Browsing 2018 IRC Articles by Document Type "Article Abstract"
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Airborne Measurement – Advanced Instrument Development Methods and Insight
(2018)Airborne measurement is required in many fields of aerospace, ranging from aircraft development and flight test, to atmospheric sciences. It involves the use of aircraft mounted instruments to measure quantities ranging ... -
Braille Blood Pressure Interpreter for Home Blood Pressure Measurement for Visually Challenged Individuals
(2018)Hypertension has slowly secured its place as the severest disease burden in the world among Global Burden of Diseases (GBD). Hypertension management programs which are employed to control the disease have identified Home ... -
Comparison on Virus Dynamics Models with Different Functional Responses Including Time Delays
(2018)A virus can be identified as an infectious mediator consisting a core of genetic material and an envelope of protein. The behavior of viruses can be modelled through mathematics, and those viral dynamics can consist a class ... -
A Computer-Based Analysis of Acoustic Properties of Sri Lankan Pirith Chants Using Voiced to Unvoiced Ratio and Probability Distribution Functions
(2018)Pirith is a special type of chanting; believed to be a protective doctrine preached by the Load Buddha in Pali language. Generally, a voice signal consists of the fundamental frequency, F0 and a series of harmonic frequencies ... -
Design and Development of a Flying Object for Inspection and Cleaning of Distribution Power Lines in Sri Lanka
(2018)Inspection, detection and cleaning are essential for the maintenance of distribution power lines (DPL). Developed countries use unmanned automated vehicles (UAVs) for this purpose. Helicopter usage is efficient but costly ... -
Development of a Budget Roof Fairing Using a CFD Analysis of Different Roof Fairing Shapes
(2018)Semi-trailer trucks are commonly used in Sri Lanka for long distance transportation. These trucks are subjected to an unfavourable high drag which makes a huge impact in fuel consumption. In order to reduce this drag, ... -
Early Warning System for Landslides Using Wireless Sensor Networks
(2018)Landslides occur in many areas in Sri Lanka, and they cause considerable damage to natural habitat, environment, economy and other resources. Monitoring, predicting and controlling are the three major challenges associated ... -
Eigenfaces Based Face Recognition Device for Visually Impaired Persons
(2018)This paper proposes to develop an embedded system based instrument for visually impaired, it is a wearable device in the form of badge holder of the patent which is designed using Raspberry Pi in addition with visual and ... -
Engineering High Performing Systems
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Factors Affecting Pedestrian Visibility At Night Time for Motor Cyclists
(2018)In Sri Lanka, most of the motorbike-pedestrian accidents happening in the night time are due to the insufficient visibility of pedestrians. Even though number of researches has been carried out globally regarding improving ... -
Impact of Human Factors on Airline Overall Maintenance Effectiveness: an Analysis of Major Aircraft Operators in Sri Lanka
(2018)Skill based error and mistakes form a significant part of the effect of aviation human factors as far as maintenance is concerned. Many air and ground incidents have been traced back to have occurred due to lapses that ... -
Influence of Vertical Greeneries to Score Points in Green Rating Systems for Multistoried Buildings in Sri Lankan Context
(2018)Green rating systems have become more significant factor to enhance green construction practice and saving energy of a building. Vertical greens and its influence on green rating systems to score more points, is the key ... -
Introducing a New Traffic Operational Strategy to Minimize Congestion on Galle Road; Dehiwala – Wellawatta
(2018)The increase in private traffic demand coupled with a number of issues such as reduced utilization of high occupancy vehicles, lack of capacity of public modes of transportation, inefficient road capacity leads to highly ... -
Investigate the Necessity of Use of Nuclear Power As an Energy Source in Sri Lanka with Special Concern on Present Nuclear Trend
(2018)The escalation of electricity demand in a country has become an unavoidable factor. Technological development and raising people’s living standards are the main reasons for increasing electricity demand. Electricity demand ... -
Light Interface of 3D Hand Motional Gesture Recognition in Human Computer Interaction
(2018)Hand gestures play a significant role in HumanComputer Interaction(HCI) where traditional interaction method like Keyboard, Mouse or Joystick induce stress and fatigue to the user when interacting with computing environments. ... -
Low Cost Real Time Temperature Monitoring System for Concrete Using Wireless Sensors
(2018)Structural health monitoring (SHM) has become an inevitable part in a life span of a structure due to its potential to ensure the public safety and to increase the life span of the structure. Monitoring any kind of structures ... -
Optimal Crew Planning Through Variable Capacity Assignment for Commercial Aircraft Flight Line Maintenance
(2018)Crew planning and scheduling is researched intensively as it affects the aviation operational costs substantially. Maintenance crew planning is an integral part of the same where less emphasis paid compared to flying crew ... -
A Review on Ultrasound Image Pre-Processing, Segmentation and Compression for Enhanced Image Storage and Transmission
(2018)Imaging is one of the key medical diagnostic tools to observe internal organs and soft tissues. One such tool is ultrasound scanning, which is highly utilized in gynecology and echo cardiogram. This is due to the number ...