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2001 ADS Seminar "Advanced Sensor Technology" Speaker List Session 1 - Mr. R. Meyerson, Seminar Chairman Session 2 - Dr. J. R. Carpenter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Session 3 - Mr. A. Kourepenis, Draper Laboratories Session 4 - Mr. K. Kiefer, Invocon 1. Introduction (30 minutes) 1.1. Typical ground and flight test approaches 1.1.1. Airdrop 1.1.2. Rocket-Launch 1.1.3. Sled Tests 1.1.4. Wind Tunnel Tests 1.2. Identify the challenges in testing flexible structures 1.2.1. Line Loads 1.2.2. Pressure Distributions 1.2.3. Fabric Stresses 1.2.4. Canopy stability and angle-of-attack 1.2.5. Rate of Descent 1.2.6. L/D 1.2.7. Dynamic Pressure 1.3. Describe current range and test capabilities 1.3.1. Survey of current test facilities/ranges (examples) 1.3.2. Standard range support equipment 1.3.2.1. Tracking equipment and data reduction 1.3.2.2. Sensors and telemetry systems 1.3.2.3. Meteorological (winds, density, etc) 1.3.2.4. Photography Support 1.4. Appendix - Datasheets of COTS stand-alone systems 2. Trajectory Reconstruction & Measurement Techniques (2 hours) 2.1. Linear Dynamic Systems 2.1.1. State space, etc. 2.1.2. Observability 2.1.3. Error propagation 2.1.4. Modeling 2.2. Optimal Filtering 2.2.1. Recursive Filters 2.2.2. Discrete Kalman Filter 2.2.3. Continuous Kalman Filter 2.2.4. Continuous/Discrete Extended Kalman Filter 2.2.5. Suboptimal Filter Design 2.2.6. Correlated Errors 2.3. Optimal Smoothing 2.3.1. Fixed-interval 2.3.2. Fixed-Point 2.3.3. Fixed-Lag 2.4. Measurement technologies 2.4.1. GPS 2.4.1.1. Code 2.4.1.2. Carrier 2.4.1.3. DGPS 2.4.1.4. Attitude Determination 2.4.1.5. "Modernization:" WAAS, LAAS, etc. 2.4.2. INS 2.4.3. GPS/INS 2.4.4. Air Data 2.4.5. NDB, VOR, DME, VORTAC 2.4.6. RADAR Altimeter 2.4.7. LIDAR 3. Advanced MEMS Sensor Technologies (2 hours) 3.1. Advantages of MEMS Technology (Why MEMS?) 3.2. System applications and examples of MEMS as an enabling technology 3.3. Describe potential uses in ADS applications 3.3.1. State of the art MEMS Inertial systems and GPS 3.3.2. Instrumentation, Actuation, and Monitoring of Parafoils 3.3.2.1. Roll, attitude, pitch 3.3.2.2. Integrated health monitoring. Warning of imminent failure? 3.3.2.3. Vibration/acoustic sensing 3.3.2.4. Pressure/Strain Gauge 3.3.3. Internetted MEMs-based RF Wireless Networks as applied to ADS 3.4. The future of MEMS 4. Smart Networks Technologies (2 hours)4. 4.1. Why Smart Wireless Networks? 4.1.1. Performance Advantages 4.1.2. What are the "smarts" 4.1.3. Smart Network markets 4.1.4. Performance and feature drivers in the market. 4.1.5. Data reduction within the network 4.1.6. Opportunities for "open architecture" systems 4.1.7. Network interfaces with standard/non-standard transducers 4.2. Examples of Wireless Applications 4.2.1. System descriptions 4.2.2. ADS as well as other applications both past and present 4.2.3. Wireless applications to canopy aerodynamic measurement 4.2.4. Wireless applications to shroud and harness measurements 4.2.5. Applications of wireless to strain, temperature, and non-standard transducers 4.3. Wireless Smart System Architecture 4.3.1. Radio characteristics and interface. 4.3.2. Network controller 4.3.3. Open architecture processor 4.3.4. Data acquisition hardware - digital and analog functions 4.3.5. Power issues within the system architecture. 4.4. Communications technology supporting network data acquisition 4.4.1. Spread Spectrum Communications 4.4.2. Significance of bandwidth 4.4.3. Coding technology 4.4.4. AI and smart network operations 4.5. Future applications 4.5.1. Near term applications that will fly within 1 year. 4.5.2. R&D efforts to produce new apps that will fly within 3 years. 4.5.3. Wireless networks and MEMS 4.6. Use of Wireless data acquisition in VHM (Vehicle Health monitoring) 4.7. Use of Wireless data systems in flight control applications WFCS (Wireless Flight Control Systems) 5. Open Q&A with all speakers (45 minutes)