Ohio University Chapter
304 Baker Center
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This lecture starts with an overview of the Avionics Engineering Center at Ohio University. Projects undertaken at the center fall into two closely related areas: the first involves correcting anomalies or improving the quality of current, established landing and en route navigational and communication systems; the second involves the study and evaluation of new systems, such as the Microwave Landing System (MLS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS), and research into the development of integrated systems, including GPS/Loran-C and GPS/Inertial Reference systems.
One research project will be discussed in detail, which involves the design and testing of a dynamic decimeter-level positioning system for an aircraft in flight. The system was flight tested on NASA Langley's Boeing 737 research aircraft.
Dr. van Graas is an internationally recognized expert on the Global Positioning System and its use for navigation and flight control. He is the recent recipient of the prestigious Johannes Kepler Award from the Institute of Navigation for "significant and sustained contributions to satellite navigation".
Dick Piccard revised this file (http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~sigmaxi/winter97.html) on February 25, 1997.
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