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Cannon, Robert Hamilton was born on October 6, 1923 in Cleveland. Son of Robert Hamilton and Catharine (Putnam) Cannon.
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A comprehensive text and reference for a first study of system dynamics and control, this volume emphasizes engineering concepts — modeling, dynamics feedback, and stability, for example — rather than mechanistic analysis procedures designed to yield routine answers to programmable problems. Its focus on physical modeling cultivates an appreciation for the breadth of dynamic systems without resorting to analogous electric-circuit formulation and analysis. After a careful treatment of the modeling of physical systems in several media and the derivation of the differential equations of motion, the text determines the physical behavior those equations connote: the free and forced motions of elementary systems and compound "systems of systems." Dynamic stability and natural behavior receive comprehensive linear treatment, and concluding chapters examine response to continuing and abrupt forcing inputs and present a fundamental treatment of analysis and synthesis of feedback control systems. This text's breadth is further realized through a series of examples and problems that develop physical insight in the best traditions of modern engineering and lead students into richer technical ground. As presented in this book, the concept of dynamics forms the basis for understanding not only physical devices, but also systems in such fields as management and transportation. Indeed, the fundamentals developed here constitute the common language of engineering, making this text applicable to a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. 334 figures. 12 tables.
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aerospace engineering educator
Cannon, Robert Hamilton was born on October 6, 1923 in Cleveland. Son of Robert Hamilton and Catharine (Putnam) Cannon.
Bachelor of Science, University Rochester, 1944; Doctor of Science (du Pont fellow), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950.
Research engineer, Baker Manufacturing Company, Evansville, Wisconsin, 1946-1950;
instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949-1950;
research engineer, Bendix Aviation Research laboratories, Detroit, 1950-1951;
with, Autonetics division North America Aviation Inc., Downey, California, 1951-1957;
supervisor automatic flight control systems, 1951-1954;
systems engineer inertial navigation instruments and systems, 1954-1957;
associate professor mechanic engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957-1959;
member of faculty, Stanford University, 1959-1974;
professor aerospace and astronautics, Stanford University, 1962-1974;
director Guidance and Control Laboratory, Stanford University, 1960-1969;
chief scientist, United States Air Force, 1966-1968;
assistant secretary unites states department Transportation, Washington, 1970-1974;
chairman division engineering and applied science, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, 1974-1979;
Charles Lee Powell professor aeronautics and astronautics, Stanford University, since 1979;
department chairman, Stanford University, 1979-1990;
director aerospace robotics laboratory, Stanford University, since 1980;
chairman science advising committee to director aerospace robotics emeritus, General Motors Corporation, 1979-1984. Board directors Key Tronic Corp. Member Draper Corporation, since 1975.
Board directors ParkinHannifin Corporation. Vice chairman science advisory board United States Air Force, 1968-1970. Chairman assembly of engineering National Research Council, 1974-1975, chairman energy engineering board, 1975-1981, mem.aeros. and space engineering board, 1975-1979, 85-92, ocean studies board, since 1991, member governing board, 1976-1978.
Member Boeing Corporation Technology Advisory Council, since 1984, R.R. Donnelley Technology Advisory Council, 1984-1989, Comsat Technology Adv.Com., 1985-1987. Chairman General Electric Space Station Advisory Board, 1985-1987. Chairman President's Committee on National Medal of Science, 1984-1988.
Chairman National Aeronautics and Space Administration Flight Telerobotic Servicer Commission, 1987-1991. Member technical advisory county United Technologies Corporation, 1989-1992. Commission underwater vehicles Marine Board.
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Served to Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (director 1968-1970), American Academy Arts and Sciences, International Academy.Astronautics. Member National Academy Engineering (councillor 1975-1981), Sigma Xi, Theta Chi (chapter president 1943-1944), Tau Beta Pi.
Married Dorothea Alta Collins, January 4, 1945 (deceased April 1988). Children: Philip Gregory, Douglas Charles, Beverly Jo, Frederick Scott. David John, Joseph Collins, James Robert.
Married Vera Berlin Crie, May 27, 1989.