Petscope : a standardized system for ballistic missile guidance data analysis

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McNurlen, Austin Casey
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Standardized system for ballistic missile guidance data analysis
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Ray Magee and Barbara Liskov.
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Abstract
This thesis had the goals of standardizing and automating guidance data analysis at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper). This was accomplished via, the first ever machine understandable knowledge of Portable Engineering Testing Stations (PETS) variables located in a comprehensive MySQL database. Automation was achieved via a MATLAB program designed to be flexible for a wide variety of inputs and outputs. The standardization required time-consuming interface analysis and a tedious programming effort, but has proved to be successful and is already streamlining the data collection and analysis process for another program at Draper.
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Thesis (M. Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.
 
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Date issued
2004
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33147
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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