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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Modelling and Analysis of Custom Power Device for Improve Power Quality
Gurrala Madhusudhan Rao
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 1, No 1: September 2011
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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Abstract: This paper describes the model and analyzes custom power devices for compensating voltage sag and swell conditions in three phase systems. Faults occurring in power distribution systems or facilities in plants cause the voltage sag or swell. If a fault occurs, it can damage the power system or user’s facility. Sensitivity to voltage sags and swells varies within different applications. For sensitive loads (PLC’s, paper mills etc.), even voltage sags of short duration can cause serious problems in the entire system. Normally, a voltage interruption triggers a protection device, which causes shutdown of the entire system. In order to mitigate power interruptions, this paper proposes a scheme for voltage sag support based on a pulse width modulated autotransformer. The proposed scheme is able to quickly recognize the voltage sag or swell condition, and it can correct the voltage by either boosting the input voltage during voltage sag events or reducing the voltage during swell events.DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v1i1.41
Development of Guiding Cane with Voice Notification for Visually Impaired individuals
Emeline C. Guevarra;
Marck Ivan Reyes Camama;
Geonel Villanueva Cruzado
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 1: February 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i1.pp104-112
Navigation in the physical environment is a challenge for those people who have very limited sense of sight or no vision at all. Assistive technologies for blind mobilization is not new and always have a room for improvement. Moreover, these assistive devices are limited in terms of its sensing and feedback abilities. This paper presents a microcontroller-based guiding stick capable of detecting several conditions of the environment such as obstacles in front, left and right positions of the user and detects ascending and descending staircases. The feedback is delivered by an audio output which dictates the direction to go or what condition the sensor detects in front of the user. Technical evaluation proves that the device was functional in terms of its accuracy, responsiveness and correctness. On the other hand, in the actual evaluation of the device with the visually impaired individuals, the device did not perform efficiently. It was also found that the device has the potential to be used effectively by the visually impaired who acquired their blindness in later stage of their life provided that they will have a proper training in using the device while navigating in the physical environment.
Wind Turbine Fault Detection System in Real Time Remote Monitoring
Saad Chakkor;
Mostafa Baghouri;
Abderrahmane Hajraoui
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 4, No 6: December 2014
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In new energy development, wind power has boomed. It is due to theproliferation of wind parks and their operation in supplying the nationalelectric grid with low cost and clean resources. Hence, there is an increasedneed to establish a proactive maintenance for wind turbine machines based on remote control and monitoring. That is necessary with a real-time wireless connection in offshore or inaccessible locations while the wired method has many flaws. The objective of this strategy is to prolong wind turbine lifetime and to increase productivity. The hardware of a remote control and monitoring system for wind turbine parks is designed. It takes advantage of GPRS or Wi-Max wireless module to collect data measurements from different wind machine sensors through IP based multi-hop communication. Computer simulations with Proteus ISIS and OPNET software tools have been conducted to evaluate the performance of the studied system. Study findings show that the designed device is suitable for application in a wind park.DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v4i6.6479
Tchebichef image watermarking along the edge using YCoCg-R color space for copyright protection
Ferda Ernawan
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 3: June 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i3.pp1850-1860
Easy creation and manipulation of digital images present the potential danger of counterfeiting and forgery. Watermarking technique which embeds a watermark into the images can be used to overcome these problems and to provide copyright protection. Digital image watermarking should meet requirements, e.g. maintain image quality, difficult to remove the watermark, quality of watermark extraction, and applicable. This research proposes Tchebichef watermarking along the edge based on YCoCg-R color space. The embedding region is selected by considering the human visual characteristics (HVC) entropy. The selected blocks with minimum of HVC entropy values are transformed by Tchebichef moments. The locations of C(0,1), C(1,0), C(0,2) and C(2,0) of the matrix moment are randomly embedded for each watermark bit. The proposed watermarking scheme produces a good imperceptibility by average SSIM value around 0.98. The watermark recovery has greater resistant after several types of attack than other schemes.
Localization of Cooperative WSN using Distributed PSO with Optimum References
Ravichander Janapati;
Ch. Balaswamy;
K. Soundararajan
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 6, No 6: December 2016
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v6i6.pp3094-3102
In indoor environment WSN nodes are deployed randomly and do not know the accurate position. Find the node position with the help of anchor nodes is known as localization. CRB algorithm selects the best anchor nodes which gives high accuracy. In this paper distributed PSO algorithm with optimum selection of reference nodes using CRB is proposed to find accurate node position. The proposed method performs better in comparison with other algorithms like PSO, RLS, LMS and GPS in terms of position accuracy, latency and complexity.
Impacts of photovoltaic power source intermittence on a distribution network
Oumaima Garfi;
Helmi Aloui;
Nadia Chaker
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 6: December 2019
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i6.pp5134-5142
The integration of the photovoltaic (PV) solar systems into distribution networks has brought new challenges to the network planners. One of the most interesting is to prevent the impacts of the PV intermittent character on the steady state system operation conditions. This work is aimed to investigate such effect on voltage performance, conventional generator daily behavior and automatic voltage regulator operation. Simulations were conducted on a 33-bus IEEE radial distribution power system. In order to provide a reliable study, a real PV power profile was considered. Obtained results over a period of 24 hours revealed that the PV integration contributes to an enhancement of the overall voltage profile, a considerable saving in the total amount of the produced active power and a reduction of power losses. However, the PV intermittent character causes significant transformation in buses voltages daily profiles as well as changes in production plan. To sum up, this paper reports the alterations, caused by the PV source intermittence, which must be taken into consideration by the distribution networks planners to maintain the overall network parameters within safe operating condition
Smooth Support Vector Machine for Suicide-Related Behaviours Prediction
G. Indrawan;
I K P Sudiarsa;
K. Agustini;
Sariyasa Sariyasa
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 8, No 5: October 2018
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3399-3406
Suicide-related behaviours need to be prevented on psychiatric patients. Prediction of those behaviours based on patient medical records would be very useful for the prevention by the psychiatric hospital. This research focused on developing this prediction at the only one psychiatric hospital of Bali Province by using Smooth Support Vector Machine method, as the further development of Support Vector Machine. The method used 30.660 patient medical records from the last five years. Data cleaning gave 2665 relevant data for this research, includes 111 patients that have suicide-related behaviours and under active treatment. Those cleaned data then were transformed into ten predictor variables and a response variable. Splitting training and testing data on those transformed data were done for building and accuracy evaluation of the method model. Based on the experiment, the best average accuracy at 63% can be obtained by using 30% of relevant data as data testing and by using training data which has one-to-one ratio in number between patients that have suicide-related behaviours and patients that have no such behaviours. In the future work, accuracy improvement need to be confirmed by using Reduced Support Vector Machine method, as the further development of Smooth Support Vector Machine.
IACR: an interference-aware channel reservation for wireless sensor networks
Sangsoon Lim
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 9, No 2: April 2019
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v9i2.pp1220-1225
In battery-based wireless sensor networks, energy-efficient operation is one of the most important factors. Especially, in order to improve energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks, various studies on low power operation have been actively conducted in the MAC layer. In recent years, mutual interference among various radio technologies using the same radio frequency band has become a serious problem. Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and Bluetooth use the same frequency band of 2.4GHz at the same time, which causes various signal interference problems. In this paper, we propose a novel channel reservation scheme, called IACR, to improve the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks in an environment where interference occurs between various wireless technologies. The proposed scheme inserts a PN code into a long preamble for exchanging transmission status information between a transmitting node and a receiving node, thereby improving the transmission success probability while receiving less influence on transmission of other radio technologies. We performed an event-driven simulation and an experiment to measure the signal detection rate. As a result, it can be seen that the proposed technique reduces the packet drop rate by 15% and increases the discoverable distance of the control packet for channel reservation.
A Novel Approach Based on Decreased Dimension and Reduced Gray Level Range Matrix Features for Stone Texture Classification
G. S. N. Murthy;
Srininvasa Rao. V;
T. Veerraju
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 5: October 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i5.pp2502-2513
The human eye can easily identify the type of textures in flooring of the houses and in the digital images visually. In this work, the stone textures are grouped into four categories. They are bricks, marble, granite and mosaic. A novel approach is developed for decreasing the dimension of stone image and for reducing the gray level range of the image without any loss of significant feature information. This model is named as “Decreased Dimension and Reduced Gray level Range Matrix (DDRGRM)” model. The DDRGRM model consists of 3 stages. In stage 1, each 5×5 sub dimension of the stone image is reduced into 2×2 sub dimension without losing any important qualities, primitives, and any other local stuff. In stage 2, the gray level of the image is reduced from 0-255 to 0-4 by using fuzzy concepts. In stage 3, Co-occurrence Matrix (CM) features are derived from the DDRGRM model of the stone image for stone texture classification. Based on the feature set values, a user defined algorithm is developed to classify the stone texture image into one of the 4 categories i.e. Marble, Brick, Granite and Mosaic. The proposed method is tested by using the K-Nearest Neighbor Classification algorithm with the derived texture features. To prove the efficiency of the proposed method, it is tested on different stone texture image databases. The proposed method resulted in high classification rate when compared with the other existing methods.
Design of fiber bragg grating (FBG) temperature sensor based on optical frequency domain reflectometer (OFDR)
Nani Fadzlina Naim;
Siti Noor Maslizan Sudin;
Suzi Seroja Sarnin;
Norsuzila Ya'acob;
Latifah Sarah Supian
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 10, No 3: June 2020
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v10i3.pp3158-3165
In this paper, the simulation of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) as a temperature sensor is conducted. The FBG temperature sensor is designed based on Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometer (OFDR) concept. A continuous wave (CW) laser is used as the optical source and it is transmitted to two FBGs. The two FBGs reflection spectra will produce a beat frequency that can be detected using a Radio Frequency (RF) Spectrum Analyzer. Any temperature change will shift Bragg wavelength, thus produce a shift for the beat frequency. In this work, an FBG with temperature sensitivity 10 pm/˚C is employed. It is found that by using this technique, a high-resolution temperature sensor can be designed with temperature resolution of 0.1˚C.