Week 3: (23/9/13 - 27/9/13)

The Rice-hopper Detector

From my discussion with Dr Zaki, he told my friend and I that the project need at least three small cameras attach to the device. The device will use some sort of chemical element to attract rice-hopper into the device. When the amount of rice-hopper is exceed the danger point, the device will trigger to alert the owner via GSM. Now we have some general idea about our FYP. My task is to design software for the device, and my friend Muslim has to design the hardware part.

At the end of the week, I heard a rumor that the students must choose a supervisor from their department only. This news has alert me and my friend, as we are electrical students while Dr Zaki is from electronic section. Further more, the students must come up with a title related to their course. Therefore, I plan to meet with Head of FYP Committee, Madam Nulida on next week. I hope this matter can be sort out as soon as possible.

Week 2: (16/9/13 - 20/9/13)

FYP Title Research

For this week, I went to discuss with Dr. Zaki about my ideas on Monday. However, he also has his own idea about his project that need students help. He asked me to do his project. The project is also about image recognition just like my two ideas. The project is a development of a prototype that can count rice-hopper. This prototype is to help the agriculture industry such as paddy field that being attack by rice-hopper. The idea is to count the amount of rice-hopper and send the data to alert the owner. He also told me that he is trying to alias with Ministry of Agriculture to fund this project. Therefore I decided to join him along side with my fellow friend Muslim Munir, to do this project.

On Thursday evening, around 3.00 pm, there was a first FYP1 briefing being held at TTL2. The head of FYP committee, Madam Nulida bt Abd Aziz told FYP1's students to find a FYP title and a supervisor as soon as possible. The last date to register the title is on 27 September 2013 which on Friday the following week. She also told us to register the title with our choice of supervisor. Its mean that I have another week to sort this out. Although I already discussed with Dr. Zaki, but my name is still not in FYP page. http://fyp.bmi.unikl.edu.my/

This week is a final week for students to register their subjects. I already done my registration on the final day which is on Friday. My Academic Adviser, Sir Nor Azman b Othman allow me take all subjects that I planed before. Everything is going great for me so far. I hope I'm able to do well in my FYP and together with other subjects.

Week 1: (9/9/13 - 13/9/13)

Registration Subjects

On the first week of September 2013 semester, as senior students returned on the following week after the MSR, everybody were busy with registration subjects. For me, I have to register the WPB49804 FINAL YEAR PROJECT 1 subject so that I can be able to do a Final Year Project for this semester. I have some general idea about my FYP1. I would like to implement the Artificial Intelligent (A.I) subject that I learned on previous semester. The idea is to use an image recognition. I already spoke to my A.I lecturer Dr Mohd Zaki b Ayob about my ideas during the short semester in July. I have two ideas to use the Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network on my FYP1.

1.  The Egg Grading System

The Egg Grading System is a machine that detect the size of egg to determine the grade. The idea is to use an image of egg, by doing the algorithm in MATLAB, one can define the grade of egg. The grade range are AA, A, B, C, and D.

2.  The Coin Detector

This project is also using the same idea as the first one. The different is, this project is to determine the value of coin. The method is still using the image recognition. The range include the old and new type of coins which are 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent.

I hope to meet with Dr Zaki by next week as I still busy with registration subjects. I plan to take just three subjects along with FYP1. I dont want to burden myself with extra credits so that I can focus more on FYP1. Here are the subjects that I plan to take for this semester.

1. BGB21103 ESSENTIAL MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES

2. BPB44103 POWER QUALITY 3

3. WEB20302 PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH 2

4. WPB49804 FINAL YEAR PROJECT 1