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A novel feature engineering algorithm for air quality datasets

10.11591/ijeecs.v19.i3.pp1444-1451
Raja Sher Afgun Usmani , Wan Nurul Farah Binti Wan Azmi , Akibu Mahmoud Abdullahi , Ibrahim Abaker Targio Hashem , Thulasyammal Ramiah Pillai
Feature engineering (FE) is one of the most important steps in data science research. FE provides useful features to be used later in the study. Due to climate change, the research focus is moving towards air quality estimation and the impacts of air pollution on health in Malaysia. Malaysia has 66 air quality monitoring (AQM) stations, and the air quality data for research is provided in an excel worksheet format by the Department of Environment, Malaysia. The data generated by the AQM stations is in a raw custom format, and it is virtually impossible to clean and engineer this data manually due to the sheer number of files. Hence, we propose a novel feature engineering algorithm to transform and combine this data into a useable format. The results show that the proposed feature engineering algorithm was able to efficiently extract and combine the hourly and daily values for pollutant and meteorological variables in useful row format. This algorithm will help all the researchers using the data from the AQM station in Malaysia as well as other countries using the same AQM station. The implementation of the feature engineering algorithm is also available to use at GitHub (https://github.com/rajasherafgun/featureengineeringaq) under AFL-3.0 license.
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Page: 1444-1451
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Forward kinematic analysis of Dobot using closed-loop method

10.11591/ijra.v9i3.pp153-159
Javier Dario Sanjuan De Caro , Mohammad Rahman , Ivan Rulik
Dobot is a hybrid robot that combines features from parallel and serial robots. Because of this characteristic, the robot excels for is reliability, allowing its implementation in diverse applications. Therefore, researchers have studied its kinematics to improve its capabilities. However, to the extent of our knowledge, no analysis has been reported taking into consideration the closed-loop configuration of Dobot. Thus, this article presents the complete analytical solution for the forward kinematics of Dobot, considering each link. The results are expected to be utilized in the development of a dynamical model that contemplates the dynamics of each element of the robot.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 153-159
Publish at: 2020-09-01

A weighting system to build physical layer measurements maps by crowdsourcing data from smartphones

10.11591/ijra.v9i3.pp211-219
Hosam Alamleh , Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani
Mobile devices can sense different types of radio signals. For example, broadcast signals. These broadcasted signals allow the device to establish a connection to the access point broadcasting it. Moreover, mobile devices can record different physical layer measurements. These measurements are an indication of the service quality at the point they were collected. These measurements data can be aggregated to form physical layer measurement maps. These maps are useful for several applications such as location fixing, navigation, access control, and evaluating network coverage and performance. Crowdsourcing can be an efficient way to create such maps. However, users in a crowdsourcing application tend to have different devices with different capabilities, which might impact the overall accuracy of the generated maps. In this paper, we propose a method to build physical layer measurements maps by crowdsourcing physical layer measurements, GPS locations, from participating mobile devices. The proposed system gives different weights to each data point provided by the participating devices based on the data source’s trustworthiness. Our tests showed that the different models of mobile devices return GPS location with different location accuracies. Consequently, when building the physical layer measurements maps our algorithm assigns a higher weight to data points coming from devices with higher GPS location accuracy. This allows accommodating a wide range of mobile devices with different capabilities in crowdsourcing applications. An experiment and a simulation were performed to test the proposed method. The results showed improvement in crowdsourced map accuracy when the proposed method is implemented.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 211-219
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Performance evaluation of a single mode optical fiber tip sensor for glucose detection

10.11591/ijeecs.v19.i3.pp1407-1414
Nazirah Mohd Razali , Puteri Nadiah Syamimi Said Ja'afar , Sumiaty Ambran
Glucose must be carefully regulated to ensure its safety and quality. Nowadays, chemists often face difficulty to measure glucose concentrations as the current methods for the analysis are expensive and require complex procedures which have reduced the interest among chemists to use these techniques. This study evaluated the performance of a single mode optical fiber tip sensor for glucose detection. The sensing mechanism mainly depends on the Fresnel’s reflection that occurs at the flat fiber tip region while the sensor performance was evaluated based on its sensitivity and linearity. The sensor was tested in glucose solution at different concentration range; high range (0% - 14%), medium range (0% - 1.4%) and low range (0% - 0.14%). The sensor showed a good performance when sensing the glucose solution at high and medium concentration range with strong linearity of more than 90% and an average sensitivity of 0.0979 dBm/% and 0.1019 dBm/%, respectively. However, the low concentration range showed no significant changes during sensing. Based on the findings obtained in this study, the optical fiber tip sensor has the potential to be utilized for glucose detection and suitable for high and medium concentration range measurement.
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Page: 1407-1414
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Robust control and optimized parallel control double loop design for mobile robot

10.11591/ijra.v9i3.pp160-170
Ahmed J. Abougarair , Ali S. Elmolihi
Robots have been used in many applications in the past few decades. Moreover, due to high nonlinearity behavior of these systems, an optimal and robust control design approaches have been considered to stabilize and improve their performance and robustness. The uncertainties of the time delay on the output states of the mobile robot system have a significant influence on the system nominal performance. As a result, the work becomes here to address the influence of these uncertainties on the robot system performance. In order to achieve this objective, the nonlinear controller via sliding mode control (SMC) is designed by selecting a suitable sliding surface dynamics in which the considered robot displacement and tilt angle are sliding on. The lyapunov function is considered here to accomplish  the design of the sliding control signals for robot stabilization. Furthermore, the stability of the considered system is guaranteed due to convergence of  the lyapunov functions into zero when the state trajectories tend to desired set points. In addition, we consider the trajectory tracking and stabilization of TWBMR system using parallel double loop PID controllers whose controllers gains are tuning via linear quadratic regulator (LQR) approach.  Finally, to demonstrate the effectiveness of SMC and PID-LQR design methods,  the comparison is carried out when the nominal and uncertain conditions.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 160-170
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Prototype development of tethered underwater robot for underwater vessel anchor release

10.11591/ijra.v9i3.pp196-210
Ezeofor Chukwunazo Joseph , Georgewill Oyengiye Moses
Tethered underwater robot (TUR) for underwater vessel anchor release is presented. In off-shore oil and gas enviromnment, there has been series of reported cases on stuck vessel anchors after mooring operations and divers are sent to release these anchors for the vessels to be in motion. The use of divers to perform such function is very risky because of human limitation and some divers have been reported dead on the process due to high pressure underwater or being attacked by underwater wide animals. This has caused very serious panic to the vessel owners and hence, this work is aimed to develop TUR that would be used by the vessel operators instead of divers to release the stuck anchor without loss. The underwater robot system comprises of three basic sections namely graphical user control interface (GUCI) that would be installed in the operator’s laptop, the WiFi LAN router for network connection, and TUR system hardware and software. Each of these sections was strictly designed. Various high-level programming languages were employed to design the GUCI and code the interface buttons, robot controller program codes etc. The implementation carried out and the prototype system tested in the University of Port Harcourt’s swimming pool of 6m depth for validation. The robot performed extremely good in swimming and release of constructed anchor underwater.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 196-210
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Air cloud algorithm for diminution of active power loss

10.11591/ijra.v9i3.pp190-195
Kanagasabai Lenin
In this work, air cloud (AC) algorithm is used to solve the optimal reactive power problem. Clouds shape in numerous ways. Convective clouds are created when moist air is warmed and expand into floating. Air raises haulage water vapour and within it expands and gets cooled as it goes. As the temperature and pressure of the air diminish, its saturation point – the equilibrium level of evaporation and condensation – is reduced. Every x is one cloud droplet, and qualitative characteristic of one cloud is explained by the three digital character (Ex, En, He), droplets number n, where Ex (Expected value), En (Entropy) and He (Hyper entropy) of one cloud determine centre position of cloud, cover range of cloud and thickness of cloud equally. Projected AC algorithm has been tested in standard IEEE 14, 57, 300 bus systems and simulations results show the better performance of the proposed algorithm in reducing the real power loss.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 190-195
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Deriving the system equations of unbalanced two-phase induction motor

10.11591/ijra.v9i3.pp171-177
Hany Ibrahim Shousha , Abdelsamie B. Kotb
As there is no system driven especially for the two-phase induction motor fed from unbalanced two-phase supply yet, so we start for derivation the system equations for the said motor to be generally used even for the balanced or unbalanced two-phase supply. In this paper, we will derive a system equation starting from the sequence equivalent circuit for the forward and backwards equivalent circuits, then we will re-arrange the equations with some mathematical assumptions which will lead us to the new system equations. first for the voltage equations then for the current equations and finally for both power and torque equations. Moreover, we will put an example which will cover all cases with specific values and relations charts.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 171-177
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Miniaturized ultra-wideband coplanarwaveguide lowpass filter with extended stop band

10.11591/ijeecs.v19.i3.pp1415-1419
Elmahjouby Sghir , Ahmed Errkik , Jamal Zbitou , Otman Oulhaj , Ahmed Lakhssassi , Mohamed Latrach
In this article, we propose a novel design of large rejected band of miniaturized ultra wide band (UWB) of a planar CPW low pass filter “LPF” based on the use of periodic elements of ‘e’ slots. The goal of this work is to develop a new structure of Low Pass Filter with the following criterion: Miniature, Compact and Easy for Fabrication. The Miniaturization of this structure is achieved by entering the 'e' slot  in etching area in the ground of CPW line, to save the standard gap of the adapted coplanar line. The designed coplanar LPF is a compact filter having a large band pass and extended stop band, with the possibility to associate easily with others RF and microwave planar circuits. The entire area of the proposed structure of CPW LPF is 14.3x20 mm2.
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Page: 1415-1419
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Temperature effect of electronic nose sampling for classifying mixture of beef and pork

10.11591/ijeecs.v19.i3.pp1626-1634
Sinarring Azi Laga , Riyanarto Sarno
Strong demand and strong price of raw foodstuffs like beef was commonly used in conventional markets by beef dealers to commit fraud in order to gain larger income. The fraud has been in the form of combining beef and pork. In Indonesia, this has been a issue of food health in recent years. Via scent, some food safety concerns can be expected. By using electronic nose that is equipped with electrochemical and air sensors  such as temperature sensors, strain, and humidity to find the pure beef or mixed beef. According to its selectivity, the sensor can detect gas to make small icurrents that are the result of chemical sensor and gas interactions with oxygen .In this study, the classification method k-NN, SVM, Naïve Bayes, and random forest was used in 5 different meat variations with a ratio of 0%, 10%, 50%, 90% and 100% with temperatures of -22°C, room temperature, and 55°C. The results showed the effect of temperature on increasing the accuracy, which is at a temperature of -22°C. The lower the temperature, the more stable the value obtained by electronic nose. At a temperature of -22°C, the method that produces the highest accuracy is the Random Forest method.
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Page: 1626-1634
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Faulty antenna detection in a linear array using simulated annealing optimization

10.11591/ijeecs.v19.i3.pp1340-1347
Navaamsini Boopalan , Agileswari K. Ramasamy , Farrukh Hafiz Nagi
Sonar, radar and communication systems solely depend on antenna arrays for signal attainment. These arrays are capable of producing directional signals which can be steered in a certain direction. Faulty elements in an array will result in distorted radiation pattern with increased sidelobe levels.  Far-field faulty antenna detection is necessary due to the near field repairing at complex systems like spacecraft. This paper proposes simulated annealing (SA) optimizing method to find the faulty element’s location in a linear array. In this study, a Chebyshev array is presented with the SA optimization method to detect faulty element location with a random permutation of failure locations tested. This method can successfully detect faulty antenna in a linear array. Even though, this method is developed for linear array it can easily be adapted to a planar array.
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Page: 1340-1347
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Parallel processing using big data and machine learning techniques for intrusion detection

10.11591/ijai.v9.i3.pp553-560
Alaeddine Boukhalfa , Nabil Hmina , Habiba Chaoni
Currently, information technology is used in all the life domains, multiple devices produce data and transfer them across the network, these transfers are not always secured, they can contain new menaces invisible by the current security devices. Moreover, the large amount and variety of the exchanged data cause difficulties related to the detection time. To solve these issues, we suggest in this paper, a new approach based on storing the large amount and variety of network traffic data employing Big Data techniques, and analyzing these data with Machine Learning algorithms, in a distributed and parallel way, in order to detect new hidden intrusions with less processing time. According to the results of the experiments, the detection accuracy of the Machine Learning methods reaches 99.9 %, and their processing time has been reduced considerably by applying them in a parallel and distributed way, which proves that our proposed model is effective for the detection of new intrusions.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 553-560
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Age-based facial recognition using convoluted neural network deep learning algorithm

10.11591/ijai.v9.i3.pp424-428
Julius Yong Wu Jien , Aslina Baharum , Shaliza Hayati A. Wahab , Nordin Saad , Muhammad Omar , Noorsidi Aizuddin Mat Noor
Face recognition is the use of biometric innovations that can see or validate a person by seeing and investigating designs depending on the shape of the individual. Face recognition is used largely for the purpose of well-being, despite the fact that passion for different areas of use is growing. Overall, face recognition innovations are worth considering because they have the potential for broad legal jurisdiction and different business applications. It is widely used in many spaces. How it works is a product of facial recognition processing facial geometry. The hole between the ear and the good way from the front to the jaw are the main variables. This code distinguishes the highlight of the face that is important for your facial separation and creates your facial expression. Therefore, this study gives an overview of age detection using a different combination of machine learning and image processing methods on the image dataset.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 424-428
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Improvement of cluster-based WSN protocol using fuzzy logic

10.11591/ijeecs.v19.i3.pp1540-1547
Jong-Yong Lee , Daesung Lee
A wireless sensor network is a collection of wireless nodes with sensor devices that can collect data from the real world. This is because sensor nodes usually use limited-powered batteries. Therefore, if the battery on the sensor node is exhausted, the node will no longer be available. If the battery on some nodes is discharged, the sensor network will not work properly. To maintain sensor network system, there are many wireless sensor network protocols to increase energy efficiency of nodes. One of the energy-efficient methods is cluster-based protocols. These protocols divide the sensor fields into clusters and send and receive data between nodes. Thus, depending on how the cluster is constructed, the network's lifetime may be reduced or increased. Cluster-based protocols cannot always be optimal cluster configurations. These problems have been improved using fuzzy logic. In general, fuzzy logic is used to elect cluster heads based on node residual energy, node concentration and node centrality. However, it is possible that nodes close to each other at a high density area are elected as cluster heads. In this paper, we propose a method to consider the number of adjacent cluster heads instead of Node Concentration to improve the problem.
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Page: 1540-1547
Publish at: 2020-09-01

Illuminance levels based on different sky conditions by considering daylight harvesting

10.11591/ijeecs.v19.i3.pp1219-1225
Nik Sahidah Nik Ahmad , N. H. Radzi , Mohd Noor Abdullah
Daylight harvesting systems (DHS) offer the most effective and significant to reduce energy consumption. In the lighting system, there are various problems which include waste of energy consumption, inappropriate lighting and increasing greenhouse effect. Therefore, the waste of energy consumption should be reduced by controlling the dimming levels of artificial lighting according to the standard thus reducing the greenhouse effect. Hence, this paper considered the daylight adaptive for the lighting system to determine the dimming level and illuminance level for the office room. The simulation has been carried out using DIALux simulation lighting software to simulate the average daylight and average illuminance level with different conditions sky, which is clear, average, and overcast sky. Based on the result, the illuminance level has complied with the European Standard EN12464-1. Furthermore, the presence of daylight and weather conditions plays an essential role in the lighting system. The illuminance and dimming levels are different depending on the time and type of sky condition at that time. Therefore, the daylight adaptive in the lighting system can reduce the use of artificial light in the room.
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Page: 1219-1225
Publish at: 2020-09-01
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