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JACK KUIPERS

3085 Baker Park Drive SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49508-1474

EDUCATION

AB (Math/physics) Calvin College	1943
BS(EE) University of Michigan	1944
U.S. Army, Signal Corps Radar School:       Harvard University & MIT	1945
MSE(Aerospace), University of Michigan	1959
ICE (Information & Control Engrg) Univ. of Mich	1966
NSF Linear Algebra Conference, PhD-research-topics      at University of California, Santa Barbara , CA	1967-70

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

IEEE, Senior Member
MAA, Member
Sigma Xi, Member
American Men of Science, Listed
Who's Who in the Midwest, Listed
Who's Who in America, Listed
Who's Who in the World, Listed
Who's Who in Technology Today, Listed

COURSES TAUGHT

Control System Theory, Graduate Level
Advanced Mathematics for Physicists & Engineers
Numerical Analysis, Junior/Senior Level
Complex Analysis, Junior/Senior Level
Differential Equations, Sophomore/Junior Level
Calculus (Regular three semester sequence)
Calculus for Management, Biological & Social Sciences
Mathematics for Liberal Arts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1967---	Professor of Mathematics, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI (49506) Consultant in Mathematical Models for Aerospace Technology (see below)
1962-67	Research Engineer, University of Michigan, NASA Apollo Applications, Aerospace Engineering. Navigation & Institute of Science & Technology, Univ of Michigan.
1962-67	Lecturer, Horace B. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan.
1959-62	Senior Physicist, Cleveland Pneumatic Industries, Instrumentation & Control Division, Grand Rapids, MI
1954-59	Senior Project Engineer, Analytical Design, Lear Incorporated, Grand Rapids, MI
1953-54	Chief Engineer, Instrument Division, R.C. Allen Business Machines, Inc. Grand Rapids, Michigan
1950-53	Project Engineer, Flight Reference and Autopilot Systems, Lear Incorporated, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1946-50	Assistant to the Director of Research, Electric Sorting Machine Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan
1942-46	Military Service, 1st Lt., U.S. Army Signal Corps

CONSULTING ACTIVITY

R. C. Allen Business Machines, Inc.	1953,1968
Lear Incorporated	1958
Cleveland Pneumatic Industries	1962-66
Lear Jet	1963-66
Jet Electronics Technology	1966->
University of Michigan	1967
University of Cincinnati	1969
National Water Lift Co.	1972->
Nortronics, Division of Northrup	1966-71
Polhemus Navigation Sciences, Inc.	1965-80
The Austin Co.	1975-83
Advanced Technology Systems, Inc.	1975-81
McDonnell Douglas Corporation	1983->
Sperry Corporation	1986->
Gaertner Research, Inc.	1989->

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

• QUATERNION PROCESS FOR AN ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD DISTORTION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - presented at the CPEM-88 Conference on Precision Electro-magnetic Measurements, Tsukuba, Japan, June 7-10, 1988
• QUATERNION TRANSFORMATION PROCESSING IN A VIRTUAL PANORAMIC DISPLAY SYSTEM - presented a five-day tutorial at Sperry Corporation, Aerospace & Marine Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 29 Sept - 03 Oct 1986
• COMPUTER GRAPHICS - SURFACES IN R3 - presented at Oakland Community College, Michigan Section, American Mathematical Association Meeting, 6 May 1983
• QUATERNIONS - A Mathematics Colloquium presented at Calvin College, February, 1983
• QUATERNIONS - Lecture series for staff at Advanced Technology Systems, Inc., Fair Lawn, New Jersey, August through November, 1982
• ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS - A MATHEMATICAL MODEL - presented at the CPEM-80 meeting in Braunsweig, Germany, June,1980
• A NAVIGATION & GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, presented at OTC meeting in Houston, Texas, May 1978
• TWOWAY - A POSITION & ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - presented at OTC - 77 (IEEE/MTS) in Los Angeles, California, Oct. 1977
• AEROSPACE APPLICATION - A MATHEMATICAL MODEL - presented at a Mathematics Colloquium, Calvin College, September, 1977
• FIVE DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM ELECTROMAGNETIC POSITION AND ORIENTATION REMOTE SENSING - presented at Ferranti Ltd., and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov18-21, 1974
• FIVE DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM REMOTE SENSING - a Graduate Seminar presentation for the Aerospace Engineering School, University of Michigan, Oct 1974
• MIGRATIONS IN THE COMPLEX PLANE - presented as a Mathematics Colloquium, Calvin College, April, 1974
• SPASYN - A NEW TRANSDUCING TECHNIQUE FOR VISUALLY-COUPLED CONTROL SYSTEMS - presented at USAF Symposium for VCCS, Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Brooks AFB, Nov. 1972
• PRINCIPLES OF NAVIGATION (OPTIMAL FILTERING) - Lecturer in summer "short course" at University of Michigan, Institute of Science and Technology, Summer, 1964
• OPTICAL CONTROL SYSTEM - APOLLO SPACE CRAFT (APPLICATION A) - presented at NASA High-Altitude Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, May 1965
• ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR XB-70 - presented at B. F. Goodrich, Troy OH, Cleveland Pneumatic Industries, Cleveland, Ohio, and Air Systems Command, WPAFB, Dayton OH, in Cleveland Ohio, Oct 16, 1961

PUBLICATIONS

• QUATERNIONS and ROTATION SEQUENCES, A Primer with Applications to Orbits,Aerospace, & Virtual Reality, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-05872-5, expected December 1998
• CHARACTERIZATION & APPLICATION OF QUATERNIONS FOR ENHANCED COMPUTER PROCESSING ALGORITHMS, SBIR II FINAL REPORT (U), AL/CF-SR-1994-0014, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, July 1994
• QUATERNION TRANSFORMATION PROCESSING - VIRTUAL PANORAMIC DISPLAY (VPD) PROGRAMMABLE DISPLAY GENERATION SYSTEM sponsored and supported by WPAFB [F33615-82-C-0513] under subcontract 1054-26 from MacAulay-Brown, Inc., Dayton, OH, Oct 1986
• SPASYN - AN ELECTROMAGNETIC RELATIVE POSITION AND ORIENTATION TRACKING SYSTEM, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. IM-29, No. 4, Dec,1980.
• ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS - A MATHEMATICAL MODEL, Proceedings of CPEM - 80/IEEE meeting in Braunsweig, Germany, June, 1980, Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Field Measurement.
• A NAVIGATION & GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, Proceedings (10th Annual) of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, TX, May, 1978.
• TWOWAY - A POSITION & ORIENATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, OCEAN, '77 Conference Record, Vol 2, Proc IEEE/MTS 38E pp.1-13, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 1977.
• A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF END-TO-END DISTANCES IN POLYMER MOLECULES, Journal for Polymer Chemistry, Vol 53, No. 6, June, 1976, with Van Doorne,W. and Hoekstra,J.
• AN ELECTROMAGNETIC POSITION SENSOR, Polhemus Navigation Sciences, Inc., Burlington, VT, Tech. Rep. AFAL-TR-73-281, Nov. 30, 1973, with A.R DeRuyck
• SPASYN - A NEW TRANSDUCING TECHNIQUE FOR VISUALLY-COUPLED CONTROL SYSTEMS, Proc. of Symposium on Visually Coupled Systems, pg. 398f, Brooks AFB TX, Nov. 1972, AMRL/WPAFB Report No. AMD TR-73-1, Sept. 1972.
• SOLUTION & SIMULATION OF CERTAIN KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS PROBLEMS USING RESOLVERS, Proc. 5th Congress of the Internation Association for Analog Computation, Lausanne, Switzerland, August, 1967; published by "Presses Academiques, Europeennes", Brussels.
• RESEARCH ON GUIDANCE DESIGN ANALYSIS FOR MILITARY SPACE OPERATIONS, AL-TDR-64-218 WPAFB, Airforce Avionics Laboratory, June, 1964, with Bradley, H. E., Casserly, G., Fadden, E. J., Gordon, D. G., Kazda, L. F., Nicholls, R. E., Porter, Wm. A., Sargent, R. G., Spooner, Ron, Varblow, C.,

TECHNICAL REPORTS

• COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION SENSOR (SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM), June, 1971, Original disclosure paper (unpublished).
• AEROSPACE NAVIGATION SYSTEM SENSITIVITIES, University of Michigan, Institute of Science & Technology, Navigation and Guidance Laboratory, Report No. 4565-27-NG, October, 1962.
• DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF RAY POINTING SATELLITE, University of Michigan, Institute of Science and technology, Navigation Laboratory, Report No. 4563-4/21-P (classified), Sept. 1962, with Porter, Wm. A., Varblow, C., Conlon, H.,
• ANTENNA POINTING, University of Michigan, Institute of Science & Technology, Navigation & Guidance Laboratory, Rept No. 4565-19-NG, August 1962.
• NAVIGATION, ORIENTATION, AND STABILIZATION OF AN AEROSPACE VEHICLE, Institute of Science & Technology, Navigation and Guidance Laboratory, University of Michigan, Report No. 4565-10-NG, June, 1962.
• ORBITING AEROSPACE VEHICLE COORDINATE RELATIONSHIPS, University of Michigan, Institute of Science & Technology, Report No. 4565-4-NG, May 1962, Classified.
• INTERCARDINAL ERRORS IN TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM IN INERTIAL REFERENCES AND METHODS FOR COMPENSATION, Engineering Report No. 39, Lear, Inc., February, 1958.
• CORIOLIS ACCELERATION COMPENSATION FOR AN INERTIAL GUIDANCE REFERENCE, IMR-99, Lear Inc., Feb. 1958, published as part of a Bell Labs Report (Secret).
• INERTIAL REFERENCE CONFIGURATIONS FOR ALL-ATTITUDE AIRCRAFT CONTROL, Engineering Mem. Report 20, Sept1957, Lear, Inc.
• DESIGN LIMITS FOR SWITCHING RATE GYROSCOPES, LEAR, INC., Aerophysics Memorandum Rept 14, July 1957, Lear, Inc.
• HEADING GYRO INTERCARDINAL TILT ERROR ANALYSIS, Lear Inc., Aerophysics Memorandum Report 22, Sept. 1956.

PATENTS

• United States Patent No. 2,829,521 dated 8 April, 1958, GYROSCOPIC STRUCTURE.
• United States Patent No. 2,851,886 dated 16 Sept., 1958, DAMPING MEANS FOR A RATE GYROSCOPE.
• United States Patent No. 3,474,241, dated October, 1969, COORDINATE TRANSFORMER.
• United States Patent No. 3,660,648, dated 2 May, 1972, ANGULAR RATE COORDINATE
• United States Patent No. 3,868,565, dated 25 Feb. 1975, OBJECT TRACKING & ORIENTATION DETERMINATION MEANS, SYSTEM, AND PROCESS.
• United States Patent No. 3,983,474, dated 26 Sept. 1976, TRACKING AND DETERMINING ORIENTATION OF OBJECT USING COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION MEANS, SYSTEM, AND PROCESS.
• United States Patent No. 4,107,858 dated 12 April, 1977, APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A NUTATING ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FIELD.
• United States Patent No. 4,742,356 dated 03 May 1988, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING REMOTE OBJECT ORIENTATION AND POSITION.
• OTHERS PENDING.

FOREIGN PATENTS

• Canada, Patent No. 1054241 8 May, 1979.
• France, Patent No. 7426325 29 July, 1974.
• Germany, Patent No. 2436641
• Great Britain, Patent No. 1465134 29 July, 1974.
• Iran, Patent No. 14888 17 March, 1976.
• Israel, Patent No. 45177 3 July, 1974
• Italy, Patent No. 1017347 22 July, 1974.
• Japan, S/N 86831/74 29 July, 1974.<
• Sweden, Patent No. 7409509-2 22 July, 1974.
• OTHERS PENDING.

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