ATI's Integrated Navigation Systems Guidance, Navigation, and Control Techniques Course

1. Inertial Navigation Systems. Fundamental Concepts. Schuller pendulum errors. Strapdown implementations. Ring laser gyros. The Sagnac effect. Monolithic ring laser gyros. Fiber optic gyros. Advanced strapdown implementations.
2. Radionavigation’s Precise Position-Fixing Techniques. Active and passive radionavigation systems. Pseudoranging solutions. Nanosecond timing accuracies. The quantum-mechanical principles of cesium and rubidium atomic clocks. Solving for the user’s position.
3. Integrated Navigation Systems. Intertial navigation. Gimballing and strapdown navigation. Open-loop and closed-loop implementations. Transfer alignment techniques. Kalman filters and their state variable selections. Test results.
4. Hardware Units for Inertial Navigation. Solid-state accelerometers. Initializing today’s strapdown inertial navigation systems. Coordinate rotations and direction cosine matrices. Advanced strapdown concepts. Hardware units. Spaceborne inertial navigation systems.
5. Military Applications of Integrated Navigation. Translator implementations at military test ranges. Military performance specifications. Military test results. Tactical applications. The Trident Accuracy Improvement Program. Tomahawk cruise missiles.
6. Navigation Solutions and Kalman Filtering Techniques. Ultra precise navigation solutions. Solving for the user’s velocity. Evaluating the geometrical dilution of precision. Kalman filtering techniques. The covariance matrices and their physical interpretations. Typical state variable selections. Monte Carlo simulations.
7. Smart bombs, Guided Missiles, and Artillery Projectiles. Beam-riders and their destructive potential. Smart bombs and their demonstrated accuracies. Smart and rugged artillery projectiles. The Paveway IV smart bombs.
8. Spaceborne Applications of Integrated Navigation Systems. On-orbit position-fixing on early satellites. The Twin Grace satellites. Guiding tomorrow’s booster rockets. Attitude determinations for
  the International Space Station. Cesium fountain clocks in space. Relativistic corrections for radionavigation satellites.
9. Today’s Guidance and Control for Deep Space Missions. Putting ICBM’s through their paces. Guiding tomorrow’s highly demanding missions from the Earth to Mars. JPL’s awesome new interplanetary pinball machines. JPL’s deep space network. Autonomous robots swarming along the space frontier. Driving along tomorrow’s unpaved freeways in the sky.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Thomas S. Logsdon has accumulated more than 30 years experience with the Naval Ordinance Laboratory, McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed Martin, Boeing Aerospace, and Rockwell International. His research projects and consulting assignments have included the Tartar and Talos shipboard missiles, Project Skylab, and various deep space interplanetary probes and missions. Mr. Logsdon has also worked extensively on the Navstar GPS, including military applications, constellation design and coverage studies. He has taught and lectured in 31 different countries on six continents and he has written and published 1.7 million words, including 29 technical books. His textbooks include Striking It Rich in Space, Understanding the Navstar, Mobile Communication Satellites, and Orbital Mechanics: Theory and Applications. Dr. Walter R. Dyer is a graduate of UCLA, with a Ph.D. degree in Control Systems Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He has over thirty years of industry, government and academic experience in the analysis and design of tactical and strategic missiles. His experience includes Standard Missile, Stinger, AMRAAM, HARM, MX, Small ICBM, and ballistic missile defense. He is currently a Senior Staff Member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and was formerly the Chief Technologist at the Missile Defense Agency in Washington, DC. He has authored numerous industry and government reports and published prominent papers on missile technology. He has also taught university courses in engineering at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.