Hanim Mohd Yatim

University of Kuala Lumpur | unikl · Malaysian Institute of Industrial Technology

The flexible structure offers various advantages such as being lightweight, efficient, fast system response, and low energy consumption. However, the light characteristic of the structure leads to excessive vibration, which can lead to system failure. Thus, eliminating vibration from external sources on the horizontal flexible plate structure is co...

The use of flexible beam structures is widespread across various industries due to their numerous advantages, including reduced energy consumption, cost-effectiveness, faster movements, and improved efficiency when compared to rigid beam structures. This research focuses on employing a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller to regulate t...

Proportional-integral-derivate (PID) controller has gained popularity since the advancement of smart devices especially in suppressing the vibration on flexible structures using different approaches. Such structures required accurate and reliable responses to prevent system failures. Swarm intelligence algorithm (SIA) is one of the optimization met...

The implementation of flexible plate structures in industrial settings presents a multitude of benefits, including enhanced efficiency and greater flexibility in comparison with rigid structures. Notwithstanding these advantages, malleable plate structures are more prone to vibrations on account of their inadequate rigidity to endure significant le...

The complex behavior of two-phase flow particularly in microchannels can be unpredictable. Experimental measurements are near impossible because of the unavailable compatible assessment equipment. Meanwhile, repeated experiments for reliability of outcomes are costly and involved much time and effort. Environmentally friendly propane is currently b...

Control systems based on fuzzy logic (FL) and proportional–integral–derivative (PID) are among the effective controllers which operate using an inference mechanism rule base and control loop mechanism that continuously calculates an error value. Because of that both of them are being used as a practical solution for major vibration problems in many...

Robotic manipulator with a multi-link structure has a significant role in the majority of today's industries. Controlling the motion of a multi-link manipulator, on the other hand, has proven to be a difficult task, especially when a flexible structure is used. This is due to the complexity of their structures, which causes excessive vibration, res...

Flexible manipulator is widely used in robotics and mechanical systems. Its application have led to the development of systems which are lighter, less bulky, and provides greater system flexibility. However, the flexible manipulator has one drawback. It develops unwanted vibration during operation which reduced the efficiency of the flexible manipu...

Flexible manipulator offers industry with less material requirement, lighter in weight thus transportable, consuming less power, require smaller actuators, less control complexity while being able to operate in higher payload to weight. But, due to high flexibility of the flexible manipulator, excessive vibration can be found if the system is imple...

A control system based on fuzzy logic (FL) is one of the effective controllers which operates using an inference mechanism rule base that requires a knowledge database. The system itself can remotely able to produce good linguistic variables depending types of output required. Nevertheless, the FL controller design still has a drawback that require...

This paper presents the development of an active vibration control for vibration suppression of the horizontal flexible plate structure using proportional–integral–derivative controller tuned by a conventional method via Ziegler–Nichols and an intelligent method known as particle swarm optimization algorithm. Initially, the experimental rig was des...

Magnetorheological (MR) damper control for semi-active system is one of the areas of interest investigated to improve the ride comfort and stability of vehicle performance. Many types of controllers used to control the semi-active MR damper have recently been investigated by previous researchers. It is found that the improper design of control sche...

This volume consists of 10 chapters focusing on the intelligent method for the application of mechanical engineering. The contents of this volume cover various types of mechanical applications and it be divided into several themes following the introduction: design, modelling, and control. All chapters included in this volume are of recent knowledg...

This volume consists of 10 chapters focusing on the intelligent method for the application of mechanical engineering. The contents of this volume cover various types of mechanical applications and it be divided into several themes following the introduction: design, modelling, and control. All chapters included in this volume are of recent knowledg...

Flexible plate structure is a chosen technology used for many applications since past decades ago. However, this structure has a disadvantage that needs to be avoided which is easy to vibrate. Thus, this project presents the modelling of horizontal flexible plate system using bio-inspired flower pollination algorithm. The objective is to obtain an...

The study of the flexible manipulator system (FMS) has attracted many researchers due to its superiority of light weight and faster system response. Flexible manipulator system is an improvement from its rigid structure, however it can be easily vibrated when it subjected to disturbance. If the advantages of FMS are not to be sacrificed, an accurat...

Magnetorheological (MR) damper system is commonly used to replace the conventional damper in the suspension system due to its low power consumption, fast time response and simple structure. Since inner loop controller is very important in defining the amount of current supplied to the MR damper system, many existing controllers are found not well-s...

This paper investigates the optimization approach of PID controller for double-link flexible robotic manipulator using metaheuristic algorithm. This research focus on population-based metaheuristic that is particle swarm optimization (PSO) and artificial bees algorithm (ABC) to tune the PID control parameters of the system. In the tuning process, t...

The light weight characteristic offered by flexible structures can be easily influenced to the excessive vibration and it also brings several problems including instability, fatigue, bending and low performance. Therefore, it is compulsory to suppress the undesired vibration of flexible structures due to sustain its performance. This paper presents...

Flexible plate structure is a chosen technology used for many applications since past decades ago. However, this structure has a disadvantage that needs to be avoided which is easy to vibrate. Thus, this project presents the modelling of horizontal flexible plate system using bio-inspired flower pollination algorithm. The objective is to obtain an...

This paper presents the performance of developed model for a flexible plate structure using swarm intelligence via artificial bee colony and particle swarm optimization algorithms. An experimental rig of rectangular flexible plate with clamped-clamped-free-free edges boundary condition was designed and fabricated in this research. Then, the data ac...

Demand for the applications of flexible manipulator due to their benefits has received attention from the industries. However, the flexibility of flexible manipulator has resulted in structural vibration and needs to be studied accordingly. This paper presents the development of a laboratory facility constituting of single-link flexible manipulator...

This paper presents the modeling and active vibration control using an evolutionary swarm algorithm known as particle swarm optimization. Initially, a flexible plate experimental rig was designed and fabricated with all clamped edges as boundary conditions constrained at horizontal position. The purpose of the experimental rig development is to col...

This paper presents an investigation into the development of an intelligence parametric identification for a single-link flexible manipulator system using genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO). The global search technique of GA and PSO employ different strategies in the area of algorithm design, natural basis and computationa...

This paper presents the development of an optimal self-tuning PID controller for vibration suppression of flexible manipulator structures using particle swarm optimization (PSO). A simulation environment characterizing the dynamic behavior of the flexible manipulator system was first developed using finite difference (FD) approach to acquire the in...

This paper presents an investigation of system modeling using genetic algorithm and active vibration control of flexible plate structure. The experimental rig was designed and fabricated with free-free-clamped-clamped edges boundary condition in this research. The experimental study was conducted using experimental rig complete with data acquisitio...

This paper presents a novel Genetic Algorithms with Parameter Exchanger and its application to system identification for a single-link flexible manipulator system. A simulation environment characterizing the dynamic behavior of the flexible manipulator system was first developed using finite difference method to acquire the input-output data of the...

This paper presents the performance of system identification for rectangular flexible plate using conventional parametric modeling approach by Recursive Least Squares (RLS) and intelligent parametric modeling approach by Particle swarm Optimization (PSO). The experimental rig of rectangular flexible plate with free-free-clamped-clamped edges bounda...

This paper presents an investigation of system identification using parametric modeling approaches for a single-link flexible manipulator system. The utilization of a particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique for modeling of a highly non-linear system is studied in comparison to the conventional recursive least squares (RLS) technique. A simulati...

Energy harnessing for the purpose of powering low power electronic devices has received much attention in the last few years. By harnessing ambient energy from the environment it will eliminate the need for batteries and supplying the portable electronic devices such as cell phones, laptops and MP3 players with infinite amount of energy. The ambien...

This paper presents an investigation of an intelligence modeling technique for dynamic characterization of a single-link flexible manipulator system. The flexible manipulator system was first modeled using finite difference (FD) method. A bang-bang torque was applied as an input and the dynamic response of the system was investigated. Performance o...