Publications, Conferences and Lectures

Myron Kayton, PhD, P.E.

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PUBLICATIONS OF MYRON KAYTON

BOOKS AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Kayton, M., "Navigation Systems". Chapter 13 of THE AVIONICS HANDBOOK edited by C.R. Spitzer. CRC Press, 2001 and Second Edition 2006.

Kayton, M., "War and Peace", Chapter 11 in ENGINEERING TOMORROW, edited by J. Fouke, IEEE Press 2000.

Kayton, M. and W.R. Fried, AVIONICS NAVIGATION SYSTEMS, John Wiley and Sons. Second Edition 1997, First Edition 1969. Senior editor and author of four chapters. This is a standard reference text in the industry. [ Order from publisher] | [ Order from amazon.com ] 

Kayton, M., "Navigation Systems", in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING HANDBOOK (ed. R.C. Dorf). CRC-Times-Mirror Press, 1993. Rewritten for Second Edition, 1996, pg. 2469-2476, and for Third Edition 2006.

Kayton, M., "Space Navigation" in CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AERONAUTICS AND SPACE SYSTEMS (ed. M. Pelegrin and W. Hollister). Pergamon Press, 1993. pg. 291-302.

Kayton, M., Tables and interview for "The Automating of the Airplane". SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, July 1991. pg. 96-97.

Kayton, M., NAVIGATION: LAND, SEA, AIR AND SPACE. IEEE Press,  1990. 461 pgs.  Order from amazon.com

TECHNICAL PAPERS (selected)

Kayton, M., "Backside Lunar Observatory", IEEE Aerosapce and Electronic Systems Magazine, November 2005.

Kayton, M., "Fifty Years of Aircraft and Spacecraft Electronics". IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, October 2000. Invited Paper for Jubilee issue.

Kayton, M. and R. Ogan, "System Engineering, Consumer and Infrastructure Approaches". INCOSE Tenth International Symposium, July 2000.

"One Hundred Years of Inertial Navigation", IEEE Position Location and Navigation Symposium, March 2000.

Kayton, M., "A Practitioner's View of System Engineering". IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS. April 1997.

Major contributor to AIAA Position Paper, "Potential Threat of Near-Earth Object Impact". August 1995.

Kayton, M., Invited essay, "Adding Muscle to a Downsized Aerospace Industry." IEEE SPECTRUM, January 1995.

Kayton, M., Monthly editorials on technical and professional topics for IEEE SYSTEMS MAGAZINE, January 1993-December 1994

Kayton, M., "Standardization of Intelligent Vehicles and Highways."  J. OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING, British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, October 1991, pg. 193-197.

Kayton, M., "Extra-Terrestrial Contacts: Fact or Fantasy". IEEE AEROSPACE MAGAZINE, April 1991.

Major contributor to IEEE Position Paper on Modular Standard Avionics Architecture, October 1990.

Contributor to Department of Transportation's REPORT TO CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT VEHICLE AND HIGHWAY SYSTEMS. DoT Report P-37-90-1, March 1990. 63 pgs.

Kayton, M., "Herbert Hoover in China". IEEE Aerospace and  Electronic Systems Magazine, Feb. 1990. pg. 33-34. 

Kayton, M., "Avionics for Manned Spacecraft". IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, November 1989. 42 pgs.

Kayton, M., "Animal Navigation: The Ultimate Neural Network". IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Society Magazine. March 1989.  Pg. 3-7.

Kayton, M., "Navigation, Ships to Space". IEEE Transactions on  Aerospace and Electronic Systems, September 1988. 45 pgs.

Kayton, M. "Safety System Software". TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, Nov.-Dec. 1987.

Kayton, M., "Too Much Security?" IEEE SPECTRUM, August 1987. pg. 8.

Kayton, M., "Expert Systems, How New Are They?". IEEE COMPUTER, September 1986.

Kayton, M. et al, "Summary of NBS Workshop on Reliable Process Controls." IEEE Computer, Sept. 1984.

Kayton, M., "Comment on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Airbags". U.S. Department of Transportation hearing presided by Secretary Dole, Los Angeles. Written testimony 12 November 1983, oral testimony 29 November 1983.

Kayton, M., "Ballistic Missile Defense." The Los Angeles Times. November 1982. "Avoiding Accidental War". Op-Ed essay.

Kayton, M., "Why U.S. Cars Aren't Selling." The Engineer of California. June 1982.

Kayton, M., "Steady-State and Dynamic Performance of an OTEC Plant." I.E.E.E. Transactions on Power Apparatus and System. March 1981. Also at Sixth OTEC Conference, June 1979, and at IEEE Summer
Power Meeting, 1980.

Kayton, M., "The Europeanization of America." The New York Times, February 1980. Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune. Op-Ed essay.

Kayton, M., "Nuclear Power-Yes: The Three Mile Island Accident." The New York Times. April 1979. Op-Ed essay.

Kinginger, J., M. Kayton, et al, "Study of Remote Multiplexing for Power Plant Applications." ISA Transactions. Vol. 18, No.2, 1979 .

Kayton, M., "The Low and High of It; A Plea for Restoration of U.S.  Technical Leadership." The New York Times, November 1978. Reprinted in the Minneapolis Tribune and International Herald Tribune. Op-Ed essay.

Kayton, M., "Verification Cost of Utility-Industry Software." I.E.E.E. COMPSAC Conference, November 1977.

Kayton, M., "Design-to-Cost of Spacelab Avionic System." I.E.E.E. Digital Avionics Conference, October 1977.

Kayton, M., "Specification, Cost and Reliability of Power-Plant Electronics." Power Engineerinq. October 1977.

Kayton, M. , A. Long and J. Kinginger, "Functional Requirements, Availability, and Cost Analysis of Remote Multiplexing in Power Plants." I.E.E.E. Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems, October 1977.

Kayton, M. and J. Kinginger, "Study of Remote Multiplexing for Power Plant Applications", 3 volumes. EPRI Report NP-254, July 1976 prepared under contract to TRW. Comparison of four designs to circuit-board level, including effect of entire plant on cost and availability. Appendix A is a fundamental work on fault tolerance of electronics. Thanks in part to this report, multiplexing is now widely implemented in generating stations.

Kayton, M., "Design-to-Cost for Development Contracts." A.I.A.A. Twelfth Propulsion Conference. July 1976.

Kayton, M., "Keeping Engineering within Budget." Technology Review. January 1976. Some of it reprinted on pg. 18 of AUGUSTINE'S LAWS by N.R. Augustine, AIAA Press 1983.

Kayton, M., "The Design of an Avionic System to Meet Cost Goals." A.S.M.E. Reliability and Maintainability Conference, January 1974.

Kayton, M., and H.S.E. Tsou, "Self-Test Techniques for Redundant  Data Management System." NASA Shuttle Avionics Conference, May 1971.

Kayton, M., and W.A. Klein, "The Determination of Avionics Redundancy for Minimum Cost." Eighth Space Congress, April 1971.

Kayton, M., "Hot Line for Ballistic Missile Defense." Aeronautics and Astronautics. August 1969.

Kayton, M., "The Near Field of the ILS Glide Slope." I.E.E.E. Transactions of Professional Group on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

Kayton, M., "Apollo Lunar Ascent and Descent." ION Conference on Non-hardware Aspects of Space Navigation. March 1967.

Kayton, M., and R.C. Gilbert, "Effect of Component Orthogonality on Aircraft Inertial System Errors." A.I.A.A. Paper 64-237. June 1964.

Kayton, M., "Drift of a Stable Platform Caused by Gyro Rotor Unbalance." in PROGRESS IN AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS, vol. 13, GUIDANCE AND CONTROL. Academic Press, 1964.

Kayton, M., "Gyro Torquing signals at an Arbitrary Azimuth on an Ellipsoidal Earth." A.I.A.A. Journal. December 1963.

Kayton, M., Review of "Continuous Measurements of Gravity on Board a Moving Surface Ship" by Tsuboi, et al. Geophysics. October 1962.

Kayton, M., "Relativistic Limitations on Inertial Measurements." A.R.S. Journal. June 1962.

Kayton, M., "Fundamental Limitations on Inertial Measurements." in PROGRESS IN ASTRONAUTICS AND ROCKETRY, Vol. 8, GUIDANCE AND CONTROL. Academic Press, 1962.

Wrigley, W. J. Hovorka, et al, INERTIAL GUIDANCE - TERRESTRIAL AND INTERPLANETARY. M.I.T. Press 1960.

Kayton, M., "Coordinate Frames in Inertial Navigation." M.I.T. Instrumentation Laboratory Report T-260. September 1960 (Ph.D.thesis).

Kayton, M., "Drift of an Attitude Control Gyro Platform During Sustained Acceleration." S.T.L. Second Ballistic Missile Symposium.  June 1957.

LECTURER

IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in Avionics, Navigation, Product Defects, System Engineering. 1985-present in USA, Canada, Finland, Spain, Hong Kong, India, Brazil, Uruguay.

UCLA Lecturer and Course Organizer
     - Multi-sensor Navigation, 1969-70. Conventional and Kalman filters for practical navigation systems.
     - Power Plant Simulation, 1978-82. Lectured on plant controls, multi-variable controls, optimization, simulators and trainers, software development.
     - Land Navigation, 1988. Lectured on inertial, radio and magnetic sensors; mechanization of navigators for various applications, error analysis, cartography, environment, etc.

Lectured at I.E.E.E. all-day class, "Digital Electronics in the Power Industry", April 1980.

Frequent guest lecturer on multiplex systems at USC class, "Instrumentation of Power Plants", 1977-78.

"Electronics in Power Systems". I.E.E.E. Power Engineering Society, 1978. Lectured on multiplexers and served as panelist for "Future Applications of Multiplexers" and "Computer System Repair".

"Terrestrial Navigation Systems". M.I.T. summer class, July 1960.

"Gyroscope Instrument Theory". Teaching Assistant at MIT, 1958-60. 

CONFERENCES

Member, Board of Directors, Electronic Conventions, Inc. 2000-2001. 
Produces WESCON, NORTHCON, MIDCON and SOUTHCON conferences and trade shows.

Chairman, Automotive Testing, at IEEE Autotestcon Conference, August 1998.

Chairman of panel and keynote speaker, "Navigation in Year 2045".  Institute of Navigation Annual Meeting, June 1995.

Keynote speaker, "What is System Engineering?", at IEEE International Conference on System Engineering, Dayton, Ohio, August 1991. 

Keynote speaker, Institute of Navigation Annual Meeting, San Diego January 1994.

Luncheon Speaker, "The Future of Engineering in the United States". IEEE 9th Battery Conference, CalState University Long Beach, January 1994.

Organized IEEE Delegation to the Indian Space Research Organization, July 1992. Edited February 1993 IEEE SYSTEMS MAGAZINE issue devoted to the visits.

Chairman of the Board, IEEE WINCON Conference. 1991. Member of Board 1983-1991. I terminated the conference in 1992 due to an obsolete format and lack of corporate support. Distributed surplus to IEEE owners.

Tutorials Chairman, IEEE Position Location and Navigation Seminar, March 1992. Organized eight half-day tutorials.

Organized measurement tutorials, IEEE "Instrumentation and Measurement Technology" Conference, Jan. 1984. Organized tutorials including chemical transducers.

Panelist at "Diagnostics" Session and two "Process Control Workshops" at IEEE/National Bureau of Standards "Conference on Reliable Systems", Dec. 1983.

Chaired "Fault-Tolerant Flight Controls" Session at AIAA "Computers in Aerospace" Conference, October 1977.

Chaired "Instrumentation and Navigation" Session, 1964 WESCON conference.

Panelist on "Hardware Aspects - the 432 Chip", at IEEE/AIAA "Fault Tolerant Computer" Conference, Fort Worth, November 1982.

Panelist at "Software Reliability Symposium", IEEE Reliability Society, May 1979.

Panelist at "Electronics vs. Conventional Controls", American Power Conference, Chicago, 1977.

Panelist at "Space Test Payloads" Conference, Air Force Space Division, 1976.

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