| Myron Kayton |
 Dr. Kayton has 50 years of experience designing and testing avionic, navigation, communication, and computer-automation systems. As a Consulting Engineer for Kayton Engineering Company, he worked on several automotive electronic systems, automated process systems, upper-stage spacecraft, a satellite interceptor, commercial communication systems, numerous aircraft avionic systems, and a dozen land navigators. He has conducted several score forensic inspections and analyses. From 1968-81 at TRW, Dr. Kayton served as Chief Engineer for Spacelab avionics, Head of System Engineering for Space Shuttle avionics, and Project Engineer for the electronics of the Inertial Upper Stage and a nuclear power plant, among many assignments. From 1965-68, Dr. Kayton served as Deputy Manager for Lunar Module Guidance and Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, where his office directed the contractors designing two inertial navigation systems, an alignment telescope, the flight controls, crew station and two radars. From 1960-65, he was Section Head at Litton's Guidance and Control Division, where he designed and analyzed some of the earliest multi-sensor navigation systems. Dr. Kayton is a registered electrical and mechanical engineer. He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), was an elected member of the corporate Board of Directors, and served two terms as President of its Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. He taught simulation methods, multi-sensor navigation systems, and land navigation at UCLA and published more than 80 papers and articles. He conducts technical seminars throughout the world as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is the author of the standard reference text, AVIONICS NAVIGATION SYSTEMS (first and second editions) and of NAVIGATION: LAND, SEA, AIR AND SPACE. He is the recipient of IEEE's Millennium Medal, IEEE-AES's Carlton Award for the best technical paper of 1988, and ION's Kershner Award for Navigation. Dr. Kayton received the Ph.D. in Instrumentation from M.I.T. in 1960, the M.S. from Harvard University with a concentration in electrical engineering, and the B.S. in mechanical engineering from The Cooper Union. He is listed in WHO'S WHO IN ENGINEERING, WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA, and AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN OF SCIENCE. He is an instrument-rated pilot and holds an FAA Project Raincheck certificate in Air Traffic Control. He is interested in history, languages, and tennis. Contact Information: Lectures: Evolution of Aircraft Avionics, 1.2 hoursAvionic Subsystems State of the Art in 1955 Antenna farm and avionics bay Wiring and Data Bus System architecture 1910-present Software Cabin Electronics Avionics Hardware Testing Air Traffic Control Military-Unique Avionics Bibliography Backside Lunar Observatory, 1 hour Radio astronomy Lunar librations Location of backside observatory Landing the observatory on the Moon Data transmission to Earth cables and relay station Lagrangian satellite Trans-lunar trajectories Construction Maintenance Preliminary design Bibliography History of Navigation and Mapping, 1 hour Mapping activities of early explorers navigation "schools" Trade and travel Latitude and longitude measurement Speed and heading measurement Radio broadcast of time GPS Land navigation Milestones in marine navigation Milestones in air navigation Space: orbit determination and manuevers Tutorials: Avionics for Manned Spacecraft, 2 hours Earliest spacecraft, X-15 Ballistic spacecraft, US and Russian Space stations, US and Russian Space Shuttle On-board vs ground navigation Tracking networks and TDRS Shuttle upgrade, return to Moon Manned missions to Mars Navigation Systems, 1.5 hours Absolute navigation versus dead reckoning Guidance versus navigation Characteristics of navigation systems for aircraft, automobiles, ships, spacecraft Importance of timing in radio systems Description of dead-reckoning systems Cost and accuracy Future Bibliography 100 Years of Inertial Navigation, 1.5 hours Antecedents; marine gyrocompass and gunfire control Gyroscopes Accelerometers Gimbal sets Strap-down configurations Computers: analog to digital Software Calibration and alignment Future trends Bibliography A Practitioner's View of System Engineering, 1.5 hours For complex projects using new technology Various meanings of "system engineering" Early trade-off studies in performance, cost, reliability Mid-phase inter-subsystem conflicts Late-phase configuration control Final phase decommissioning Relation to Project Management Historical examples of large-scale and small-scale systems |
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