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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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Upper Limb Motion Recognition Based on Electromyography Signals and Support Vector Machine
(2018)The increasing requirements of the society to help physically disabilities, the old and the injured individuals to avoid many difficulties to do their dayto-day activities and increase their living condition. The upper ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
A Unit Cell Approach to Reduce Computational Time of Meshfree Based Plant Tissue Models
(2018)Plant tissue modelling and simulation has become one of the popular research topics in the field of computational mechanics. In this regard, numerous numerical modelling techniques are being researched to study real tissue ... -
Time-Series Analysis of Monthly Rainfall Data for the Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka
(2018)One of the most important climatic element is Rainfall, that directly influences on the agriculture. As a real world practice, the rainfall data has a seasonal trend with short term and long term oscillations; especially, ... -
Urbanization and Solid Waste Management Challenges: a Review of Literature
(2018)The aim of this study is to find out the Challenges of urbanization and Solid Waste Management urbanized city areas in developing countries most of these urbanizing cities and also a commercial hub, providing employment ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Seeking Professional Excellence in Water Management: Case Study on Trincomalee Water Supply Scheme
(2018)The Naval Dockyard Trincomalee is considered as the most strategic and important Naval Establishment of the Sri Lankan Navy. Naval Dockyard Trincomalee was established by the British, during the colonial era. Trincomalee ... -
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 ... -
Sustainable Water Supply Management System for Panagoda Army Cantonment
(2018)Sustainable water management is identified as an important strategic approach to minimize unnecessary costs and for proper utilization of water resources. The Panagoda army cantonment was established five decades ago and ... -
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 ... -
Smart Device for Close-Monitoring in Elder Care
(2018)Elder care is an area in modern society where a series of issues are encountered. There is a feasibility to find solutions pertaining to the issues of elder care by using wearable sensors and telemonitoring devices. This ...