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Using Neuro-Fuzzy Technique to Classify and Predict Electrical Engineering Students’ Achievement Upon Graduation Based on Mathematics Competency
Usamah bin Mat;
Norlida Buniyamin
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 5, No 3: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v5.i3.pp684-690
This paper discusses the findings of a case study that uses neuro-fuzzy tool to classify and predict Electrical engineering students graduation achievement based on mathematics competency. In this study, achievement upon graduation and mathematics grades were classified as the key performance index. It's based on longitudinal progress and cross validation model on two mathematics subjects, semesters’ performance, and graduation achievement of electrical students. The outcomes indicated that there is a correlation between mathematics competency with electrical engineering performance, and it’s interesting to note that weak and satisfactory students in mathematics are not able to achieve first class upon graduation, and yet there is small percentage of excellent and good students in mathematics couldn’t graduate with high achievement. The findings conclude that the combination of statistical analysis and machine learning can help us to extract knowledge and enable university management to help low achievers at early stage. It’s hoped that the findings can help faculty management to review mathematics curriculum with respect to increasing range of engineering field.
Image Reconstruction Based on Combination of Inverse Scattering Technique and Total Variation Regularization Method
Nor Haizan Jamali;
Kismet Anak Hong Ping;
Shafrida Sahrani;
Dayang Azra Awang Mat;
Mohamad Hamiruce Marhaban;
Mohd Iqbal Saripan;
Toshifumi Moriyama;
Takashi Takenaka
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 5, No 3: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v5.i3.pp569-576
The Forward-Backward Time-Stepping (FBTS) had proven its potential to reconstruct images of buried objects in inhomogeneous medium with useful quantitative information about its size, shape, and locality. The Total Variation regularization method was incorporated with the FBTS algorithm to deal with the ill-posedness or ill-conditionedness of the inverse problem. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is confirmed by numerical simulations. The numerical method was carried out on a simple object detection through FBTS with and without TV regularization method. The detection and reconstruction of relative permittivity and conductivity of the simple object have shown an improvement as TV regularization method applied whereas it smoothed the vibrations of the images and gave a better estimation of the image’s boundaries.
Compact Wideband Broadside-Coupled Microstrip-Slot Bandpass Filter for Communication Applications
Norhudah Seman;
Dyg Norkhairunisa Abang Zaidel;
Zuhaili Amalina Abd. Wahid;
Nor Azimah Mohd Shukor;
Tharek Abd Rahman
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 5, No 3: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v5.i3.pp650-655
This paper proposes a compact size design of wideband bandpass filter (BPF). The broad-side coupling microstrip-slot technique is used to accomplish a good passband response with very low insertion loss across a wideband frequency range. The BPF that is designed using Rogers RO4003C substrate shows a good performance with the respective maximum reflection coefficient and insertion loss of -10 dB and 1.2 dB between 0.92 GHz and 5 GHz. This type of BPF filter is useful in any communication applications.
Comparison of Deposition Methods of ZnO Thin Film on Flexible Substrate
A. A.M. Idris;
R. Arsat;
M. K. Ahmad;
F. Sidek
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 5, No 3: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v5.i3.pp536-541
This paper reports the effect of the different deposition methods towards the ZnO nanostructure crystal quality and film thickness on the polyimide substrate. The ZnO film has been deposited by using the spray pyrolysis technique, sol-gel and RF Sputtering. Different methods give a different nanostructure of the ZnO thin film. Sol gel methods, results of nanoflowers ZnO thin film with the thickness of thin film is 600nm. It also produces the best of the piezoelectric effect in term of electrical performance, which is 5.0 V and 12 MHz of frequency which is higher than other frequency obtained by spray pyrolysis and RF sputtering.
Tapered Microchannel for Multi-particles Passive Separation Based on Hydrodynamic Resistance
Ida Laila Ahmad;
Mohd Ridzuan Ahmad
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 5, No 3: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v5.i3.pp628-635
Researches on separation of multi-particles utilizing microfluidic have been flourishing in recent years with the aid from advancements in microfabrication design and technology. Generally, separation is beneficial for biomedical application especially involving heterogeneous samples. Due to inherent problems of samples isolation, a simple and efficient separation device is required. Here, we present a passive tapered microchannel for multi-particles separation using hydrodynamic principle. Our emphasis is on the effect of hydrodynamic resistance coupled with tapered microchannel design. In the experiment, successful multi-particles samples separation was observed. The results were further analyzed and were in agreement with the proposed concept. This method opens the route toward robust, low-cost and high-throughput, thus it may holds potential to be integrated as one functional module in micro total analysis system.
Active Node Detection in A Reconfigurable Microgrid using Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms
Anay Majee;
Souradeep Nanda;
Gnana Swathika O.V
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 5, No 3: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v5.i3.pp502-507
Microgrids are the solution to the growing demand for energy in the recent times. It has the potential to improve local reliability, reduce cost and increase penetration rates for distributed renewable energy generation. Inclusion of Renewable Energy Systems (RES) which have become the topic of discussion in the recent times due to acute energy crisis, causes the power flow in the microgrid to be bi-directional in nature. The presence of the RES in the microgrid system causes the grid to be reconfigurable. This reconfiguration might also occur due to load or utility grid connection and disconnection. Thus conventional protection strategies are not applicable to micro-grids and is hence challenging for engineers to protect the grid in a fault condition. In this paper various Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithms are applied in microgrids to identify the active nodes of the current topology of the network in a heuristic approach and thereby generating a tree from the given network so that minimum number of nodes have to be disconnected from the network during fault clearance. In the paper we have chosen the IEEE-39 and IEEE-69 bus networks as our sample test systems.
Higher-order Mode Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antenna for 5G Applications
Nor Hidayu Shahadan;
Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin;
Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin;
Yoshihide Yamada
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 5, No 3: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v5.i3.pp584-592
The excitation of the higher-order mode, in rectangular dielectric resonator designed was explored to enhance the antenna gain and detailed elaboration is presented in this paper. The antenna was fed by a 50Ω microstrip line through an aperture cut in the ground plane. Besides avoiding spurious radiation, this feeding technique gives flexibility in controlling the amount of coupling in order to reduce the Q-factor in the higher-order mode RDRA. A design was developed and subsequently simulated using Ansoft HFSS ver 16.0 by utilizing Duroid 5880 dielectric substrate with a thickness (ts) of 0.254 mm, a permittivity (εs) of 2.2 and a loss tangent (δ) of 0.001 at 15 GHz. The higher-order mode, RDRA achieved the measured gain at 9.76 dBi and the measured impedance bandwidth as much 2.5 GHz which is 4.7% more compared to the fundamental mode. The result should be considered suitable for 5G applications.
Mammography Image Segmentation: Chan-Vese Active Contour and Localised Active Contour Approach
Mahfuzah Mustafa;
Hana Najwa Omar Rashid;
Nor Rul Hasma Abdullah;
Rosdiyana Samad;
Dwi Pebrianti
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 5, No 3: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v5.i3.pp577-583
Breast cancer is one of the most common diseases diagnosed among female cancer patients. Early detection of breast cancer is needed to reduce the risk of fatality of this disease as no cure has been found yet for this illness. This research is conducted to improve the Gradient Vector Flow (GVF) Snake Active Contour segmentation technique in mammography segmentation. Segmentation of the mammogram image is done to segment lesions existence using Chan-Vese Active Contour and Localized Active Contour. Besides that, the effectiveness of these both methods are then compared and chosen to be the best method. Digital Database of Screening Mammograms (DDSM) is used for the purpose of screening. First, the images undergo pre-processing process using the Gaussian Low Pass Filter to remove unwanted noise. After that, contrast enhancement applied to the images. Segmentation of mammograms is then conducted by using Chan-Vese Active Contour and Localized Active Contour method. The result shows that Chan-Vese technique outperforms Localized Active Contour with 90% accuracy.
Conductive and Inductive Coupling between Faulted Power Lines and Buried Pipeline by Considering the Effect of Soil Structure
Ali I. El Gayar;
Zulkurnain Abdul-Malek;
Mohammed Imran M;
Chin Leong Wooi;
Ibtihal Fawzi Elshami
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 5, No 3: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v5.i3.pp656-660
The AC total interference of faulted power lines to gas pipelines sharing the same right of way, which may pose a threat to operating personnel and equipment, was studied. The main advantage of this work is to determine the effects of different soil structures on the induced voltage for various soil resistivities. Two main approaches were used to compute the induced voltages, namely the method of moment (MOM), which is based on electromagnetic field theory, and the circuit based method, which uses the circuit grounding analysis to compute the conductive interference and the circuit based models to compute the inductive interference. A 10-km-long parallel pipeline-transmission line model was developed. The soil resistivity was varied, and the induced voltages obtained from both approaches were compared. Soil resistivity and soil structure are important parameters that affect the AC interference level. The results of the study show that the earth potentials and the metal GPRS are independent. Higher soil resistivity causes the tower ground resistance to increase, thus making the shield wire’s attractiveness as a fault current return path to increase, which in turn forces the induced net EMF and the cumulative GPR in the pipeline to reduce.
Evaluation of PCB Shielding Characteristic in Near Field
Yih Jian Chuah;
Mohd Tafir Mustaffa
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Vol 5, No 3: March 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijeecs.v5.i3.pp542-548
Wireless electronic devices nowadays always operate in high frequency while having small and compact form factor which led to electromagnetic interference among traces and components. PCB shielding is the common solution applied in electronic industry to mitigate electromagnetic interference. In this paper, PCB shielding characteristics such as shield’s thickness, height, and ground via spacing in PCB boards were evaluated in near field. Test boards with various ground via spacing were fabricated and evaluated by using 3D Electromagnetic scanner. On the other hand, shields with various thickness and height were modeled and evaluated through simulation. Results suggested that shielding effectiveness could be improved by having greater shield’s height with smaller ground via spacing in shielding ground tracks. Shielding effectiveness can be improved by 1 dB with every step of 0.5 mm increase in shield’s height. Besides that, approximately 0.5 dB improvement in shielding effectiveness with every step of 1 mm decrease in ground via spacing. Furthermore, greater shield’s thickness can contribute better shielding effectiveness for operating frequency below 300 MHz.