UAV Electronics Expert Specializing in RF Links and Power Supplies
Technical Consultant #1801
Expertise
- Electronic hardware design
- Electromagnetic interference issues
- Power supplies
- Embedded systems
- Analog design
- Conventional gyro systems
- Data communications links (RF)
- Dedicated audio links (RF)
- Digital design
- Embedded control systems
- GPS systems
- Industrial control systems
- Inertial measurement units
- Joystick design (aircraft and games)
- Magnetometer / compass systems
- MEMS technology - gyros, accelerometers, pressure
- Receiver Design (RF Data)
- Testifying and ITC experience
- Transducer interface
- Transmitter design
- Video links (RF)
Expert Witness
- Intellectual property disputes
- Litigation support - International Trade Commission (ITC)
Cases
- Expert engagement: International Trade Commission Action.
- Acted as a Consulting Expert Witness in a patent validity case involving power supplies.
- Acted as a Testifying Expert Witness in a patent validity case involving marine autopilots.
Experience
Undisclosed Company, President, 1996 - Present
- Designer of electronic controls for the Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) market, including inertial measurement, autopilots, electrical power controls, RF systems and video technology.
- Specific focus on technologies applicable to the civilian market, with some UAVs in military applications.
- Expert testimony supported by an extensive and wide scientific background supplying the legal and intellectual property industries and in other various technologies.
Additional Technologies
- Altium Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Camera platforms
- Controlled impedance circuit board design
- Embedded control systems
- Flight termination systems (encrypted digital RF)
- Garage door openers
- Heliostats
- Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
- Integrated gyro systems
- Interference removal and debugging
- Magnetometers (earth field sensing)
- MEMS transducers
- Radio control systems
- Receiver design (HF thru UHF)
- RF layout design
- Shock and vibration testing
- Spectrum analyzers (testing)
- SPICE based circuit simulation
- Stabilized microwave antennas
- Temperature control systems
- Video transmitter design
Power Supplies
- Battery supervisors
- Boost mode power supplies
- Buck mode power supplies
- Buck/boost mode power supplies
- High current power supplies
- High power oscillators
- High precision power supplies
- High voltage power supplies (greater than 10kV)
- Light weight power supplies
- Linear power supplies
- Motor drive system
- Offline power supplies
- Switched mode power supplies
- Ultra low voltage input power supplies (0.1 Volt)
Aircraft
- Altitude / attitude control
- Autopilots
- Blimps (70 feet, semi - autonomous)
- Directional stabilization systems
- Extreme altitude (100,000 feet)
- GPS navigation systems
- Microwave links (control and telemetry)
- Solar powered aircraft
- UAV control systems
- Unmanned air vehicles - 6 Inch to 270 feet wingspan
Cambridge Electronic Design, Inc., San Pedro, CA, Chief Executive Officer, 1984 - 1996
- Electronic hardware consulting for the following areas;
- Automatic braking and throttle systems
- Autonomous vehicle control systems
- Ceramic capacitors - extreme stress testing and ceramic disc pumps (hydraulics)
- Control algorithms for levitation systems (and magnetic)
- E beam systems - field Emission, LaB6, tungsten
- Electron beam microfabrication systems
- Field emission systems
- Force and gyro operated joysticks,(for use In the air)
- Heater control systems
- High voltage DC systems
- Human factors engineering
- Magnetic deflection systems - coils and amplifiers
- Metal detectors
- Near space control systems
- Non-contact inductive distance sensors
- Overhead magnetic levitation
- Pneumatic control systems
- Power electronics - harmonic reduction system
- Pulsed field emission systems
- Rocket payloads
- Sub orbital control systems
- Sudden acceleration investigations
- Vacuum systems - diffusion, ion, and sorption pumped
- Very low frequency (VLF) RF techniques
Unified Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, Senior Systems Design Engineer, 1982 - 1984
- Designer of video game software and CRT display systems. Other focus areas;
- Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) displays and power supplies
- Combined raster / vector scan systems
- High resolution CRTs
- High voltage, high frequency power supplies
- Laser interferometer controls
- Magnetic deflection amplifiers for CRTs
- Precision XY stage control system
- Raster scan systems
- Vector scan systems
- Video gaming software - assembly language
Hughes Aircraft Co., Los Angeles, CA, Member of Technical Staff, 1979 - 1982
- Commissioned for the electron beam microfabrication system.
- Active filter design
- E-beam Imaging systems
- Electron beam deflection system
- Electron lenses
- High frequency FETs
- High resolution deflection systems
- Microfabrication techniques
- Passive filter design
- Scintillation detectors
- Semiconductor fabrication
- Vacuum system controls
Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Cambridge, UK, 1979 - 1979
- Postgraduate Research Student: Revolutionary New E-beam Imaging System.
Honors & Publications
Academic and Professional Affiliations
- Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publications and Patents
- Author and Co-Author of 5 publications in collegiate newsletters, journals, and technical magazines.
- 1 Patent
Education
- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Cambridge University, U.K.
- M.A. Electrical Engineering, Cambridge University, U.K.
- B.A. Electrical Engineering, Cambridge University, U.K