Norashikin M Thamrin

• Bachelor of electrical-electronics engineering (Hon.s), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Master of Electrical Engineering., Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
• Professor (Associate) at MARA University of Technology

This work compared the performance of two Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms, Hector SLAM and Gmapping, for self-navigation of a mobile robot in a small, slippery surface and controlled environment. The experiment utilised the Bveeta Mini mobile robot within a tiled corridor area. The primary objective was to evaluate and compa...

Eco-friendly and cost-effective irrigation systems are essential for sustainable agriculture. Traditional irrigation systems are unsustainable due to the high cost of operation and environmental pollution associated with fossil fuels. A possible solution for farmers is the use of solar-powered irrigation systems. This research aims to develop a sol...

Colour sorting robots automate industries, but translating image data to robot movement is expensive and complicated. Vision sensors require a lot of processing power, which can slow down and strain the robot. Real-time colour sorting hardware and software integration complicates things. This work uses robotic operating system (ROS) to solve vision...

Colour sorting robots automate industries, but translating image data to robot movement is expensive and complicated. Vision sensors require a lot of processing power, which can slow down and strain the robot. Real-time colour sorting hardware and software integration complicates things. This work uses robotic operating system (ROS) to solve vision...

Automated colour sorting, aided by mobile robots, is widely prevalent in the current manufacturing industry. Obstacles, such as fluctuating light conditions and camera angles, frequently hinder this procedure. Creating a colour sorting robot is a complex and time-consuming task, especially due to the vulnerability of the RGB colour space to detecti...

Telemedicine diabetes mellitus (Tele-DM) mobile health (mHealth) tool functionality, usefulness, and user feedback were examined in this study. Data from nine distinct users of type-2 diabetes (T2D) patients, healthcare professionals (HCPs), and administrators was analyzed to determine functionality. Data retrieval times increased with database use...

Dear valued participants, Call for Papers and Reviewers: The Second 2024 IEEE International Conference on Agrosystem Engineering, Technology & Applications (AGRETA 2024) 7th September 2024, Tamu Hotel & Suites, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Website: https://www.agreta.org/ Facebook: Conference on Agrosystem Engineering,Technology&Applications-AGRETA L...

The research is led to the development of a smart sensory network adaptive traffic light to optimise traffic flow and reduce congestion on Jalan Persisiran Seri Alam in Pasir Gudang. With variable time management, this system can reduce the time spent at traffic junctions and carbon emitted by vehicles, thus supporting the SDG 11 for low carbon sma...

Evaluating water quality is crucial for preserving the quality of river water. However, the typical technique of getting biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) values via laboratory testing might take several days, delaying the application of real-time measurement to improve water quality. This paper suggests using machine learning to predict BOD values f...

Dear valued participants, Call for Papers and Reviewers: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Agrosystem Engineering, Technology & Applications (AGRETA 2023) 9th September 2023, Menara Felda, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Website: https://www.agreta.org/ Facebook: Conference on Agrosystem Engineering,Technology&Applications-AGRETA The IEEE Industrial...

Physical activity is commonly used as a treatment for diabetes patients, although its effectiveness in improving cognitive functions such as learning, thinking, remembering, and decision making is not clear. Regular exercise can gradually improve metabolic abnormalities associated with pre-diabetes and assist patients with type-2 diabetes (T2D) in...

Over the years, a new modern technology has been adapted in their agriculture system to help saving cost on plantation management. The jobs of fertilizing the crops, pesticide control, crops monitoring and harvesting are all done using automatic machinery system. By this way the farmers can maximize their production and expense less on farm managem...

Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles that can be remotely operated to perform a variety of tasks. They have been used in search and rescue operations since the early 2000s and have proven to be invaluable tools for quickly locating missing persons in difficult terrain and environment. In certain cases, automated human detection on drone camera feed...

A robotic arm is the most often used robot in manufacturing to perform the same task accurately again and over again in a controlled environment. However, direct positioning control of the robotic arm is always inaccurate as it does not consider its position in the external environment. Therefore, this work implements the Mamdani fuzzy logic in the...

Water quality is one of the most highly debated issues worldwide at the moment. Inadequate water supplies affect human health, hinder food production, and degrade the environment. Using contemporary technology to analyze pollution statistics can help solve pollution issues. One option is to take advantage of advancements in intelligent data process...

The usage of the robotic arm in industries has been growing as the robotic arm can provide many advantages to the industries. However, the usage of the robotic arm has many challenges faced by the industries. One of the problems is the error of the angle position caused by the movement of the robotic arm’s joint which affects the precision of the d...

Water is a critical component of life on this planet, as humans, animals, and plants all rely on water supplies for survival. Regrettably, human activity has contaminated water sources. As a means of remedying this situation, each river should have an intelligent system that continuously monitors the water quality index at each water source. Howeve...

Water retention ponds developed in UiTM Pasir Gudang is used to accommodate the overflowed water from the campus facilities. Overflowed water is accumulated into this water retention pond and will flow to other water sources. Water from the water retentionpond has potential to contaminate other water sources as well as the environment. To maintain...

This study has proposed a non-linear autoregressive model to predict one-day ahead dissolved oxygen in paddy field irrigation channel. A 32-day data is obtained from Kampung Padang To’ La in Pasir Mas, Kelantan using off-the shelf water quality parameter sensors. Analysis has revealed no correlation between dissolved oxygen with pH and electrical c...

In a well-structured plantation field throughout the world, the crops are usually planted in such long rows, which indirectly has created small pathways in between two consecutive rows. This pathway has been traveled by the farmers to move around in the field either by foot or machine and so that they can monitor, harvest as well as provide a maxim...

p>Water quality plays a major role in issues related to public health and marine life. Hence, monitoring river for contaminations is vital for ensuring safe and sustainable water resources. Conventional method for assessing water quality index is costly as it requires considerable amount of time and laboratory resources. Therefore, this study propo...

The robotic arm is used in many automated jobs in the industry and education tool in academia. In understanding the robotic arm’s kinematic motion, the simulation of this manipulator must be paired with the real hardware to translate the mathematical formulation to the movement of the electrical and electronic components for the electrical engineer...

Malaysians generate 15,000 tons of food waste per day and dispose of it in the landfill, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. As a solution for the stated problem, this research aims to produce an excellent quality bokashi compost from household organic waste using a smart composting bin. The bokashi composting method is conducted, whereby ban...

Shah Alam is in Selangor, Malaysia and symbolized with several lakes that are popular among local communities and visitors for leisure and recreational activities. Among of these lakes, few lakes need management to look after its hygienic and well-being to serve its purpose as the recreational lake for the nearby community, such as Lake 7/1F, Shah...

This paper presents the use of the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) from the RF signal to estimate the distance from a point where the signal is transmitted to the point where the signal is received. This can be a challenge as in the paddy field, the watery and dry conditions, as well as the height of the paddy plant can affect signal tran...

Pahang river's main tributary, Tembeling river, flows through the Taman Negara national park in Pahang, which is an eco-tourism attraction in Malaysia. Tembeling river is the main sources of water and food for its surrounding communities. However, agricultural and recreational development on the river banks, monsoon season flooding, and maritime ac...

In industry, a contamination in the product requires testing, inspection, diagnosis, repair and then more testing before the plant goes back on the production line. This process can take days and even months, depending on the type and extent of the contamination. Industries also need to ensure that the product can be manufactured in great quantity...

Conventionally, the rehabilitation equipment used in the hospital or recovery center to treat and train the muscle of the stroke patient is implementing the pneumatic or compressed air machine. The main problem caused by this equipment is that the arrangement of the machine is quite complex and the position of it has been locked and fixed, which ca...

In this work, an inter-row tree detection and tracking techniques based on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method are developed specifically for a well-structures agricultural field where the trees are planted uniformly with a certain distance that leaves it with a number of inter-row spaces. The existing rows have created opportunitie...

In agriculture field, headland turning is one of the important aspects in controlling the unmanned vehicle to move from one row to another autonomously. Therefore, this paper presents the headland turning based on the pre-defined path using Bezier curve with optimum path and minimal navigation and orientation control schemes. Real-time experiments...

Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of human casualty in the world as reported by World Health Organization (WHO). To facilitate in minimizing this cause, constant monitoring of the heart's rhythm appears to be essential in observing the condition of the heart by checking or recording the Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. This paper presents a p...

One of the unique features in the structured and well-organized agriculture field is the arrangement of the plants and crops in such long rows that leaves a small pathway in between them. This pathway is really important to facilitate the movement of the farmers or tractors in providing a maximum plant scouting and monitoring throughout the entire...

In autonomous quadrocopter navigation, wind disturbances commonly pose a problem for the vehicle to navigate precisely on the planned path. The vehicle easily deviates off from the path and obviously affects the navigation accuracy. Trajectory correction is one possible solution proposed by few researchers to avert the problem. The approaches are p...

In Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technique, recognizing and marking the landmarks in the environment is very important. Therefore, in a commercial farm, rows of trees, borderline of rows as well as the trees and other features are mostly used by the researchers in realizing the automation process in this field. In this paper, the det...

Precise tree diameter estimation for a lightweight and intelligent vehicle such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a commercial farm is still an unresolved problem. A lot of UAVs and the ground vehicles (UGV) are navigated across the farm by relying on the aided of the vision sensor as well as laser scanner. All of these methods require an extreme...

Create a map is an initial task for a robot to maneuver or navigated automatically in a proposed area. It is a difficult task for a robot creates a map and performs the desired task concurrently especially on an aerial application. Aerial application needs a simple and light computational method in order to process the applied algorithm. This paper...

Deviation from a planned path due to dynamic wind disturbances clearly will defect the quadrocopter navigation accuracy thus result to poor execution of a task. Few researchers proposed correction algorithms to be integrated in the autonomous quadrocopter system for the problem arises. However, the algorithms are not applicable to enable quadrocopt...

Feature detection is an important task for an autonomous vehicle in getting reference or guide in a agriculture field. Recently, a lot of sensors were implemented for feature detection of a field such as sonar sensor, laser range finder, infrared sensor which it is used as height estimation, size area measurement and path tracking that act as refer...

This paper presents a new approach in determining the diameter of cylindrical object based on the available two triangles formation technique. The proposed hardware-software system is useful to be implemented on an unmanned aerial vehicle platform in the agriculture field for row detection and navigation techniques based on simultaneous localizatio...

One of the important aspects in building an autonomous vehicle with the cognitive capability in agriculture field is the potentiality of it to recognize the trees or significant landmarks and map it for future navigation process. Therefore, it is crucial for a machine to detect the trees and keep tracking between them in order to perform the planta...

In agriculture field, one of the important task for an automated machine is to detect the trees and keep tracking between them in order to perform the plantation activities. One of the challenges face by this implementation is when the trees are planted at a wider distance to one another. Therefore, individual tree detection is very crucial in faci...

This paper presents a review of previous work in the field of the unmanned autonomic vehicles in the agricultural field, particularly in the real-time inter-row tracking and localization techniques. A new method in row detection techniques based on simultaneous localization and mapping is proposed. The inter-row tracking technique differs from othe...

Autonomous quadrocopter recently has shown a significant usages and potentials to be used widely in the commercial market. This caused the aircraft to become a well-liked subject among the researchers and research organizations. With good controllability and stability on its motions will make the usability of the quadrocopter to perform a task reli...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate real-time accurateness of low-altitude height measurement using a single sonar sensor via Kalman filter algorithm in embedded controller. The function of the one dimension embedded Kalman filter of sonar sensor is to reduce and resolve the error of low altitude height measurement that produced from the sensor fo...

Analytical processes is performed for calculating point distance using ultrasonic sensors, with the intention to resolve a low-altitude two-dimensional surface mapping using UAV. An experimental structure model was constructed to allow for dynamic one-dimensional movement of the sensor system in a horizontal plane. Sample experimental surfaces are...

Manual wheelchair used to help the elderly and the handicapped for their mobility with assisted from other person. This paper presents a model of electrical powered wheelchair (EPW) which moves according to the motion mode of a joystick operated by a person. The signal from joystick is converted to digital signal by Analogue to Digital Converter (A...

Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is widely used in manufacturing industries for automation and became one of the essential subjects in the university. Learning theory in class alone is not enough to acquire the knowledge of PLC. Therefore in this paper a PLC Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool suit is developed to assist students' lear...

Medical imaging has become essential in health industry. It becomes crucial during on-line or off-line data transmission between healthcare institutions. Larger image requires more spaces to be saved and more time to be loaded. Thus, in this paper, an artificial neural network is chosen to quantize the image into smaller number of colour palettes t...

In Telemedicine, confidential information is transferred through an unsecure channel from one party to another. In this paper, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) based approach to protect the data in the Telemedicine system, the mySECURE II is developed. There are two security schemes on a crypto System-on-Chip (SoC) proposed in this paper name...

Ahstract-In the year 2004, Outcome-Based Education (OBE) has been adopted by the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) in accrediting Electrical Engineering Programmes for universities in Malaysia. To fulfill the requirement, Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) has taken necessary steps to implement OBE in ea...

In this paper, an enhanced and provably secure hybrid random number generator (Hybrid RNG) for generating the cryptographic keys in a cryptosystem is designed. These keys are the most crucial component in this system as the security of the most cryptosystem lies entirely on it. Therefore, a mechanism to generate this key is presented and the genera...

Outcome Based Education is an approach that focuses on the behavior change in the learning of students rather than the learning process. What student is able to perform within a realm of technical expertise after the learning process is of utmost importance. Recently, it becomes mandatory for all the higher learning institutions in Malaysia to impl...

In this paper, we design a photonic-based true random number generator (True RNG) which is targeted for cryptographic application .Since all security protocols rely on unpredictability, RNGs for crypto applications must meet stringent requirements. The design employs a single-photon detection to generate a random signal which is useful in producing...

Abs t r ac t I n this paper, we design a true random number generator (TRNG) in hardware which is targeted for FPGA-based crypto embedded systems. All crypto protocols require the generation and use of secret v alues that must be unknown to attackers. Random number generators (RNG) are required to generate public/ priv ate key pairs for asymmetric...