acquisition storing system using the National Instrument DAQ reader that capable to be connected to the pc. A GUI will be built enabling the data to be processed and read as power waveforms and tariff. The project is about developing a device for providing partial occlusion of a vessel with a range of occlusion pressure from 50 to 100mmHg. It will be used during the measurement of skin blood flow. The project is about developing a wearable device to detect obstacles based on ultrasonic sensors that could translate distance from the obstacle to pressure. The closer the obstacle, the greater the pressure. Survey shows that presently power electronic loads are of 10-15%. It is expected to increase by 70% in next ten years. The effect of such loads on power system quality is unavoidable to help in pre-planning of false tripping and supplying quality waveforms. Power quality is also affected by power factor correction as well as motor starting. Types of phase angle delay control SCR circuits are aplenty in the market but are normally of the analogue type. This project utilizes a preset counter and a free running frequency generator. The square waveform from the frequency generator is to feed into the counter. Upon reaching the set count, the counter will produce a trigger output to ‘on’ the SCR. Three separate counters are required for controlling the three-phase supply. Uninterruptible supply of electricity is very important in many areas such as laboratories in universities, computers centres, telecommunications, bank, and hospital. This project reports the implementation of the UPS system employed in the FKEE complex building that provide electrical supply to air-cons, lightings and bench power supply. In the event that the TNB supply is interrupted the battery-powered three-phase inverter shall take over the task of supplying the power to the laboratories meanwhile the standby gen-set shall start ready to take over in about 10 minutes’s time. Student need to identify ALL the interlinked circuitry, ratings of all accessories involved and detailed drawings and facilities including Automatic Mains Failure (AMF) switchboard function, Automatic Diesel engine starting, automatic changeover switch at resumption of TNB supply and so on The study provides a detailed study of the design of probe-fed Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna to facilitate dual polarized, dual band operation. The design parameters of the antenna have been calculated using the transmission line model and the cavity model. For the simulation process CST electromagnetic software which is based on Finite Element Method (FEM) has been used.The effect of antenna dimensions and substrate parameters on the performance of antenna have been discussed. The antenna has been designed with embedded spur lines and integrated reactive loading for dual band operation with better impedance matching. The designed antenna can be operated at two frequency band with center frequencies 7.62 (with a bandwidth of 11.68%) and 9.37 GHz (with a bandwidth of 9.83%). The objectives of this project are to design a hydropower plant and evaluate the generation cost of the develop plant. The presence of various protective devices attached to the outdoor insulators greatly affects the distribution of electric field over the insulator surface. This project aims to investigate how these attachments could influence the electric field profile that lead to flashover phenomenon. Field modeling and computations are to be carried out using FEM software. PSM147 Electricity generation from solar PSM148 Electronic Abacus PSM149 Electronic based Automatic Gain Control for Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier This topic will need the student to discuss on the advantages of using solar compared to other sources. Other than that, the concept of solar generation system must also be illustrated and explained. Students must also be prepared to search for further discussions on the topic Optical signal power fluctuations at the input of erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) can result in amplifier gain variations, especially in saturated amplifiers. In WDM networks, these fluctuations can be severe as the number of channels may vary with time, making the gain dependent on the transmitted channel number. Several techniques can be used to automatically control the gain of EDFAs, either based on all-optical, electronic or hybrid techniques. In this project, an electronic based automatic gain control for EDFA is going to be studied, designed, characterized, and proposed. An adaptive array antenna has gained much attention because of its ability to significantly increase the performance of wireless systems by automatically eliminating surrounding interferences. An analog adaptive beamforming, electronically steerable passive array radiator (ESPAR) is proposed. This kind of antenna provides a very simple architecture that has a significantly lower power dissipation and fabrication cost. The direction of maximum gain is controlled by varying the load reactance. In this project, a 7-element ESPAR is proposed which consists of one active element and surrounded by six passive elements. The cost function for this antenna is cross correlation coefficient. Steepest descent algorithm is used to maximize the cross correlation coefficient. PSM150 ELECTRONICALLY STEERABLE ANTENNA USING STEEPEST DESCENT ALGORITHM PSM151 Electroplating power supply PSM152 Embed Patient's Information on Medical Image PSM153 Energy Harvesting Through The Vibrations Of Roadways PSM154 Enhancement of Power Quality in Distribution System Using D-STATCOM PSM155 Enhancement of Ultrasound Medical Images for Edge Detection from Phantom Experiment PSM156 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Power Monitoring and Control PSM157 Evaluate the effect of reactive power (power factor) correction through capacitors on power system quality on distribution side on by using PSCAD/ETAP PSM158 Exploring transmission usage evaluation for transmission pricing using Distribution Factors The research aim is to investigate the distribution factors method in order to evaluate the contribution of each user in the line power flows for transmission pricing methodology method PSM159 Fabrication of cuprous oxide (Cu2O) films by thermal annealing process. PSM160 PSM161 Fabrication of pillar array for blood microseparator Fabrication of tip microstructure using compensation technique PSM162 Fabrication of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures using sol-gel method. PSM163 Finger photoplethysmography (PPG) for health monitoring applications PSM164 Fire fighting robot PSM165 PSM166 PSM167 PSM168 PSM169 PSM170 PSM171 PSM172 Foot Rehabilitation Device FPGA Application FPGA Application FPGA Application FPGA Application FPGA Application FPGA Based Patient Monitoring System FPGA-based Sleep Apnea Screening Device for Home Monitoring This is a power supply intended to support controlled operation of a plating system. The system is of general use for anodization and other batch electrochemical processes. The supply should draw power from a standard three-phase 415V, 50 Hz wall plug, and should produce controlled (and isolated) dc output power. The output power should be adjustable between 0.5 and 50 V dc. The load should have an adjustable current limit up to 100 A This project requires students to examine algorithms that can be used to enter patient information in medical images belong to them. Inclusion of this information should not interfere with the image that is important for the purpose of diagnosis of a doctor. Renewable energies are gaining popularity in recent decade. One of the sources is by harvesting the energy from the kinetic movement from piezoelectric materials. This project required student to perform numerical studies in determining the performance of energy harvesting through the vibrations of piezoelectric installed by the roadways The enhancement of voltage sags, harmonic distortion and low power factor using Distribution Static Compensator (DSTATCOM) with LCL Passive Filter in distribution system is proposed. The model is based on the Voltage Source Converter (VSC) principle. The D-STATCOM injects a current into the system to mitigate the voltage sags.LCL Passive Filter was then added to D-STATCOM to improve harmonic distortion and low power factor. The simulations were performed using MATLAB SIMULINK version R2007b Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is being intensively studied and used in optical transmission system. EDFA is attractive because it can process optical signal at any speed and operate around the lowest loss region of optical transmission fiber. Fully developed EDFA should have electronic part, instead of optical gain, for power monitoring and control. In this project, EDFA power monitoring and control card is aimed to be developed. The card is going to be integrated with an android device. Survey shows that presently power electronic loads are of 10-15%. It is expected to increase by 70% in next ten years. The effect of such loads on power system quality is unavoidable to help in pre-planning of false tripping and supplying quality waveforms. Power quality is also affected by power factor correction as well as motor starting. This work aims to develop finger photoplethysmography for safe and continuous monitoring of health parameters such as heart rate and blood oxygen saturation, SpO2. Despite the fact that finger photoplethysmography, which employs LED light source of red and infrared wavelengths, is widely available in the market, accurate estimation of blood oxygen saturation at SpO2 of less than 80% remains a challenge. Accurate measurement of SpO2 is of importance in diagnosis and treatment planning as it is often used to indicate oxygen carrying capability of red blood cells. This work will investigate viability of heart rate and SpO2 estimation using an optical system employing a single white LED light source and light detection to overcome this problem. Fire Fighting Robot is based on an imaginary fireman rescuing the victims and extinguishes the fires. The Fire Fighting Robot will move around the field to rescue the victims as much as possible and extinguish the fire in three minutes. The robot is considered completing the task when the robot returns to the starting zone. This project aims to participate in the Malaysia International Robot Competitions (MIRoC). PSM173 GPS system in Air Craft Landing in Malaysia PSM174 Grid connected inverter system PSM175 Grid connected, parallel inverter system PSM176 PSM177 GSM Based digital notice board GSM based home security system PSM178 Haptic & Voice interface for Guiding a Blind People to Control a Wheelchair PSM179 Harmonics injection and the impacts to power network PSM180 Heating Assessment In Zno Microvaristor Nonlinear Grading Material PSM181 PSM182 PSM183 PSM184 Hydrodynamic Energy Harvesting System IDENTIFICATION OF MATERIAL SURFACES FEATURES USING CANNY EDGE DETECTION AND FFNN In this project, the student should be able to understand the usage of GPS system in the air craft landing. Since this method haven’t been implemented yet in Malaysia, it’s the students task to highlight the importance and usage of this system in Malaysia Aviation Industry for both military and civilian area. Can introduce on how this application can be applied in this part of world. Also determine the effect of ionosphere to GPS positioning in this application. The combination of components or elements in order to form the grid connected inverter system will be the focus of this topic. Effects of each component or element must be discussed thoroughly. Students must also be prepared to search for further discussions on the topic Student must make a research on the parallel connected inverter system. i.e. what is the different between a single and a parallel connected system, what is the advantage of having a parallel connected system, how is it connected to the grid, and so on Design a proper interface for a blind people to get a feedback about the environment during maneuvering the wheelchair. Investigation about the proper verbal instruction to enable the blind people to drive the wheelchair into the goal location easily and naturally. Various types of harmonic and their impacts to power quality need to be discussed thoroughly. Ways or methods in order to reduce or eliminate each type of the harmonics must be listed and explained. ZnO Microvaristor materials are now being used in many high voltage applications e.g. cables and machine windings to control electrical stress in critical areas. Flow of current within the material generates undesirable heating which may cause other problem such as aging. Therefore, this project aims to understand and analyse the heating performance of the material. Thermal modeling study is to be performed using computer simulation package. The proposed title requires student to perform experiment works on hydrodynamic energy harvesting system. Assortments of concerns need to be considered in the development of proper conceptual design for the energy harvesting system such as the fluid speed range, hardware arrangement, power measurement algorithm and etc. These technical parameters should be measured and tested first in order to validate its practical value. A fundamental knowledge on the types of hydrodynamic energy harvester and its characteristics are prerequisite to this project. Besides, student is expected to conduct various investigational works in this project and thus good hands-on skill is required. The final output of this project will be an appropriate energy harvesting system based on the fluid flow concept. In this reseach project, an efficient subsystem using photo image, Canny Edge Detection and Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) will be developed. The subsystem is expected to predict absorption coefficients of material surfaces in a classroom that are fundamental requirements in various prediction methods of the room’s acoustic properties. DSLR with MICRO Nikkor 105mm 1:2.4 lens will be employed to capture image data of six textures of material surfaces: walls, doors, floors, windows, ceilings, and carpets. To consummate the parameters stipulation, the subsystem determines the absorption coefficient of the material surfaces using Canny Edge Detection, which is extracted from the photo image along with FFNN. A series of data collection and measurement will be conducted to predict the correlation coefficients. In this reseach project, an efficient subsystem using photo image, Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and FeedForward Neural Network (FFNN) will be developed. The subsystem is expected to predict absorption coefficients of Identification of Material Surfaces Features using Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) material surfaces in a classroom that are fundamental requirements in various prediction methods of the room’s acoustic properties. DSLR with MICRO Nikkor 105mm 1:2.4 lens will be employed to capture image data of six textures and FFNN of material surfaces: walls, doors, floors, windows, ceilings, and carpets. To consummate the parameters stipulation, the subsystem determines the absorption coefficient of the material surfaces using gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) with Haralick’s coefficient, which is extracted from the photo image along with FFNN. A series of data collection and measurement will be conducted to predict the correlation coefficients. Identification of Material Surfaces Features using Zernike Moments based on Area and FFNN PSM185 IDENTIFICATION OF MATERIAL SURFACES USING PHOTO IMAGES PSM186 PSM187 PSM188 PSM189 PSM190 IMAGE PROCESSING IMAGE PROCESSING Induction Machine Analysis 1 Induction Machine Analysis 2 INTERACTIVE SYSTEM PSM191 Investigation Electrical Withstand Stress of Malaysian-Based Palm Oil Under Influence of Lightning Impulse Overvoltages PSM192 Investigation of aluminum (Al) electrodes conductivity by different deposition technique on organic film. In this reseach project, an efficient subsystem using photo image, Zernike moments and Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) will be developed. The subsystem is expected to predict absorption coefficients of material surfaces in a classroom that are fundamental requirements in various prediction methods of the room’s acoustic properties. DSLR with MICRO Nikkor 105mm 1:2.4 lens will be employed to capture image data of six textures of material surfaces: walls, doors, floors, windows, ceilings, and carpets. To consummate the parameters stipulation, the subsystem determines the absorption coefficient of the material surfaces using Zernike moments, which is extracted from the photo image along with FFNN. A series of data collection and measurement will be conducted to predict the correlation coefficients. In this reseach project, an efficient subsystem using photo image and Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) will be developed. The subsystem is expected to predict absorption coefficients of material surfaces in a classroom that are fundamental requirements in various prediction methods of the room’s acoustic properties. DSLR with MICRO Nikkor 105mm 1:2.4 lens will be employed to capture image data of six textures of material surfaces: walls, doors, floors, windows, ceilings, and carpets. To consummate the parameters stipulation, the subsystem determines the absorption coefficient of the material surfaces using gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) with Haralick’s coefficient and Zernike moments, which is extracted from the photo image along with FFNN. A series of data collection and measurement will be conducted to predict the correlation coefficients. Some experimentation works will be conducted in the HV Lab using the TERCO Lightning Impulse set to testing the various types / conditions palm oils with the standard lightning impulses. The tests seek the behaviour of electrical withstand ability these oils in comparing with the commercially available insulation oil (e.g. transformer oil). PSM193 Investigation of different modulation techniques for MIMO systems PSM194 Investigation of High Dimensionality Carrierless Amplitude-Phase (CAP) for Access Networks PSM195 Investigation Of Surface Designs For Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) PSM196 Investigation of the solution temperature on n-Cu2O thin film for homojunction solar cell application PSM197 Japanese to English Mobile Translator PSM198 Lithium Based Battery Management System PSM199 LONG TERM IONOSPHERIC CHARACTERISTIC OBSERVATIONS AT AN EQUATORIAL IGS STATION PSM200 Low order harmonics reduction using PI current controller PSM201 Low Power NoC Architecture through Clock Gating Technique for Mesh-based NoC Topology PSM202 Low Profile Antenna for WLAN/Bluetooth Application PSM203 Mapping the Total Electron Content over WARAS UTHM PSM204 PSM205 PSM206 MicroController Application MicroController Application Microprocessor Application PSM207 Microstrip low Pass filter design and study on extended substrate PSM208 Mobile Control Car Security System PSM209 Mobile system for monitoring measurements in hypertensive patients PSM210 Model Predictive Control to predict remaining useful life of machine failure Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems have been extensively studied in context of wireless communication system, which promising the both increased capacity and link level reliability. In this project the comparison of different modulation techniques such as carrierless amplitude and phase (CAP), discrete multitone (DMT) and quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) will be carried out to see the performance. Carrierless amplitude-phase (CAP) modulation is an advanced modulation format that has been proposed for copper wires as early as 1975 [1]. CAP is a multi-dimensional and multi-level signal format employing orthogonal waveforms; one for each dimension. These waveforms are obtained from frequency domain filters with orthogonal impulse responses.In its principle, it is akin to quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) in the sense that both CAP and QAM supports multiple levels and modulation in more than one dimension. Contrary to QAM, however, CAP does not require the generation of sinusoidal carriers at the transmitter and the receiver. Additionally, CAP supports modulation in more than 2 dimensions, provided that orthogonal pulse shapes can be identified [2]. This possibility of multidimensional modulation makes CAP an attractive modulation format to support multiple services for next generation access networks and in-home networks [3]. The main objective of this project is to investigate this modulation technique in optical fiber system for access networks. This project require student to analyze the performance of CPV with different surface designs and structures. It may involve numerical analysis as well as computer simulations. At the end of the study, student is expected to propose the best surface design for CPV which can be applied in practice. The first Phase of this project consists of developing a method for locating the text area in the image using Adaboost Cascade or Background Subtraction Method. Once the text area is found, the system translates the text into English using OCR software. The translated English text will be overlaid on top of the Japanese word. Porting the system into Smartphone application ( Android). Possible application : For tourists used when visiting a non-English country, as a guidance to read station name, ingredients in food, ATM machine, signboard, or to fill up a form This work is to establish a super charger aiming to properly charge depleted lithium based battery such as lithium polymer, lithium ion, and lithium metal hydrate. Conventional battery chargers do not charge depleted battery properly. These subsequently led to poor charging of the cell and eventually wear the battery out faster than the specified by the manufacturer. The use of rechargeable battery is a good way to protect the environment as opposed to alkaline batteries where they are used only once. However, without the proper charging of the rechargeable lithium battery, the lifetime of the battery is severely shortened, hence waste is also imminent. Hence, this work is to produce a super charger to monitor the charging parameter such as voltage, charging current, temperature and etc. Ionospheric characteristic, namely the Total Electron Content (TEC) of a specific IGS station will be observed for one complete solar cycle. The behavior of TEC in relation to parameters, for example solar activity and geomagnetic indices, throughout the period will be analysed accordingly. Students must be able to discuss about the low order harmonics. i.e. what range of frequency does it occur, the effects, and so on. Besides, the student must also be able to describe the PI current controller and prove that the PI controller can reduce the low order harmonics injection to the grid Clock gating is one the main methods to optimize power consumption in many architectures. Specific to Network on Chip (NoC) architecture in Multiprocessor System on Chip (MPSoC) design, power consumption from the NoC is becoming increasingly important and thus solutions are needed to combat this issue. Through adopting clock gating method within the NoC architecture, it could help reducing its power consumption by shutting off unused logic blocks. This project consists of several parts: 1) understanding the clock gating method to be adopted to the router architecture 2) implementing the router architecture with clock gating technique 3) evaluating the performance/power of the implemented NoC architecture using ASIC design tools. The microstrip-fed WLAN/Bluetooth antenna is very easy to manufacture, low-cost, and can be easily integrated within the printed circuit boards (PCBs) of notebook computers, mobile terminals, and other wireless networking equipment. The main objective of this project is to design a microstrip-fed antenna that is small, low-profile, planar, and suitable for WLAN/Bluetooth. The low band of the antenna covers IEEE 802.11bg (Bluetooth) and the high band covers IEEE 802.11a. In this project, the student should be able to understand the Total Electron Content (@TEC) in the ionosphere and its presence over the Malaysia region. Then, should be able to identify the method to model the TEC using the GPS observation data using data from WARAS. After that, the mapping should be done in order to see the variation of TEC diurnally. Low pass filter can be realized on microstrip substrate. The physical dimensions of the substrate play a very important role in determining the electrical properties of a circuit. In this project, student is required to design a conventional planar low pass filter on a microstrip substrate. The mathmetical calculation together with the simulation results will first be compared and evaluated. Once succesfull, some modification will be made to the original design by introducing extended ground plane feature. The effect of this new feature will be thoroughly study. The optimized design will be prototyped and the measurement results will be compared with the simulations. The project is about to design and implementation of the “system to monitor blood pressure in hypertensive patients using mobile technologies.” This system allow the patient to be in contact with the physician on duty, and who in turn carefully monitor the patient with each of the measurements taken by the affected person, with that, the doctor, could make a diagnosis and establish treatment to follow. The system is based on the Java platform for small-capacity devices and technologies for the web. Mobile software is able to establish http connections to the server and a cell phone sms, store and display patient records graphically. The server application is responsible for storing and displaying data in a clear medical advice. It guarantees an effective diagnosis. PSM211 Modeling of Reflectarray Antenna based on Phase Error Characterization PSM212 Modelling the phase scintillations of the GPS signals over the WARAS during low solar activity PSM213 Module of different modulation techniques using DSP kit PSM214 Monitoring of Stress Effect on Physiological Signals using FPGA PSM215 Multi-Channel All-Optical Regeneration in a Fiber PSM217 Multi-level inverter using Adruino for energy distribution PSM218 Multi-topology NoC Implementation for Energy Efficient MPSoC Architecture PSM219 Neutral point inverter control usign Adruino for circuit protection PSM221 PSM222 PSM223 In this project, the student should be able to identify the meaning of phase scintillations in the GPS signal context. Then, the student should be able to extract the phase scintillations value from the GPS observation data from WARAS. The student should be able to analyze the phase scintillations during low solar activity. Finally, the modeling will be done and the student can use the model to prove the effect of phase scintillations to GPS signals. The main objective of this project is to build the module of different modulation technique such as QPSK, DMT, OFDM or CAP for the purpose of teaching in the classroom. Conventional Air Heating Unit (AHU) releases cooled air at a particular part of the room while the hot air is being drawn into the AHU from another part of the room. This type of air conditioning is very inefficient and wastes a lot of energy MULTI ZONE AIR HEATING UNIT (AHU) CONTROLLER FOR ENERGY SAVING USING WIRELESS because a particular part of the room is cooled more than the other. A multi zone AHU controller has wireless sensor TECHNOLOGY located at many part of the room particularly when humans are normally located. This system shut of zones with no human and activates zones with human. This prevents unnecessary wastage that is preventing the cooling of an empty part of the room. PSM216 PSM220 Reflectarrays have evolved to mitigate the disadvantages of complex manufacturing and high fabrication cost associated with either the parabolic reflector or the conventional phased array antennas [1]. Due to these advantages over other parabolic and phased array antennas, reflectarrays are considered as one of the suitable choice for space applications such as deep space exploration and earth remote sensing. The significant constraint of the reflectarray is its limited bandwidth performance which is due to the differential path delays across the aperture of the periodic structure of reflectarray antenna [2]-[4]. In this work, an optimized reflectarray elements operating at C-band are proposed to be modeled in order to reduce phase error which results in narrow bandwidth performance of reflectarray antenna. A mathematical model based on Finite Element Method will be developed to realize a progressive phase distribution of resonant elements across the reflectarray antenna. The capability of controlling the frequency tuning and hence the phase of adjacent elements across the reflectarray configuration offers the antenna design to be employed for dynam NoC’s Power Optimisation through Packet Compression Technique All-optical regeneration based on Kerr nonlinearity in a fiber that works ultrafast can be used to refine the shape of high bit-rate signals. However, simultaneous all-optical multi-channel regeneration in a nonlinear fiber is quite challenging to realize due to nonlinear interchannel crosstalks. Very few techniques for multi-channel regeneration have been proposed so far. In this project, some proposed techniques for multi-channel regeneration in a fiber are studied, and then, their strengths and weaknesses are identified. A new idea/technique is expected to be proposed. In this project, the single phase inverter will be cascaded to behave as a three phase inverter for the grid connection. In this the multi inverter will be controlled using Adruino for the current control with the PLL operation system for syncronization For multiprocessor architecture, performance and power consumption are affected by the chosen Network on Chip (NoC) topology to be implemented. Multi-topology NoC implementation can be used to optimize power consumption by combining different NoC topologies in a MPSoC architecture to find the right balance between performance and power consumption. By evaluating various performance metrics for each NoC topology as well as application specific characteristics, MPSoC architecture performance can be optimized. This project comprises several parts: 1) evaluate the performance of each NoC topology for hardware implementation 2) finding the best combination of NoC topologies according to a specific target application 3) evaluate the implemented multi-topology NoC architecture using ASIC design tools. In this project the unbalanced current at the inverter will be controlled using adruino controller board. This current needs to be controlled in order to make sure this current will not distroyed the inverter. Here, the current controller will be used for the controller technique Network on Chip (NoC) is the primary technology for future multi/manycore processor architecture for both high performance systems as well as for power-constrained embedded systems especially in portable devices. For both applications, power is one of the major issues that must be addressed to reduce cooling cost and have longer battery life. As NoC traffic is among the main contribution of power consumption, this project will investigate power optimisation NoC architecture implementation through packet compression technique to be able to reduce the packet transmission numbers. The project consists of several parts: 1) finding/evaluating the best compression method that suits the packet transmission profile 2) implementing the chosen compression method 3) evaluating the implemented design using ASIC design tools. Noise Removal using 4th Order Partial Differential Equation: An Efficient Hardware Accelerator Approach Nuclear Reactor dismantle Simulator Numerical study of dielectric-rod antenna’s radiation and propagation properties for ground penetration radar applications (GPR) PSM224 Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting System PSM225 Optical tomography for medical purpose PSM226 Optical tomography using DSPIC microcntroller In this project, student is required to perform numerical study on a dielectric-rod antenna for the application of ground penetrating radar (GPR) system, using the BoR-FDTD technique. The purpose is to investigate and gain better understanding of its propagation and radiation properties when applied to the GPR. The study includes characterizing the antenna properties due to the presence of the object, the type (metal, dielectric, etc..), the size and the distance of the object from the soil surface. At the same time the permittivity of the soil will also be varied to simulate several different humidity conditions and soil types. Ocean wave is a huge energy resource that can be harvested as it is feasible available all the time. The proposed title requires student to develop a systematic ocean wave energy harvesting concept. Several technical considerations need to be focused in developing the energy harvesting system such as the construction problem between the energy conversion device and its storage, conversion efficiency, easy-assess factor etc. A fundamental knowledge on ocean wave energy together with its practical application are some of the basic requirements to this project. Besides, student is expected to perform data collection and design works in this project and thus good hands-on skill is required as well. The final output of this project will be a conceptual design of ocean wave energy harvesting system that is proficient to be used as small-scale energy generation. This project will find the suitable method to detect the jaundice problem that always occur in baby ( 2 weeks ). Students need to develop transmitter and receiver circuit that suitable to detect the jaundice problem in baby born. Nuvoton microcontroller is latest technology in embedded technology. DSPIC microcontroller will be used to make pulse to the transmitter unit. It also will be used to convert analogue to digital in receiver side. Both transmitter and receiver unit is very important in optical tomography to detect any solids that occur between both part. PSM227 Optical tomography using FPGA PSM228 Optical tomography using Nuvoton microcontroller This project will upgrade the optical tomography system that is built using PIC microcontroller. All the hardware part has been prepared and students only need to continue on software part. Here, students need to develop image reconstruction using FPGA and display the image at the LCD that attached to the FPGA Nuvoton microcontroller is latest technology in embedded technology. Nuvoton microcontroller will be used to make pulse to the transmitter unit. It also will be used to convert analogue to digital in receiver side. Both transmitter and receiver unit is very important in optical tomography to detect any solids that occur between both part. The application of Bees Algorithm (BA) technique is applied to find the optimal sizing of Static Var Compensator (SVC) in order to achieve the power system economic generation and dispatch. Installing an SVC at appropriate locations in the network can help stabilize weak system and minimize line losses. In order to determine the size of SVC, an optimization technique will be required if the location has been identified. While finding the optimal sizing, SVC operation limits are taken as constraints in the operation. Furthermore, their investment costs are also considered. Simulation results validate the efficiency of this approach in minimizing the overall system cost function, which includes generation cost and the investment cost of the SVCs. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm, IEEE26 Bus system is used. This project require student to analyze the performance of CPV with different shape and design. It may involve computer simulation as well as experimental work. At the end of the study, student is expected to propose the best CPV design which can be applied in practice. PSM229 Optimal Sizing of Static VAR Compensator Using Bees Algorithm for Cost Minimization PSM230 Optimization of Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) designs PSM231 Optimum laptop solar charger using boost converter This project consists of software and hardware development. The software is required to develop PWM signal and MPPT controller algorithm using C++ and DSP programming. The hardware is required to develop boost converter circuit for laptop charger PSM232 Optimum laptop solar charger using interleave boost converter This project consists of software and hardware development. The software is required to develop PWM signal and MPPT controller algorithm using C++ and DSP programming. The hardware is required to develop interleave boost converter circuit for laptop charger. PSM233 Paintball Robot PSM234 Performance Analysis of Field Excitation Flux Switching Motor with Various Slot-Pole Numbers PSM235 Plastic bottle classification using K-nearest neighbourhood algorithm PSM236 Polarization-independent regeneration using fiber-optic parametric amplifier PSM237 Portable insole pressure mapping PSM238 Pyroelectric Energy Harvesting System PSM239 Quantification of Breast Cancer Diagnosis: An Efficient Hardware Accelerator Approach PSM240 Real Time Voice Transmission Using OFDM Modulation PSM241 Real-Time Patient Monitoring using 802.15.4/Zigbee Protocol PSM242 Recognition of Watermelon Size using Hu Moment Technique Paintball Robot is a game based on an actual paintball competition. The basic rule of the games is roughly same with the paintball competition. This project aims to participate in the Malaysia International Robot Competitions (MIRoC). This research deals with performance analysis of field excitation flux switching motor with various slot-pole numbers. The motor consists of DC-field excitation as their main flux sources and armature coil placed on the stator, while the rotor consists of single piece iron core. The analysis will be conducted with various slot-pole combinations such as 12S14P, 18S-21P and 24S-28P respectively. Initially, armature coil test analysis will be conducted in 2D-FEA using JMAG Designer ver. 2012 to indicate the armature coil configuration. Then the flux characteristics, induced voltage, maximum torque and power of each design motor will be analyzed and compared at various DC field excitation current Fiber-optic based regeneration is a solution to refine optical signals that have been distorted during transmission. Fiberoptic parametric amplifier (FOPA) can be used as a regenerator when operating in saturation regime. However, FOPA is highly sensitive to polarization states of interacting waves. A possible approach for achieving polarization insensitivity FOPA is to use two orthogonally polarized pump waves having different wavelengths. The scheme was successfully proved in pump-undepleted regime. However, in the regeneration, in which pump is depleted, it is not obvious if the polarization independency is retained by this technique. This project is aimed to analyze the FOPA based regeneration theoretically and numerically. Measurement of biomechanical signals could reveal vital information on the physiological state of a patient.Insole pressure and its mapping during static stance and normal walking are reported to be one of the key indicators during gait assessment. This research investigates insole force and pressure variables with film-type sensors. A mechatronic system will be designed and developed for this purpose. The proposed title requires student to develop a thermal based energy harvesting system. The major intention of this project is to come out a conceptual study on pyroelectric system for energy generation purpose. Some technical considerations should be placed in mind such as the energy conversion material and the storage element of the harvested energy. These contemplations should be tested and verified in order to certify its practical value. A fundamental knowledge on energy harvesting and energy conversion concept are prerequisite to this project. Besides, student is expected to conduct various experimental works in this project and thus good hands-on skill is required. The final output of this project will be a feasible pyroelectric energy harvesting system. The project focuses on the transmission of digital data between two nodes using Orthogonal Frequency Division multiplexing. The nodes are computer based. Speech will be captured from the sound card and will be compressed using open source SPEEX codec. The compressed audio bit stream will be modulated using 16QAM modulation and will be combined with IFFT algorithm to form OFDM signal. The receiver at the other end will receiver the signal and will demodulate the signal. The demodulated data will be decoded by the SPEEX decoder and will be played by the sound card This project creates a portable device implementing 802.15.4 / Zigbee wireless technology to monitor conditions of a patient continuously. The patient condition acquired by the portable device transmit to the server wirelessly and can be accessed over the internet. The student need to decide on what kind of performance measurement need to be taken. The propose system should be able to detects traffic light and identify its light signal in real time. Then, the propose system should be able to notify the color to a user through an audio. PSM243 Reconfigurable parallel plate capacitor for material characterizations PSM244 Reconstruction of Ultrasound 3D Image from Phantom Experiment Mimicking Heart for Preliminary Study PSM245 Rectenna Design for Wireless Power Transmission (i) PSM246 Rectenna Design for Wireless Power Transmission (ii) PSM247 PSM248 PSM249 Renewable Energy 1 Robot Design Robot Design PSM250 Rope Climbing Robot PSM251 PSM252 Router Gating Technique for Energy Efficient NoC-Based MPSoC Architecture Self Powered Temperature and Humidity Data Logger One of the techniques to characterize the electromagnetic properties of a material is using the parallel plate capacitor technique. In the project student is required to design a parallel plate capacitor system that can be used to characterize EM properties for any solid materials. The gap between the plates must be made adjustable so that material at various sizes can be measured easily. This system may only be used for characterizing material in low frequency. The objective of the project is to design and develop a rectified-fractal antenna for the wireless power transmission. The work focuses on the design of antenna and others RF-to-DC conversion circuit that is suitable for hand held radio unit. The basis of the design is the printed dipole rectenna that is available in the literature. A set of modified rectenna configuration will be designed. This is a compact rectenna with high efficiency energy conversion. All parts of the rectenna are integrated in single unit to provide a feasible size application. They are will be simulated using electromagnetic simulation software. Performances in the form of one and two port scattering parameters will be analysed. It will be fabricated and tested. The results obtained will be compared with theory, simulation and available literature. (2 students needed) The objective of the project is to design and develop a rectified-fractal antenna for the wireless power transmission. The work focuses on the design of antenna and others RF-to-DC conversion circuit that is suitable for hand held radio unit. The basis of the design is the printed dipole rectenna that is available in the literature. A set of modified rectenna configuration will be designed. This is a compact rectenna with high efficiency energy conversion. All parts of the rectenna are integrated in single unit to provide a feasible size application. They are will be simulated using electromagnetic simulation software. Performances in the form of one and two port scattering parameters will be analysed. It will be fabricated and tested. The results obtained will be compared with theory, simulation and available literature. (2 students needed) Rope Climbing Robot is a based on an imaginary of the military physical training. The Rope Climbing Robot will carry a dart and climbs up to 3 meters of rope. This project aims to participate in the Malaysia International Robot Competitions (MIRoC). Multiprocessor architecture has emerged due to the power/speed limitation of uniprocessor architecture approach. Moving towards higher number of processing cores, inter-processor communication aspect is becoming more important than the computational aspect from power/performance point of view especially for hundred or thousand cores architecture. There is a need to find solutions to reduce NoC power consumption and one of the approaches is by shutting down unused routers at any given time. However, performance trade-off must be taken into consideration such that there is only limited impact on the performance. This project consists of several parts: 1) identifying target application for the MPSoC system 2) mapping application to the NoC architecture 3) evaluating the power/performance of the proposed architecture using ASIC design tools. In this project, electronic temperature and humidity data logger will be developed. The developed data logger should be able automatically collect data on a 24-hours basis for monitoring purpose. The collected data can be used for future purpose. Application: greenhouses, medical facilities, museums, document storage/archive facilities and laboratories. PSM253 PSM254 PSM255 PSM256 Simple method for CuO thin film deposition. Simulation Studies of Differentiated Services Simulation Studies of Internet over Satellite Network Simulation Studies of Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) Protocols Differentiated services or DiffServ is a computer networking architecture that specifies a simple, scalable and coarsegrained mechanism for classifying and managing network traffic and providing quality of service (QoS) on modern IP networks. DiffServ can, for example, be used to provide low-latency to critical network traffic such as voice or streaming media while providing simple best-effort service to non-critical services such as web traffic or file transfers. Student will be asked to create a simple DiffServ network scenario in NS-2 which consists of at least a source node and a group of receiver nodes. The source node will transmit packet streams to the destination node within a specified simulation time. Common network performance parameters like delay, loss ratio, throughput and DiffServ statistic will be calculated, analyzed and plotted into graphs. Satellite communications emerge from technological advances in the field of telecommunications. Satellites are now incorporated with fixed terrestrial network to provide better services and applications to users. The satellite networks are much more preferable for data communications due to the available greater bandwidth and ease of mobility. Modern broadband, internet networks, telephony and television take advantage from these characteristics in providing better services directly to customers. In addition, satellite network provides greater signal coverage which makes it suitable for worldwide broadcasting services. Student will be asked to create a simple satellite network scenario in NS-2 which consists of at least a ground-satellite source terminal and a ground-satellite receiver terminal. The source node will transmit packet streams to the destination node within a specified simulation time. Common network performance parameters like delay, loss ratio and throughput will be calculated, analyzed and plotted into graphs. A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a self-configuring infrastructureless network of mobile devices connected by wireless. Each device in a MANET is free to move independently in any direction, and will therefore change its links to other devices frequently. Each must forward traffic unrelated to its own use, and therefore be a router. The primary challenge in building a MANET is equipping each device to continuously maintain the information required to properly route traffic. Such networks may operate by themselves or may be connected to the larger Internet. Student will be asked to design a few set of simple MANET network scenarios based on different set of MANET routing protocols which consists of at least a source node and a receiver node. The source node will transmit packet streams to the destination node within a specified simulation time. Comparison will be made based on the routing strategy adopt by each MANET protocol set and common network performance parameters like delay, loss ratio and throughput will be calculated, analyzed and plotted into graphs. PSM257 Simulation Studies of Multicast Routing In computer networking, multicast is the delivery of a message or information to a group of destination computers simultaneously in a single transmission from the source. Copies are automatically created in other network elements, such as routers, but only when the topology of the network requires it. Multicast is most commonly implemented in IP multicast, which is often employed in Internet Protocol (IP) applications of streaming media and Internet television. In IP multicast the implementation of the multicast concept occurs at the IP routing level, where routers create optimal distribution paths for datagrams sent to a multicast destination address Student will be asked to create a simple multicast network scenario in NS-2 which consists of at least a source node and a group of receiver nodes. The source node will transmit packet streams to the destination node within a specified simulation time. Common network performance parameters like delay, loss ratio and throughput will be calculated, analyzed and plotted into graphs. Voice over IP (VoIP, or voice over Internet Protocol) commonly refers to the communication protocols, technologies, methodologies, and transmission techniques involved in the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The steps involved in originating a VoIP telephone call are signaling and media channel setup, digitization of the analog voice signal, encoding, packetization, and transmission as Internet Protocol (IP) packets over a packet-switched network. On the receiving side, similar steps (usually in the reverse order) such as reception of the IP packets, decoding of the packets and digital-to-analog conversion reproduce the original voice stream. Even though IP telephony and VoIP are used interchangeably, IP telephony refers to all use of IP protocols for voice communication by digital telephony systems, while VoIP is one technology used by IP telephony to transport phone calls. Student will be asked to create a simple VoIP communication network scenario in NS-2 which consists of at least a caller and a receiver network element. The caller-receiver communication is based on a specific human conversation model within a PSM258 Simulation Studies of Voice over IP PSM259 Simulation Study of Acoustic Field for Ultrasound System using Field II PSM260 Smart meters for demand side Management PSM261 Smart Phone Operated Robot PSM262 Standalone cooling system solar power converter This project consists of software and hardware development. The software is required to develop PWM signal and controller algorithm using C++ and DSP programming. The hardware is required to develop DC to AC converter circuit for cooling system supply. PSM263 Standalone refrigerator solar power converter This project consists of software and hardware development. The software is required to develop PWM signal and controller algorithm using C++ and DSP programming. The hardware is required to develop DC to DC converter circuit for refrigerator supply PSM264 PSM265 PSM266 Study of Four-Wave Mixing Bandwidth in Optical Fiber Focusing on controlling small mobile robot using smart phone and DTMF chip. Reading sensor’s attributes (orientation, gps coordinate, and image) for navigation requirement. Cost effective teleoperated robotics system Four-wave mixing (FWM) is one of nonlinear effect that is relevant in optical fiber. FWM in fiber can be utilized for several important applications, such as parametric amplification, wavelength conversion, phase conjugation, ultrafast optical sampling, optical switching, entangled photon-pair generation, and all-optical regeneration. However, FWM bandwidth is limited and hard for applications at high bit rate and many channels. In this project, the behaviors of FWM bandwidth is studied and analyzed. Consequently, techniques to increase the FWM bandwidth are expected to be proposed and tested. Study the effect of bath temperature on electrochemical deposit-n-ZnO thin film application to pn heterojunction Study the effect of bath temperature on electrochemical deposit-p-Cu2O thin film application to homo- and heterojunction solar cell PSM267 Surface morphology and electrical property of Flourin-doped Tin Oxide (FTO) film prepared by Spray Pyrolysis Deposition (SPD) technique. PSM268 Surface morphology and electrical property of Platinum thin film prepared Spray Pyrolysis Deposition (SPD) and sputtering method. PSM269 Surface morphology and structural property of rutile phased TiO2 film prepared by hydrothermal process for Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). PSM270 Surface morphology and structural property of rutile phased TiO2 nanoflowers prepared by hydrothermal method for Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) PSM271 The expected outcome of this project is a prototype of smart meter that can manage demand in a typical domestic house. The control-board in the smart meter should be able to switch on and off an electrical appliances subject to certain ‘objective’ function. This is to reduce system peak demand. Switchable Bow-Tie Antenna (i) PSM272 Switchable Bow-Tie Antenna (ii) PSM273 Synch Machine Analysis 1 The objective of the project is to design and develop a tunable bow tie antenna for the UWB communication system. The work focuses on the design of antennas with wide-to-narrow frequency reconfigurable feature that is suitable for smart radio application. The basis of the design is the patch’s bow tie antenna that is available in the literature. Two sets of modified antenna configurations will be designed. These are compact bow-tie antenna and tunable bow-tie antenna. Printed broadband balun will be incorporated to provide broadband application. All the antennas will be simulated using electromagnetic simulation software. Performances in the form of one and two port scattering parameters will be analysed. Each optimum configuration will be fabricated and tested. The results obtained will be compared with theory, simulation and available literature. (2 students needed) The objective of the project is to design and develop a tunable bow tie antenna for the UWB communication system. The work focuses on the design of antennas with wide-to-narrow frequency reconfigurable feature that is suitable for smart radio application. The basis of the design is the patch’s bow tie antenna that is available in the literature. Two sets of modified antenna configurations will be designed. These are compact bow-tie antenna and tunable bow-tie antenna. Printed broadband balun will be incorporated to provide broadband application. All the antennas will be simulated using electromagnetic simulation software. Performances in the form of one and two port scattering parameters will be analysed. Each optimum configuration will be fabricated and tested. The results obtained will be compared with theory, simulation and available literature. (2 students needed) PSM274 Synch Machine Analysis 2 PSM275 System integration of PV on Malaysia distribution network PSM276 The EMI effect on PCB Design PSM277 The Study of Mitigation of Noise Coupling on RF Cable using EBG structure The cost and benefit analysis of integrating PV system on Malaysia distribution network will be the main subject of this investigation. This includes the technical impact of PV and estimation of avoidance network investment cost under different future development scenarios. The effects of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI) are particularly troublesome when designing printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies for high-speed military and aerospace systems. The components on a PCB may be digital and analog. Transmission lines connecting the two different sections are used to transmit signals back and forth. Unfortunately, as frequency increases and signals are enhanced, noise related to those frequencies is also enhanced, thus creating EMI and RFI. Electronic systems are expected to operate normally within a given environment without internally or externally radiating excessive amounts of electromagnetic energy. In this state, they are called electromagnetically compatible (EMC). However, when electromagnetic energy is radiated adversely it becomes EMI, disrupts circuit performance and makes overall PCB operation less optimal, falling short of original design goals. The two main sources of electromagnetic radiation from a PCB are radiation from signal loops and circuit tracks. Therefore, the objective of this project is to design a PCB layout and analyze an EMI effect the PCB. From the advent of digital convergence, mobile electronic devices have various wireless digital communication services. To grant fast wireless data transmission, the clock speed of mobile devices increases rapidly up to gigahertz level. This trend boosts electromagnetic noise generation from mobile devices, and consequently, worsens the electromagnetic interference (EMI) problem. In addition, radio frequency interference (RFI), which means electromagnetic noise makes interferences in the radio frequency bands within a wireless device, is a serious bottleneck in obtaining receiving performance. Even though the shielded coaxial cable is usually adopted for RF signal transmission, it is frequently experienced that the receiving performance of WLAN changes according to the small difference of the cable position [1]. Noises radiated from high-speed signals or power/ground planes on LCD and main boards can induce the common-mode current on the outer shield conductor of the coaxial cable. Owing to the outer shield conductor normally being cut off at the feeding point of the antenna, the common-mode current can flow on the inner surface of the shield conductor, which in turn can in PSM278 TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSES OF GPS RECEIVER DATA PSM279 TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSES OF Internatinal GNSS Service (IGS-GPS) DATA PSM280 TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSES OF IONOSONDE DATA PSM281 Toddler Monitoring System Tracking Region of Interest for Estimation of Carotid Arterial Wall Motion from B-mode Ultrasound Image PSM282 PSM283 TRANSPARENT SHARED APERTURE ANTENNA FOR WLAN APPLICATION PSM284 UHF Rectenna for RF Energy Harvesting PSM285 Variable Three-phase power supply with Cosine-control technique PSM286 Vehicle over speed control system PSM287 PSM288 VHDL Simulation and Modeling using Altera DE2 Board VHDL Simulation and Modeling using Altera DE2 Board PSM289 VHDL Simulation and Modeling Flood Prediction using Altera DE2 Board PSM290 VHDL Simulation and Modeling Smart Grid using Altera DE2 Board PSM291 VHDL Simulation and Modeling Speech Recognition using Altera DE2 Board PSM292 Vision Guided Robot Navigation PSM293 Visual Reality Simulator 1 (safety) PSM294 Water Quality Monitoring System Based on Zigbee PSM295 PSM296 Web Based Management System 1 (user) Web Based Management System 2 (product) The GPS receiver data (including the Total Electron Content (TEC), amplitude scintillation, and phase scintillation) of Parit Raja for ionospheric quiet and disturbed conditions will be analysed using wavelet analysis technique. This analysis will enable detection of time-varying amplitudes and frequencies of oscillations present in such time series. The student must be able to use Matlab (or similar software) to summarise the finding. The Total Electron Content (TEC) times series of ionospheric quiet and disturbed conditions two IGS stations of different latitudes will be analysed using wavelet analysis technique. This analysis will enable detection of disturbances in TEC. 3. The student must be able to use Matlab (or similar software) to summarise the finding. The ionosonde data (including the critical frequency and virtual height) of Parit Raja for ionospheric quiet and disturbed conditions will be analysed using wavelet analysis technique. This analysis will enable detection of time-varying amplitudes and frequencies of oscillations present in such time series. The student must be able to use Matlab (or similar software) to summarise the finding. No synopsis alternative to existing energy resources. In the wireless power transmission, one of the most important components is the rectifying antenna, called rectenna. It is composed by a receiving antenna and a circuit to convert radio frequency to direct current (RF-DC) [1-3] for realizing an efficient wireless power transmission system, the rectenna must be designed with high RF-DC conversion efficiency. Our focus will be in harvesting the electromagnetic energy specifically Radio Frequency RF. Energy harvesting is the process of capturing minute amounts of energy from one or more of these naturally occurring energy sources, accumulating them and storing them for later use. Even though RF signals carry low energy, the power that can be received from them could be high enough to run a low power sensor or a low power circuit. Therefore, the objective of this project is to design and model an ultra wideband rectenna in order to extract (harvest) UHF signal. The realized antenna will be connected to a rectifying circuit to converts the input RF power into DC ou A normal phase delay control of SCR circuits is non-linear. The movement of the control knob does not correspond to the output voltage magnitude. However, if cosine–control is to be used, there is a direct proportion between the turning angle of the control knob and the magnitude of the output voltage. This project uses cosine control in controlling the output of a three-phase supply. The aim of the project is to limit the speed of a vehicle to the prescribed speed limit along the specified path. Aim to locating goal position and navigate towards the goal.Using kinect camera to estimate egomotion. Investigating the use of fast features for detection of good points in the scene ( shi & tomasi, FLANN, SURF etc) as a point reference The application of WSN for a water quality is composed of only 2 sensor nodes with a network capability that can be deployed for an adhoc or continuous monitoring purpose. The parameters involved in the determination such as the pH level, turbidity and temperature is measured by the sensors that send the data to the base station or monitoring room. PSM297 PSM298 PSM299 Wireless handphone solar charger Wireless Mesh Networking using 802.15.4/Zigbee Protocol Wireless Sensor for healthcare applications PSM300 Zero Standby Current for Home Appliances PSM301 ZigBee-Based Wireless Homecare System Implementation This project consists of software and hardware development. The software is required to develop PWM signal and controller algorithm using C++ and DSP programming. The hardware is required to develop DC to DC converter circuit. The student need to plan and execute a performance evaluation of mesh networks based on XBee modules, in terms of packet delay and received signal strength (RSSI). It is required to design a mesh network ( may be up to 4 nodes) using zigbee modules including the software operating system. Then it would be required to evaluate the performance for both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments in buildings and in open space. The results of this study may be useful for building wireless sensor networks and communication networks of mobile robots where the communication distances between nodes are greater than the single-hop range and hence communication between nodes requires multi-hop transmissions. Anyone who has ever been in the hospital knows how cumbersome and uncomfortable electrocardiogram monitors can be. With all of the wires connecting the nodes attached to the patient to the monitor, patients are limited in their movements and hospital staff need to transport the wired equipment from one patient to another. This project was focused on increasing the mobility of patients and making things easier for hospital staff by designing a wireless ECG medical monitor. Wireless nodes monitoring patients' vital signs were able to transmit the information to computers, eliminating the previous constraints of wired ECG monitors. Energy saving has attracted much concern of the “green community” in the past few decades. Switching off the unused home appliances is one of the common actions taken these days. Unfortunately, an obvious amount of standby current is still available and thus contributing to the energy wastage. The proposed title requires student to design an appropriate zero standby current circuit for residential application. Several considerations need to be focused in designing the energy saving scheme such as the cut off time, safety factors, cost factor etc. These technical parameters should be measured and tested first in order to validate its practical value. A fundamental knowledge on standby current together with its major characteristics is prerequisite to this project. Besides, student is expected to carry out design and experimental works in this project and thus good hands-on skill is required. The final output of this project will be an appropriate zero standby current that is proficient to be used in home appliances. The traditional home care system was sensor independent or used RS232 connector to link with computer to manage the vital signs. These biosensors were fixed at some place and less mobile. The project is to use ZigBee based wireless devices to integrate the biosensors to monitor the vital data such as body temperature, blood pressure, and blood sugar at anytime and anywhere. The proposed home care system not only can popup alerts if the vital data is abnormal but also can send the email and simple message to notice the default family members.