Myron Kayton, PhD, is President of Kayton Engineering Company, with forty years of experience designing avionic,
navigation, communication, and process systems. He has served as TRW's Chief Engineer for Spacelab avionics, Head
of System Engineering for Space Shuttle avionics, and Project Engineer for the electronics of the Inertial Upper
Stage. During the Apollo project, he was Deputy Manager for Lunar Module Guidance and Control at NASA's Johnson
Space Center and is a former section head at Litton's Guidance and Control Division, where he designed some of
the earliest multisensor navigation systems. Dr. Kayton is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) and an elected member of the corporate board of directors. An instrument-rated pilot, he also
holds an FAA Project Raincheck certificate in air traffic control.
Fried, Walter R. :
Walter R. Fried, MS, is a navigation systems consultant who is widely known in the field of navigation. In his
long career in aerospace electronics, he has worked on most types of navigation systems, as well as on air traffic
management, airborne radar, antennas, and communication systems. He was instrumental in developing a new FM-CW
Doppler navigation radar for helicopters that is still in widespread use. Mr. Fried was Chief Scientist for Subsystems
of the F-111 Avionics System and Technical Director of the JTIDS Relative Navigation System. He served on the FAA-commissioned
Blue-Ribbon RTCA Task Force on the "Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Transition and Implementation
Strategy" and on several other GPS-related RTCA Committees. A Fellow of the IEEE, he is a coauthor of the
book Airborne Radar.
Summary
An indispensable resource for all those who design, build, manage, and operate electronic navigation systems
Avionics Navigation Systems, Second Edition, is a complete guide to the art and science of modern electronic
navigation, focusing on aircraft. It covers electronic navigation systems in civil and military aircraft, helicopters,
unmanned aerial vehicles, and manned spacecraft. It has been thoroughly updated and expanded to include all of
the major advances that have occurred since the publication of the classic first edition. It covers the entire
field from basic navigation principles, equations, and state-of-the-art hardware to emerging technologies. Each
chapter is devoted to a different system or technology and provides detailed information about its functions, design
characteristics, equipment configurations, performance limitations, and directions for the future. You'll find
everything you need to know about:
*Traditional ground-based radio navigation
*Satellite systems: GPS, GLONASS, and their augmentations
*New inertial systems, including optical rate sensors, micromechanical accelerometers, and high-accuracy stellar-inertial
navigators
*Instrument Landing System and its successors
*Integrated communication-navigation systems used on battlefields
*Airborne mapping, Doppler, and multimode radars
*Terrain matching
*Special needs of military aircraft
*And much more
Since the publication of Kayton and Fried's classic work, Avionics Navigation Systems, almost thirty years ago,
tremendous strides have been made in the science and practice of navigation: satellite systems, improved sensors,
new computer technology and software, interconnected avionics subsystems, and more. Completely updated to include
the latest advances in navigation theory, hardware, and software, this brand-new edition provides comprehensive,
unified coverage of the principles of modern navigation equipment and systems.
The initial chapters establish the conceptual and technical foundations of the subject, with a concise overview
of electronic navigation and a review of crucial principles and equations. Each of the ensuing chapters provides
in-depth treatment of a specific navigation technology, including ground-based radio-navigation aids; satellite-based
radio-navigation aids; integrated communication-navigation systems; inertial and stellar-inertial navigation systems;
air-data sensors and algorithms that derive airspeed, angles of attack and sideslip, and barometric altitude; attitude
and heading sensors and displays; Doppler radars, radar altimeters, and mapping radars; and terrain map-matching.
The book concludes with a description of land-based and aircraft-carrier-based landing aids, air-traffic management,
and avionic interfaces.
Retaining the user-friendly organization of the first edition, each chapter presents basic functions and principles,
and then discusses design characteristics and equipment configurations, performance limitations, and sources of
error. Each chapter concludes with a prediction of future trends. Comparative performance levels, weights, power
consumption, and costs are described where possible. A thorough index makes it easy to find material quickly.
Avionics Navigation Systems, Second Edition, is an indispensable resource for all engineers and systems analysts
who design, build, and maintain navigation and avionics equipment, as well as for the pilots and operations staff
who use it.
Table of Contents
The Navigation Equations (M. Kayton).
Multisensor Navigation Systems (J. Huddle & R. Brown).
Terrestrial Radio-Navigation Systems (B. Uttam, et al.).
Satellite Radio Navigation (A. Van Dierendonck).
Terrestrial Integrated Radio Communication-Navigation Systems (W. Fried, et al.).
Inertial Navigation (D. Tazartes, et al.).
Air-Data Systems (S. Osder).
Attitude and Heading References (M. Kayton & W. Wing).
Doppler and Altimeter Radars (W. Fried, et al.).
Mapping and Multimode Radars (J. Pearson, et al.).
Celestial Navigation (E. Knobbe & G. Haas).
Landing Systems (D. Vickers, et al.).
Air Traffic Management (C. Miller & J. Scardina).
Avionics Interfaces (C. Spitzer).
References.
Index.
