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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Implementation of sequential design based water level monitoring and controlling system
Hussain Attia;
Beza Getu;
Abdullah Asaad;
Ahmed Abbas;
Mahmoud Al Nuaimi;
Abdulhadi Brazi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 2: April 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i2.pp967-972
In currently decades, water usage either for domestic or commercial purposes is facing critical conditions which negatively affects the sustainability of our environment. From this point of view, reducing water consumptions will participate in the solution of water saving. Monitoring and controlling the tank water level are important functions which effect and work on reduction of water consumption. Many studies in literature focus on proposing a high performance water level monitoring and controlling systems based on either computerized units or microcontroller units. However these systems are characterized by complexity and high cost. In this paper, a highly flexible implemented electronic system is introduced based on sequential design by using general purpose discrete components. The proposed system present simple design of water level sensing stage, in addition, this paper showing full design, simulation, and implementation steps of an automation system which is able to control switching the state of the water pump in accordance to the current level of water in the tank.
Video Shot Boundary Detection using the Scale Invariant Feature Transform and RGB Color Channels
Zaynab El khattabi;
Youness Tabii;
Abdelhamid Benkaddour
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 5: October 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i5.pp2565-2673
Segmentation of the video sequence by detecting shot changes is essential for video analysis, indexing and retrieval. In this context, a shot boundary detection algorithm is proposed in this paper based on the scale invariant feature transform (SIFT). The first step of our method consists on a top down search scheme to detect the locations of transitions by comparing the ratio of matched features extracted via SIFT for every RGB channel of video frames. The overview step provides the locations of boundaries. Secondly, a moving average calculation is performed to determine the type of transition. The proposed method can be used for detecting gradual transitions and abrupt changes without requiring any training of the video content in advance. Experiments have been conducted on a multi type video database and show that this algorithm achieves well performances.
Transmitting audio via fiber optics under nonlinear effects and optimized tuning parameters based on Co-simulation of matlab and optisystemTM
Abdulrasul A. Al-Hayder;
H. J. Abd;
Ahmed Samawi Alkhafaji
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 10, No 3: June 2020
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v10i3.pp3253-3260
Limitations of conventional wires such as copper wires are causing dispersion and distortion of the message signal for long distances communication especially for the wide bandwidths. The ability of fiber optic to overcome this problem is making it a dominant transmission medium. Despite of this major positive attribute of optic fibers, there is still a downside for using the fiber optic communication; that is the nonlinearity problem especially at the very high frequency bandwidth. For the first time, a desigen of an audio signal is suggested and executed in MatLab with an integration with OptiSystemTM software to discuss and solve this issu. The audio signal is then transmitted in different shapes of modulation signals (NRZ, RZ & RC) for different distances (100 km & 75 km) via a fiber optic media to be received in a receiving part of the simulated system. Three tests are used to do so. The first is the Quality-factor (Q-Factor) against the received power, second test is eye diagram performance and finally is the measuring of the amplitude of output (received) signal for each modulation signal shape using the Oscilloscope Visualizer. The NZR modulation signal was found to be the best one of the three used signals’ types in all three tests. The Q-factor for NRZ pulse shape (=12) was higher than that for RZ (=10) and RC (=8) for a 100 km distance at the same received power level.
Design of Artificial Intelligent Controller for Automatic Generation Control of Two Area Hydrothermal System
Coppisetty Srinivasa Rao
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 2, No 2: April 2012
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This paper presents the design of controller based on the principles of Neural networks. The concept of artificial intelligent techniques greatly helps in overcoming the disadvantages posed by the conventional controllers. A hierarchical architecture of three layer feed forward neural network (NN) is proposed for controller design based on back propagation algorithm (BPA). Area Control Error (ACE) is considered as input to the neural network controller and the output of the controller is provided to the governor in each area. The proposed controllers are tested for a two area hydrothermal system. Simulation results show that the limitations of conventional controller can be overcome by including Neural concept and thereby the dynamic response of the system with respect to peak time, overshoot and settling time can be improved drastically. Keywords: Automatic Generation Control, Hydrothermal system, Neural network, Back propagation algorithm, Area control errorDOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v2i2.111
Protecting Data by Improving Quality of Stego Image based on Enhanced Reduced difference Expansion
Maurice Ntahobari;
Tohari Ahmad
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 4: August 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2468-2476
In this era of internet development, security of information sharing is the main problem faced by human being. Data hiding technique is one of the solutions. However, hiding credential information within a multimedia file such as image reduces its visual quality. Therefore, unauthorized users may suspect the existance of secret data within that image. In the past years, various data hiding algorithms have been developed by researchers to overcome the problem of high distortion of image after data embedding process. Achieving a high quality stego image, however, is still a challenging problem. In this paper, we proposed a new data hiding algorithm based on different expansion. It aims to enhance the quality of stego image for a given payload size. The new algorithm is evaluated on various medical images. Thereafter, the experimental results show that the visual quality is improved; and increasing the embedding capacity leads to more noises. Therefore, a better choice of base point and a reduced difference expansion affect the quality of stego image.
On the Design and Development of a Zigbee-Based Multimodal Input-Output Monitoring-Actuating System
Abbas Orand;
Y. Tomita;
Sayaka Okamoto;
Shigeru Sonoda
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 5, No 5: October 2015
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v5i5.pp1143-1152
The monitoring of a physically challenged patient’s activities is a crucial and difficult task for the medical professionals. The design and development of a multimodal- input and output wireless system with two sensors and three actuators that can be used for just monitoring or for both monitoring and stimulating are discussed in this research. Touch and tilt sensors at the input part of the system attached to Zigbee modules communicate in a wireless manner with voice, vibration and light actuators connected to Zigbee modules at the output part. The hardware and the software parts are designed and integrated in such a way that a new sensor at the input or a new actuator at the output can be included or excluded based on the needs of the patient. It is shown how to design and develop sensors. In an application programming interface communication mode, 3 XBee series 1 modules send and receive data in a wireless manner. The prototype of the system was tested with promising results in the case of the patients with inattention disorder. This system can be used for monitoring the activities of a patient and also for actuating certain stimulus in the patient side in case of necessity.
Sensitivity and packaging improvement of an LCP pressure sensor for intracranial pressure measurement via FEM simulation
Preedipat Sattayasoonthorn;
Jackrit Suthakorn;
Sorayouth Chamnanvej
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 5: October 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i5.pp4044-4052
A biocompatible liquid crystal polymer (LCP) pressure sensor is proposed for measuring intracranial pressure (ICP) in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients. Finite element method using COMSOL multiphysics is employed to study the mechanical behavior of the packaged LCP pressure sensor in order to optimize the sensor design. A 3D model of the 8x8x0.2 mm LCP pressure sensor is simulated to investigate the parameters that significantly influence the sensor characteristics under the uniform pressure range of 0 to 50 mmHg. The simulation results of the new design are compared to the experimental results from a previous design. The result shows that reducing the thickness of the sensing membrane can increase the sensitivity up to six times of that previously reported. An improvement of fabrication methodology is proposed to complete the LCP packaging.
dSPACE Implementation for a Fuzzy Logic Voltage Control using a Self-Excited Induction Generator and a Voltage Source Inverter
Rachid El Akhrif;
Ahmed Abbou;
Mohamed Barara;
Mohamed Akherraz;
Youssef Majdoub
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1749-1759
The present work describes the analysis of a control scheme for keeping the RMS voltage output constant, the system is supplying by a self-excited induction generator with variable speed and load. A comparison is examined between simulation and experimental results using dSPACE board. the results are provided to verify the effectiveness of this approach and gives very high performance.
A novel ensemble modeling for intrusion detection system
Pullagura Indira Priyadarsini;
G. Anuradha
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 10, No 2: April 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v10i2.pp1963-1971
Vast increase in data through internet services has made computer systems more vulnerable and difficult to protect from malicious attacks. Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) must be more potent in monitoring intrusions. Therefore an effectual Intrusion Detection system architecture is built which employs a facile classification model and generates low false alarm rates and high accuracy. Noticeably, IDS endure enormous amounts of data traffic that contain redundant and irrelevant features, which affect the performance of the IDS negatively. Despite good feature selection approaches leads to a reduction of unrelated and redundant features and attain better classification accuracy in IDS. This paper proposes a novel ensemble model for IDS based on two algorithms Fuzzy Ensemble Feature selection (FEFS) and Fusion of Multiple Classifier (FMC). FEFS is a unification of five feature scores. These scores are obtained by using feature-class distance functions. Aggregation is done using fuzzy union operation. On the other hand, the FMC is the fusion of three classifiers. It works based on Ensemble decisive function. Experiments were made on KDD cup 99 data set have shown that our proposed system works superior to well-known methods such as Support Vector Machines (SVMs), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Our examinations ensured clearly the prominence of using ensemble methodology for modeling IDSs. And hence our system is robust and efficient.
High speed script execution for GUI automation using computer vision
M. Narayana;
Raghu Ram Reddy;
Hyndavi Reddy N.
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 1: February 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i1.pp231-236
Software testing by using open source tool like Selenium windows applications cannot be automated, citrix based applications, flash websites and games. Computer vision based automation tools can be used to automate these kinds of applications. These automation tools works based on screenshots of GUI objects like button, radio button, text box, images, dropdowns etc. In this paper a prototype of automation tool has been developed which can execute the automation scripts much faster than existing tools like Sikuli, which takes much time to run the Automation scripts. The execution time can be reduced by using this proposed tool.