International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES). The journal is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the global world.
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An intelligent humidity control system for mushroom growing house by using beam-switching antennas with artificial neural networks
Prapan Leekul;
Thunyawat Limpiti;
pornpimon Chaisaeng
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp549-560
An automatic humidity control system for mushroom growing house based on the free-space technique is presented. The novelty of this work is the modified free-space technique by measuring the amplitude only of transmission coefficient |S21| that reflected from mushroom by using beam-switching antenna with artificial neural networks (ANNs) as a humidity sensor to control quantity and time of water misting nozzle. In the proposed system, the antenna is designed to act as the transmitting antenna at the frequency of 2.45 GHz. Its radiation patterns can be switched to 4 directions covering all corners of mushroom growing house. The measured |S21| from each direction are converted to direct current (DC) voltage by a radio frequency (RF) detector; then are trained with ANNs in the humidity range of 60-85%. The optimized ANNs structure consists of 4 input nodes, two layers of 5 hidden nodes, and 3 output nodes. To verify the proposed system, experiments were set up in controlled humidity mushroom growing house at the humidity level of 75-80% for 120 hours. The results showed that there was slightly average standard deviation (S.D.) of humidity level 1.36. Consequently, the performance of sensor system assures that it is able to apply for humidity control in large growing house.
Classification of heterogeneous Malayalam documents based on structural features using deep learning models
Bipin Nair Balakrishnan Jayakumari;
Amel Thomas Kavana
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp894-901
The proposed work gives a comparative study on performance of various pretrained deep learning models for classifying Malayalam documents such as agreement documents, notebook images, and palm leaves. The documents are classified based on their visual and structural features. The dataset was manually collected from different sources. The method of research proceeds with preprocessing, feature extraction, and classification. The proposed work deals with three fine-tuned deep learning models such as visual geometry group-16 (VGG-16), convolutional neural network (CNN) and AlexNet. The models attained high accuracies of 99.7%, 96%, and 95%, respectively. Among the three models, the fine-tuned VGG-16 model was found to perform better attaining a very high accuracy on the dataset. As a future work, methods to classify the documents based on content as well as spectral features can be developed.
Linear matrix inequalities tool to design predictive model control for greenhouse climate
Ayoub Moufid;
Noureddine Boutchich;
Najib Bennis
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp258-269
Modeling and regulating the internal climate of a greenhouse have been a challenge as it is a complex and time variant system. The main goal is to regulate the internal climate considering the difference between nighttime and diurnal phases of the day. To depict the comportment of the greenhouse, a multi model approach based on two multivariable black box models have been proposed representing the diurnal and nighttime phases of the day. The least-squares method is utilized to identify the parameters of these two models based on an experimental collected data. We have shown that these two models are more representative than one model to describe the dynamic behavior of the greenhouse. The second contribution is to control the internal temperature and hygrometry respecting constraints on actuators and controlled variables. For this purpose, a constrained model predictive control scheme based on the multi-modeling approach have been developed. The optimization problem of the control law is transformed to a convex optimization problem includes linear matrix inequalities (LMI). The simulation results show that the adopted control method of indoor climate allows rapid and precise tracking of set points and rejects effectively the external disturbances affecting the greenhouse.
Trolls: a novel low-cost controlling system platform for walk-behind tractor
Padma Nyoman Crisnapati;
Dechrit Maneetham;
Evi Triandini
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp842-858
A novel low-cost controlling system platform for walk-behind hand tractors (Quick G3000 and G1000) was designed and developed to solve the fatigue problem faced by farmers when ploughing the rice field. This platform is dedicated to designing and manufacturing mechanical, electrical, and software components. The tractor was modified and added with an embedded control system that functioned as the slave, while the direction of the tractor movement was controlled remotely by humans through Bluetooth communication with the smartphone application as the master. Several servos and direct currents (DCs) were used as the actuator to move some levers and clutches instead of the tractor to make it remotely controllable. This system has been directly tested in the paddy farming land through two tractors: Quick G3000 and G1000. The testing results showed that this system could be used within more or less six hours; there is a cost-efficiency of 21.74% and 84.62% battery usage efficiency. More efficient mechanics caused this cost efficiency, and the reduction in electronic devices affects battery efficiency. A low-cost platform for controlling walk-behind tractors has been successfully developed; this platform assists farmers in ploughing their fields.
Optimal allocation of solar and wind distributed generation using particle swarm optimization technique
Rekha Rekha;
Shankaralingappa Channappa Byalihal
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp229-237
Power demand in the current days is increasing more and more where the conventional power generation systems are failing to meet these power demands due to less availability of non-renewable resources. Hence, many of the researchers are working on the distributed generation (DG) by using renewable resources like wind and solar. The penetration towards wind, solar DG faced challenging situations during power generation due to uncertainty in the wind speed and solar radiation. Recent studies have predicted that the combination of both solar and wind can lead to better performance. However, the sizing and placement of DG systems is necessary to achieve efficiency otherwise the systems may lead to adverse effects in distribution networks. This paper introduced the solar DG, wind DG and hybrid (solar and wind) DG system. The particle swarm optimization technique is used to size and place the DG because of its parallel search capability. Also, the combination of wind-solar DG gives better DG sizing in the respective DG location. The voltage profile of these DG systems has shown better results for the efficient power system. In comparison to conventional DG systems, the suggested hybrid DG system is capable of minimizing power loss and maintaining voltage profile.
An efficient stacking based NSGA-II approach for predicting type 2 diabetes
Ratna Nitin Patil;
Shitalkumar Rawandale;
Nirmalkumar Rawandale;
Ujjwala Rawandale;
Shrishti Patil
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp1015-1023
Diabetes has been acknowledged as a well-known risk factor for renal and cardiovascular disorders, cardiac stroke and leads to a lot of morbidity in the society. Reducing the disease prevalence in the community will provide substantial benefits to the community and lessen the burden on the public health care system. So far, to detect the disease innumerable data mining approaches have been used. These days, incorporation of machine learning is conducive for the construction of a faster, accurate and reliable model. Several methods based on ensemble classifiers are being used by researchers for the prediction of diabetes. The proposed framework of prediction of diabetes mellitus employs an approach called stacking based ensemble using non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) scheme. The primary objective of the work is to develop a more accurate prediction model that reduces the lead time i.e., the time between the onset of diabetes and clinical diagnosis. Proposed NSGA-II stacking approach has been compared with Boosting, Bagging, Random Forest and Random Subspace method. The performance of Stacking approach has eclipsed the other conventional ensemble methods. It has been noted that k-nearest neighbors (KNN) gives a better performance over decision tree as a stacking combiner.
A hybrid swarm intelligence feature selection approach based on time-varying transition parameter
Jomana Yousef Khaseeb;
Arabi Keshk;
Anas Youssef
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp781-795
Feature selection aims to reduce the dimensionality of a dataset by removing superfluous attributes. This paper proposes a hybrid approach for feature selection problem by combining particle swarm optimization (PSO), grey wolf optimization (GWO), and tournament selection (TS) mechanism. Particle swarm enhances the diversification at the beginning of the search mechanism, grey wolf enhances the intensification at the end of the search mechanism, while tournament selection maintains diversification not only at the beginning but also at the end of the search process to achieve local optima avoidance. A time-varying transition parameter and a random variable are used to select either particle swarm, grey wolf, or tournament selection techniques during search process. This paper proposes different variants of this approach based on S-shaped and V-shaped transfer functions (TFs) to convert continuous solutions to binaries. These variants are named hybrid tournament grey wolf particle swarm (HTGWPS), followed by S or V letter to indicate the TF type, and followed by the TF’s number. These variants were evaluated using nine high-dimensional datasets. The results revealed that HTGWPS-V1 outperformed other V’s variants, PSO, and GWO on 78% of the datasets based on maximum classification accuracy obtained by a minimal feature subset. Also, HTGWPS-V1 outperformed six well-known-metaheuristics on 67% of the datasets.
Q-learning based distributed denial of service detection
Hiba Salah Yaseen;
Ahmed Al-Saadi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp972-986
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks the target service providers by sending a huge amount of traffic to prevent legitimate users from getting the service. These attacks become more challenging in the software-defined network paradigm, due to the separation of the control plane from the data plane. Centralized software defined networks are more vulnerable to DDoS attacks that may cause the failure of all networks. In this work, a new approach is proposed based on q-learning to enhance the detection of DDoS attacks and reduce false positives and false negatives. The results of this work are compared with entropy detection in terms of the number of received packets to detect the attack and also the continuity of service for legitimate users. Moreover, these results indicate that the proposed system detects the DDoS attack from flash crowds and redirects the traffic to the edge of the data center. A second controller is used to redirect traffic to a honeypot server that works as a mirror server. This guarantees the continuity of service for both normal and suspected traffic until further analysis is done. The results indicate an increase of up to 50% in the throughput compared to other approaches.
An approach for radiation dose reduction in computerized tomography
Shama Bekal Narayan;
Savitha Halkare Mahabaleshwara
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp1169-1179
Minimization of radiation dose plays an important role in human wellbeing. Excess of radiation dose leads to cancer. Radiation greatly affects young children less than 10 years of age as their life span is longer. Radiation can be reduced by hardware and/or by software techniques. Hardware methods deal with variation of parameters such as tube voltage, tube current, exposure time, focal distance and filter type. Software techniques include image processing methods. The originally acquired X-ray images may be contaminated with noise due to the fact of instability in the case of sensors, electrical power or X-ray source, that is responsible for the degradation of the image attributes. An enhanced image denoising algorithm has been proposed which decreases Gaussian noise combined with salt and pepper noise that retains most information particulars.
A deterministic method of distributed generation hosting capacity calculation: case study of underground distribution grid in Morocco
soukaina naciri;
Ismail Moufid;
Hassan El Moussaoui;
Tijani Lamhamdi;
Hassane El Markhi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 13, No 1: February 2023
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp144-158
Global warming has become a significant concern over the past decades. As a result, governments have shifted their policies toward renewable energy sources and environmentally friendly industries. This approach requires a renewal of the electrical networks to accommodate this new intermittent generation (from solar and wind sources) while remaining stable and reliable. In this vision, the notion of hosting capacity has been introduced to define the amount of new distributed generation that an electrical network can host without affecting its stability and reliability. This study proposes a deterministic method based on the π model of cables to estimate the underground feeder's hosting capacity. This method considers reverse power flow, overvoltage, reconfiguration, overloading, and the physical characteristics of lines. It is applied to the Moroccan medium voltage underground radial feeder. Through DIgSILENT power factory software, the power flow analysis is carried out to validate its effectiveness in overcoming overvoltage and cable overload problems. The results validate the relevance of our method, its reliability, its fluidity of application, and its ability to maintain performance indices within the acceptable range.