IEEE Melbourne Aerospace - Verifying a Simulation with Back of the Envelope Calculation
6:15 - Pizza and Networking
6:30 - Presentation
Simulations are a crucial tool for systems engineers, and I have coded, developed, analyzed, tested, debugged and debunked many such simulations. However, they cannot be trusted. All too often system engineers come a cropper due to believing the results of simulations without making sure that the results are correct and relevant. Significant errors can occur for many reasons: bugs, bugs, bugs, incorrect parameters, incorrect physical models, incorrect application of perfectly fine code, incorrect interpretation of accurate results, etc. I was deeply shaped by a system
engineering culture that valued simple back-of-the-envelope calculations to provide insight into what was going on. Moreover, I am appalled when I see system engineers blindly believe the
results of simulations. My talk will give five or ten examples of system engineering blunders caused by faulty simulations or erroneous physical experiments, as well as two surprising twists.
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Fred Daum is an IEEE Fellow, a senior principal Fellow at Raytheon, and a graduate of Harvard University. Fred was awarded the Tom Phillips prize for technical excellence, in recognition of his ability to make complex radar systems work in the real world.
He developed, analyzed and tested the real time algorithms for essentially all the large long range phased array radars built by the USA in the last four decades, including: Cobra Dane, PAVE PAWS, Cobra Judy, BMEWS, THAAD, ROTHR, UEWR, and SBX, as well as several shipboard firecontrol systems and air traffic control systems. These real time algorithms include: extended Kalman filters, radar waveform scheduling, Bayesian discrimination, data association, discrimination of satellites from missiles, calibration of tropospheric and ionospheric refraction, and target object mapping. Fred's exact fixed finite dimensional nonlinear filter theory generalizes the Kalman and Beneš filters.
He has published nearly one hundred technical papers, and he has given invited lectures at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Caltech, Brown, Georgia Tech., Univ. of Connecticut, Univ. of Minnesota, Melbourne Univ., Univ. of New South Wales, Univ. of Canterbury, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Washington Univ. at St Louis, McMaster Univ. and Northeastern University.
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- Date: 04 Oct 2018
- Time: 06:15 PM to 08:00 PM
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- Florida Institute of Technology
- 150 West University Blvd
- Melbourne, Florida
- United States 32901
- Building: Skurla Hall
- Room Number: 102
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- Co-sponsored by Bob Beck
- Starts 03 September 2018 09:00 AM
- Ends 03 October 2018 12:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Fred Daum is an IEEE Fellow, a senior principal Fellow at Raytheon, and a graduate of Harvard University. Fred was awarded the Tom Phillips prize for technical excellence, in recognition of his ability to make complex radar systems work in the real world.
He developed, analyzed and tested the real time algorithms for essentially all the large long range phased array radars built by the USA in the last four decades, including: Cobra Dane, PAVE PAWS, Cobra Judy, BMEWS, THAAD, ROTHR, UEWR, and SBX, as well as several shipboard firecontrol systems and air traffic control systems. These real time algorithms include: extended Kalman filters, radar waveform scheduling, Bayesian discrimination, data association, discrimination of satellites from missiles, calibration of tropospheric and ionospheric refraction, and target object mapping. Fred's exact fixed finite dimensional nonlinear filter theory generalizes the Kalman and Beneš filters.
He has published nearly one hundred technical papers, and he has given invited lectures at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Caltech, Brown, Georgia Tech., Univ. of Connecticut, Univ. of Minnesota, Melbourne Univ., Univ. of New South Wales, Univ. of Canterbury, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Washington Univ. at St Louis, McMaster Univ. and Northeastern University.
Biography:
Fred Daum is an IEEE Fellow, a senior principal Fellow at Raytheon, and a graduate of Harvard University. Fred was awarded the Tom Phillips prize for technical excellence, in recognition of his ability to make complex radar systems work in the real world.
He developed, analyzed and tested the real time algorithms for essentially all the large long range phased array radars built by the USA in the last four decades, including: Cobra Dane, PAVE PAWS, Cobra Judy, BMEWS, THAAD, ROTHR, UEWR, and SBX, as well as several shipboard firecontrol systems and air traffic control systems. These real time algorithms include: extended Kalman filters, radar waveform scheduling, Bayesian discrimination, data association, discrimination of satellites from missiles, calibration of tropospheric and ionospheric refraction, and target object mapping. Fred's exact fixed finite dimensional nonlinear filter theory generalizes the Kalman and Beneš filters.
He has published nearly one hundred technical papers, and he has given invited lectures at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Caltech, Brown, Georgia Tech., Univ. of Connecticut, Univ. of Minnesota, Melbourne Univ., Univ. of New South Wales, Univ. of Canterbury, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Washington Univ. at St Louis, McMaster Univ. and Northeastern University.