Pelaksanaan outcomes based education (OBE) dalam kalangan pensyarah di Fakulti Pendidikan Teknikal dan Vokasional

Outcomes Based Education (OBE) merupakan satu pendekatan yang terbaik untuk melihat pencapaian pelajar di dalam mengaplikasikan pengetahuan pembelajaran dan turut memudahkan pengajaran pensyarah. Oleh itu, kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengenalpasti tahap kesedaran dan tahap pemahaman pensyarah dalam pelaksanaan OBE. Selain itu, kajian ini juga bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti halangan yang dihadapi oleh pensyarah dalam melaksanakan OBE. Sampel kajian ini adalah terdiri daripada 38 orang pensyarah yang terlibat secara aktif dalam aktiviti pengajaran dan pembelajaran di Fakulti Pendidikan Teknikal dan Vokasional. Dalam kajian ini, reka bentuk kajian yang digunakan adalah tinjauan manakala instrumen yang digunakan pula adalah borang soal selidik. Data yang diperolehi dianalisis menggunakan perisian Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) versi 16.0. Nilai alpha cronbach yang diperolehi dalam kajian rintis ini adalah 0.801. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahawa tahap kesedaran pensyarah terhadap pelaksanaan OBE adalah tinggi begitu juga dengan tahap pemahaman pensyarah yang berada pada tahap yang tinggi. Manakala dari aspek halangan pula mendapati bahawa halangan yang dihadapi oleh pensyarah berada pada tahap yang sederhana. Namun begitu, halangan sokongan dari pihak fakulti menunjukkan halangan yang tinggi yang dihadapi oleh para pensyarah di situ. Kajian ini juga menunjukkan bahawa tidak terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan antara tahap kesedaran pensyarah terhadap pelaksanaan OBE dengan umur pensyarah. Begitu juga dengan pengalaman mengajar pensyarah yang menunjukkan bahawa tiada perbezaan yang signifikan dengan tahap kesedaran pensyarah terhadap pelaksanaan OBE

Qduino: a cyber-physical programming platform for multicore Systems-on-Chip

Emerging multicore Systems-on-Chip are enabling new cyber-physical applications such as autonomous drones, driverless cars and smart manufacturing using web-connected 3D printers. Common to those applications is a communicating task pipeline, to acquire and process sensor data and produce outputs that control actuators. As a result, these applications usually have timing requirements for both individual tasks and task pipelines formed for sensor data processing and actuation. Current cyber-physical programming platforms, such as Arduino and embedded Linux with the POSIX interface do not allow application developers to specify those timing requirements. Moreover, none of them provide the programming interface to schedule tasks and map them to processor cores, while managing I/O in a predictable manner, on multicore hardware platforms. Hence, this thesis presents the Qduino programming platform. Qduino adopts the simplicity of the Arduino API, with additional support for real-time multithreaded sketches on multicore architectures. Qduino allows application developers to specify timing properties of individual tasks as well as task pipelines at the design stage. To this end, we propose a mathematical framework to derive each task’s budget and period from the specified end-to-end timing requirements. The second part of the thesis is motivated by the observation that at the center of these pipelines are tasks that typically require complex software support, such as sensor data fusion or image processing algorithms. These features are usually developed by many man-year engineering efforts and thus commonly seen on General-Purpose Operating Systems (GPOS). Therefore, in order to support modern, intelligent cyber-physical applications, we enhance the Qduino platform’s extensibility by taking advantage of the Quest-V virtualized partitioning kernel. The platform’s usability is demonstrated by building a novel web-connected 3D printer and a prototypical autonomous drone framework in Qduino

The Design of an Autoguide System Prototyped for Conventional Vehicle on Highway

Accident problem is a one of the big issue in this country. From the statistic made by Jabatan Keselamatan Jalan Raya Malaysia, the accidents tragedy in Malaysia increase by year. Conventional Vehicle (heavy vehicle) is the top ranking for the numbers of accident happen in Malaysia. Neglect the human factors identified as major causes of heavy vehicle accidents in the PLUS highway in 2007. Based on the research by Department of Traffic Safety PLUS also, 38 percent of heavy vehicle accident caused by driver drowsiness, while 33.4 percent involved drivers who were driving too fast. 14 percent of accidents were attributed to the driver lost control of their vehicles. 14.6 percent were caused by technical problems such as brake failures and tire burst or monasteries. Most of the accident causes is because of the driver. So, the topic has chosen for the final year project ‘The Design of an Autoguide System Prototyped for Conventional Vehicle on highway’ is to replace the driver to control the direction and speed of vehicle. When this system applied to the conventional vehicle, it may reduce the number of accident causes by driver itself. The main steps to build the autoguide prototyped are start with study of literature review. This help to choose the suitable hardware and software such as sensor. After that, design the circuit for the prototyped and programmed the peripheral interface controller (PIC) by using CCompiler. Then, build the complete prototyped and followed by testing the prototyped at the track that build before. This prototyped used PIC16F877A microcontroller as its brain and receive input from ultrasonic sensor(SRF04) at front and side of prototyped. Front sensor while detect the obstacle at front to control the speed and side sensor will detect the wall of track to control the direction or position of prototyped. The prototyped that has developed is to prove about the autoguide system. This can show how the system work and the material needed in order to build the real product of autoguide system in real life

Automatic Ceiling Fan Controller Based On Temperature Sensor And Reactivated System

This study aims to make adjustment or improvement towards common ceiling fan operation that widely use centrifugal switch as a controller. The objective of this project is to create reliable automatic fan controller and human detection system especially for the user

Design of a Printed Circuit Board for a Sensorless Three-Phase Brushless DC Motor Control System

The use of brushless motors has increased in recent years due to superior performance characteristics compared with alternatives. The operation of a brushless motor is dependent upon a separate controller which is often in the form of a printed circuit board. As such, the size and performance capability of the controller can restrict the performance of the overall motor control system so advancements of these controllers further the potential use of BLDC motors. This project outlines the design of a PCB based, sensorless motor controller for operation of a three-phase BLDC motor powered by a 24 V, high current external supply. Components used were selected to withstand an ambient temperature environment of 125 degrees C. The design for this PCB based motor control system was completed but fabrication and testing of the system was prevented by COVID-19 related restrictions that prohibited the use of necessary facilities and equipment. The detailed design including component selection, board layout, and software development is included in addition to a plan for fabrication and fundamental functional testing. Although no results are available for analysis to bring about any conclusions, a variety of design strategies and corresponding learnings hold the potential to be a source of valuable reference to the further study and development of future designs

A Design of Low Power Single Axis Solar Tracking System Regardless of Motor Speed

Solar power generation had been used as a renewable energy since years ago. Residential that uses solar power as their alternative power supply will bring benefits to them. The main objective of this paper is to present development of an automatic solar tracking system whereby the system will caused solar panels will keep aligned with the Sunlight in order to maximize in harvesting solar power. The system focuses on the controller design whereby it will caused the system is able to tracks the maximum intensity of Sunlight is hit. When the intensity of Sunlight is decreasing, this system automatically changes its direction to get maximum intensity of Sunlight. LDR light detector acts as a sensor is used to trace the coordinate of the Sunlight by detecting brightness level of Sunlight. While to rotate the appropriate position of the panel, a DC-geared motor is used. The system is controlled by two relays as a DC-geared motor driver and a microcontroller as a main processor. This project is covered for a single axis and is designed for low power and residential usage applications. From the hardware testing, the system is able to track and follow the Sunlight intensity in order to get maximum solar power at the output regardless motor speed

MAZE ROBOT: APPLYING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE NAVIGATION ALGORITHM WITH EVENT-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING

Autonomous navigation is an eminent feature in robotics as it provides mobile robot with the ability to traverse from one point to another point while avoiding any obstacles that lie within its path. To navigate through a maze with unpredictable routes would be a great challenge as it requires the assistance of an intelligent algorithm. The main objective of this project is to build and program a mini mobile robot that is able to autonomously navigate through a physical maze. The physical maze will comprise of several different configurations to measure the efficiency of the robot. Hardware and software co-design method is used to construct the mobile robot. The basic navigation algorithm was developed using finite state machine (FSM). Event-driven programming method was applied in producing the maze navigation algorithm for the robot

Pick and Place ABB Working with a Liner Follower Robot

AbstractIndustrial robot is widely used in small and medium workshops, however, the robot cooperating with other devices are important aspect for achieving the full autonomous system. This paper reports on the development of line follower mobile robot correlated with ABB industrial robot manipulator. The line follower mobile robot is a prototype model design and fabricated for material handling purpose. Thus, hardware components as well as software programming are concurrently developed with each other. Meanwhile, a specific micro-controller for the line follower robot associated with the ABB main controller is developed. A sensory system also attached for completing the operational loop. Experimental operation shows fully successful for the developed system. Hence, ABB industrial robot could incorporates further in low cost fully automation system

Mobile Robot (Structure, Sensor Unit and Motor Drive)

A Mobile Robot is developed to detect and avoid obstacles during its navigation from one point to another point. The Mobile Robot system is composed of 5 (five) main parts, which is structure / mechanical part, to do the mechanical part of the robot; sensor unit part, to detect and send the received signal to the controller part; motor drive part, to navigate the robot; controller part, acts as a brain of the robot to control all action taken by the robot; and power supply part, which is used to power up the entire system of the robot. This project has been assigned to two students so that the scope of works can be divided into hardware and software implementation. This report will concentrate on the hardware implementation part including all the circuits used for the system of the robot. The methods used in this project are literature review, research via the internet and books, simulation by using certain software and testing the robot system. The model then is built and its motive is to find its own path and avoid collision in the designed maze