The dynamic modelling of an airship is the primary requirement in designing and developing a control system for a particular application. Extracting/predicting/modelling the aerodynamic coefficients is a crucial step towards the modelling of an airship. There is a huge amount of literature on the aerodynamic modelling of airships which presents experimental as well as analytical…

Restoring, estimating the fully 3D hand skeleton and pose from the image data of the captured sensors/cameras applied in many applications of computer vision and robotics: human-computer interaction; gesture recognition, interactive games, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), sign languages, action recognition, etc. These are applications that flourish in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) technologies. Previous survey…

In a biometric system technology, a person is authenticated based on processing the unique features of the human biometric signs. One of the well known biometric systems is iris recognition, this technique being considered as one of the most secure authentication solutions in the biometric field. However, several attacks do exist that are able to…

The human brain is one of the most complex machines on the planet. Being the only method to get real-time data with high temporal resolution from the brain makes EEG a highly sought upon signal in the neurological and psychiatric domain. However, recent developments in this field have made EEG more than just a tool…

The purpose of this research paper is to demonstrate that optimization of energy consumption, distributed generation and storage contribute towards mutually beneficial and satisfactory Demand Side Management algorithms that can be installed into consumer smart meters or in Home Energy Storage. A new solution based on an Energy Scheduling and Distributed Storage (ESDS) and Microgrid…

This research aims to enhance the generated power of the small-scaled wind turbine using the eddy current brake system and Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) control method. We analyzed the behavior of the generated power and power factor, with and without the MPPT control which implemented by eddy current brake system. Also, the feasibility of…

In the province of Lima, Peru, criminal acts are increasing every day; it is a social problem that affects many people, who often try with the life of the indignant person, becoming the greatest fear of the community. For this reason, a mobile application was designed that allows the inhabitants to report and share the…

The research in general aims to develop students’ writing skills by applying a model with reader response strategy and visual symbols to promote students’ morals. Specifically, this inquiry is expected to describe the acceptability, comparison, impact, strength, and shortcomings, and the model Adapting To Individual Differences (ATID) of Indonesian literature learning to promote writing skills.…

SIARAN is application which is created by Government of South Tangerang City, Indonesia. The application is e-government services social media based. It is designed for citizens to be able to report problems that occur around South Tangerang City. The research was conducted to find out the factors that affect the intention of SIARAN’s users. The…

Visualization plays a crucial role in the exploratory analysis of Big Data. The direct visualization of Big Data is a challenging task and difficult to analyze. Dimensionality Reduction techniques extract the features in the context of visualization. Due to the unsupervised and non-parametric nature, most of the dimensionality reduction techniques are not evaluated quantitatively and…

The paper presents a novel control strategy applying the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to optimize the scaling weights coefficients of the fuzzy-PID controller for the resistance furnace temperature control system, called PSO-based fuzzy-PID controller/ algorithm. The proposed PSO-based fuzzy-PID controller in this paper consist of the fuzzy-PID controller and the PSO algorithm. The proposed…

The human gut environment can contain hundreds to thousands bacterial species which are proven that they are associated with various diseases. Although Machine learning has been supporting and developing metagenomic researches to obtain great achievements in personalized medicine approaches to improve human health, we still face overfitting issues in Bioinformatics tasks related to metagenomic data…

A high efficiency InAs/GaAs quantum wire solar cell is modelled embedding periodic array of InAs quantum wires (QW) in the intrinsic layer. The promising low dimensional heterostructure such as Quantum Wells, Quantum Wires, Quantum Dots or Dashed (elongated Dots) based intermediate-band-gap solar cells are recently being grasped the attention for ongoing third generation solar cell…

The Center for Analysis and Information Services (Palinfo) at the Judicial Commission closely related to the management of information systems which are used to process organizational internal data and information systems on public services. Data processing and network management have an information system security risk. The Judicial Commission seeks to reduce risk and improve the…

In this work, we completed a validation of the Varian Clinac IX equipped with the High Definition Multi-Leaf Collimator (HD 120 MLC) instead of the removable jaws, using GATE Monte Carlo Platform version 8.2. We validated the multileaf collimator (MLC) geometry by simulating two dosimetric functions (Percentage Depth Dose (PDD) and Dose Profile (DP)), for…

This project aims to demonstrate the importance that digital media can have to the development of loyalty programs, namely in creating empathy and proximity relationships between brands and their target audience: young people. This study consisted of the creation of a digital platform for Toyota Portugal, named Spot Toyota, to communicate actions promoted by the…

We proposed two robust confidence interval estimators, namely, the median interquartile range confidence interval (MDIQR) and the trimean interquartile range confidence interval (TRIQR) for the population mean (µ) as an alternative to the classical confidence interval. The proposed methods are based on the asymptotic normal theorem (ANT) for the sample median (MD) and the sample…

In the smart power grid, designing an efficient and reliable communication architecture has an important role in improving efficiency, and maintaining the connectivity of different network components. The home area network (HAN) provides an energy management system in houses since it enables home energy control and monitoring. So, it is imperative to determine a HAN…

In today’s Moroccan business environment, companies need to implement organization agility by developing an agile workforce that is able to deal with the environment volatility. Thus, the agile workforce concept has been appeared as a necessary and sufficient condition to achieve agility. Focusing on agile enablers influencing workforce agility is an important area but currently…

The field of humanitarian logistics has in recent times gained an increasing attention from both academics and practitioners communities alike. Although various research groups have addressed theoretical and technical developments in humanitarian logistics using conventional research tools, applied research appears to be often dependent on practitioners’ inputs. This paper is an attempt to fill the…

Face explicitly provides the direct and quick way to evaluate human soft biometric information such as race, age and gender. Race is a group of human beings who differ from human beings of other races with respect to physical or social attributes. Race identification plays a significant role in applications such as criminal judgment and…

Many organisations adopt and implement information technology (IT) but fail to operationalise it. As a result, the process of implementation is continually repeated without achieving the goals and objectives, which are often to gain competitive advantage and sustainability. This study employs structuration theory as lens to examine and understand the factors that influence operationalisation of…

Nowadays, process automation and smart systems have gained increasing importance in a wide variety of sectors, and robotics have a fundamental role in it. Therefore, it has attracted greater research interests; among them, Underactuated Mechanical Systems (UMS) have been the subject of many studies, due to their application capabilities in different disciplines. Nevertheless, control of…

The paper proposes the design and simulation of a 6 Degree of Freedom (DOF) robotic arm, tailored for the coconut crop harvesting, assistive robots like wheelchairs and Home robots, Search and rescue robots for disastrous environments, Collaborative robots for research use. A kinematics-based solution has been developed for the robotic arm which makes it easier…

The Gembong reservoir in Pati Regency, Java, Indonesia is a rain-fed reservoir, which experiences a depletion of it carrying capacity. The characteristic of local rainfall is one of the important factors in assessing the potential of hydrometeorology disasters in its area. Sedimentation in watersheds and reservoirs has covered water sources, so local rainfall determines the…