Muralindran Mariappan
Universiti Malaysia Sabah, School of Engineering, Faculty Member
- Academic and research interest in robotics, drones, intelligent systems, robotic education and STEM.edit
The Malaysian Education Blueprint has focused its aspirations to equip students with unparalleled thinking skills. The implementation of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) has push students to have the ability to solve problems which it... more
The Malaysian Education Blueprint has focused its aspirations to equip students with unparalleled thinking skills. The implementation of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) has push students to have the ability to solve problems which it is observed to be lacking. Thus, Computational Thinking (CompT) is proposed as a strategy to advocate solving problem skills among students. Other than that, its introduction to the curricula aims in yielding digital creators in this digital era. Howver, it has its misconceptions and has been perceived similar to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Thus, this paper aims to change the perception of CompT and present techniques that can be put into use to promote solving problem skills among students. At the same time, it can complement the effort of enhancing HOTS among students
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Mobile robots are expensive for developing and under developed countries. Their utilizations are general in field of medicine, from neurosurgery to intensive care units. Our ongoing project "OTOROB" which stands for Ortho-pedic Robot is... more
Mobile robots are expensive for developing and under developed countries. Their utilizations are general in field of medicine, from neurosurgery to intensive care units. Our ongoing project "OTOROB" which stands for Ortho-pedic Robot is more specific for the usage of orthopedic surgeons with special consideration on its cost effectiveness. Statistical analysis of the survey conducted helped to identify the requirement of orthopedic surgeons to make OTOROB more specific. A new concept of VIrtual Presence (VIP) Specialist Clinic and Roboscope are discussed.
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Telepresence Mobile Robots have prominent attributes in many fields as it provides virtual presence for human robot interaction. The deployment of this robot in healthcare sector has improved patient care and health. The vision system in... more
Telepresence Mobile Robots have prominent attributes in many fields as it provides virtual presence for human robot interaction. The deployment of this robot in healthcare sector has improved patient care and health. The vision system in a telepresence robot allows two way audiovisual communication between people at different location. In spite of such advancement, the manual way of controlling a robot to recognise and track people during an emergency is not favourable for a long duration. To circumvent this problem, biometric method using human face is proposed in this research which is implemented on Medical Telediagnosis Robot. This paper details the design of the face recognition and tracking system with four automated modules which are motion detection, face detection, face recognition and face tracking. The modules are developed with different algorithm and tested individually to ensure the stability of the system. Artificial Intelligence technique was applied at the face reco...
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Electrocardiogram (ECG) is undoubtedly the gold method for assessing heart activities. However, the ECG machine for measuring ECG is mostly only available in health care center especially in the third-world countries. Therefore, this... more
Electrocardiogram (ECG) is undoubtedly the gold method for assessing heart activities. However, the ECG machine for measuring ECG is mostly only available in health care center especially in the third-world countries. Therefore, this research proposed to utilize the product of National Instruments i.e. LabVIEW Biomedical Toolkit and data acquisition device as an alternative approach to acquire ECG features and heart beat rate (HBR). As for performances verification, the NI-LabVIEW instruments are tested simultaneously with two types of ECG machine which are Philips PageWriter TC 30 and KenZ ECG 108. The results indicated that the ECG features and HBR obtained from NI-LABVIEW instruments are agreed well with the measurements attained from both of the ECG machines. Hence, this study proved that NI-LabVIEW instruments are highly potent for measuring ECG features and HBR. Moreover, the computerized NI-LabVIEW instruments with the self-interpretation function can always outperform most of the conventional ECG machines that are still required cardiologists for manually interpreting the results printed on the ECG paper.
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Robotics in medical field has advanced vastly since many decades ago. Although with our existing technology robots can only assist doctors and not replace them. Therefore an Internet Controlled Non-Interventional Mobile Robot for... more
Robotics in medical field has advanced vastly since many decades ago. Although with our existing technology robots can only assist doctors and not replace them. Therefore an Internet Controlled Non-Interventional Mobile Robot for Orthopaedic Surgeon or simply OTOROB is developed to aid Orthopaedic Surgeons to diagnose patients in remote places where specialists are unavailable and internet bandwidth is low. In this paper, a design methodology to transmit video for controlling OTOROB in low bandwidth condition is presented. The design uses video compression scaling and scheduling to improve bandwidth usage efficiency. A more stable video transmission for controlling the OTOROB is achieved by maintaining the frame rate in spite of low bandwidth connection.
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Abstract-Telemedicine is a new and promising application in the field of medical science. Medical consulting and remote medical procedures or examinations became more effective with the development of interactive audiovisual systems and... more
Abstract-Telemedicine is a new and promising application in the field of medical science. Medical consulting and remote medical procedures or examinations became more effective with the development of interactive audiovisual systems and remote mobile robotic platforms. Tele-presence ...
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The main task of a mobile robot is to perform navigation and positioning. Common mobile robot which employs line tracking system can only work on pre-constructed track where else infrared guided robot only can work within infrared's... more
The main task of a mobile robot is to perform navigation and positioning. Common mobile robot which employs line tracking system can only work on pre-constructed track where else infrared guided robot only can work within infrared's line of sight. In addition to that, the wheel driving system of the mobile robot plays a vital role in allowing the robot to navigate along a limited direction depending on its wheel architecture. To steer a robot in any direction and to know its precise location in the environment is the ultimate goal of mobile robot navigation. To achieve this, a methodology is laid out in this paper. An Optical Tracking Device (OTD) module is utilized to provide the accurate coordinates of the current location of the robot virtually on many flat surfaces. A holonomic wheel system is designed to allow the robot to navigate through multiple destinations. A navigation algorithm is developed to position the robot to any point accurately on a flat surface. This will allow the robot to freely move in any direction to reach multiple target destinations without any difficulties.
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... Muralindran Mariappan*, Thayabaren Ganesan, Vigneswaran Ramu, and Muhammad Iftikhar Robotics & Bio-Medical Engineering Research Group (RoBiMed), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia... more
... Muralindran Mariappan*, Thayabaren Ganesan, Vigneswaran Ramu, and Muhammad Iftikhar Robotics & Bio-Medical Engineering Research Group (RoBiMed), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia murali.ums@gmail.com Abstract. ...
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... Muralindran Mariappan*, Thayabaren Ganesan, Vigneswaran Ramu, and Muhammad Iftikhar Robotics & Bio-Medical Engineering Research Group (RoBiMed), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia... more
... Muralindran Mariappan*, Thayabaren Ganesan, Vigneswaran Ramu, and Muhammad Iftikhar Robotics & Bio-Medical Engineering Research Group (RoBiMed), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia murali.ums@gmail.com Abstract. ...
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Robotics in medical field has advanced vastly since many decades ago. Although with our existing technology robots can only assist doctors and not replace them. Therefore an Internet Controlled Non-Interventional Mobile Robot for... more
Robotics in medical field has advanced vastly since many decades ago. Although with our existing technology robots can only assist doctors and not replace them. Therefore an Internet Controlled Non-Interventional Mobile Robot for Orthopaedic Surgeon or simply OTOROB is developed to aid Orthopaedic Surgeons to diagnose patients in remote places where specialists are unavailable and internet bandwidth is low. In this paper, a design methodology to transmit video for controlling OTOROB in low bandwidth condition is presented. The design uses video compression scaling and scheduling to improve bandwidth usage efficiency. A more stable video transmission for controlling the OTOROB is achieved by maintaining the frame rate in spite of low bandwidth connection.
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Mobile robots are expensive for developing countries and their utilization are general in the field of medicine, from neurosurgery to intensive care units. Our ongoing project... more
Mobile robots are expensive for developing countries and their utilization are general in the field of medicine, from neurosurgery to intensive care units. Our ongoing project "OTOROB" is more specific for orthopedic surgeons with special consideration on its cost effectiveness. Data analysis of our survey, during the first phase helped us to find requirements of orthopaedic surgeons to make it
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The main task of a mobile robot is to perform navigation and positioning. Common mobile robot which employs line tracking system can only work on pre-constructed track where else infrared guided robot only can work within infrared's... more
The main task of a mobile robot is to perform navigation and positioning. Common mobile robot which employs line tracking system can only work on pre-constructed track where else infrared guided robot only can work within infrared's line of sight. In addition to that, the wheel driving system of the mobile robot plays a vital role in allowing the robot to navigate along a limited direction depending on its wheel architecture. To steer a robot in any direction and to know its precise location in the environment is the ultimate goal of mobile robot navigation. To achieve this, a methodology is laid out in this paper. An Optical Tracking Device (OTD) module is utilized to provide the accurate coordinates of the current location of the robot virtually on many flat surfaces. A holonomic wheel system is designed to allow the robot to navigate through multiple destinations. A navigation algorithm is developed to position the robot to any point accurately on a flat surface. This will a...
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Abstract-Telemedicine is a new and promising application in the field of medical science. Medical consulting and remote medical procedures or examinations became more effective with the development of interactive audiovisual systems and... more
Abstract-Telemedicine is a new and promising application in the field of medical science. Medical consulting and remote medical procedures or examinations became more effective with the development of interactive audiovisual systems and remote mobile robotic platforms. Tele-presence ...
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Concept of underactuation makes it possible to create such robotic hands that automatically adapt to the shape of the grasped object without using a complex control system or a large number of actuators. In underactuated hand prostheses,... more
Concept of underactuation makes it possible to create such robotic hands that automatically adapt to the shape of the grasped object without using a complex control system or a large number of actuators. In underactuated hand prostheses, depending upon control strategy used, one can get more and more degree of freedoms (DOFs) to make its prosthetic device more versatile and easy to control. In spite of all the great work done by the researchers on underactuated prosthetic hands, no one has given any relationship between the number of motors (or actuators) and the number of degree of freedoms (DOFs). This novel concept named as "Coefficient of UAM" (CoUAM) is "the ratio between numbers of motors to the number of DOFs". By reviewing various known studies, CoUAM of randomly selected prosthetic hands is calculated separately and analyzed merits/demerits, cost, weight, appearance, ease of controllability and their functionality to make this approach more objective and...