IEEEI&M Malaysia Talk on Robotics

Hi again

In the event you wish to further your interest into robotics and instrumentation there is a talk to be held. The details are as below:

Dear Valued IEEE Members,

IEEE I&M Malaysia Chapter is organizing one-day workshop on Robotics and Instrumentation – suitable for students, academicians and even hobbyists. The workshop allows you to have hands-on experience on designing robots and their instrumentation. Since, we have received many requests to postpone the date due to examination period in many universities, therefore, the new date has been selected and the details are as follows.

Date : Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Venue : Kulliyyah of Engineering, International Islamic University

Time : 9.00am – 4.30pm

Price : RM50 (includes robotic kits, handouts, certificates and refreshment)

Contact/ : A/Prof . Dr. Rini Akmeliawati

Registration by 09 December to rakmelia@iiu.edu.my

Instructor : Dr. Riza Muhida

Itinerary :

09.00 Opening

09.15 Introduction to Robot: History, Structure and Components

10.30 Introduction to Microcontroller

11.30 Microcontroller Programming and data acquisition using Microcontroller

13.00 Lunch/Zhuhur Prayer

14.00 Programming For Robot

15.30 Design a Line Following Robot

16.00 Simulation of Line following Robot Competition

16.30 Closing

Short biography of instructor:

Dr Riza obtained his PhD in the field of Optical Electronics from Osaka University, Japan. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Institute Technology Bandung, Indonesia; and his MSc in the field of Power Electronics from Osaka University, Japan. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the dept. Mechatronics Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia. His fields of interests: Instrumentation and Measurement, Robotics, Sensors and Actuations. He has given many workshops and trainings on Robotics and Instrumentation. He was one of the organizing committee of the International Robot Olympiad 2008. He is an active member of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Malaysia Chapter.

PS: We would appreciate if you can disseminate the information or the attached poster to your colleagues/students/universities.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Dr. Rini Akmeliawati

Chair of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement

Malaysia Chapter.

Associate Professor

Dept. Mechatronics Engineering

International Islamic University Malaysia

Jl. Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur

Ph: +60 3 6196 4508

Fax: +60 3 6196 4433