Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM
Monday, April 25, 2011 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium
Michael Aguilar & Mitchell Davis
Safety Week Colloquium: "The NASA Study into Unintended Acceleration of the Toyota Camry: Analysis of the Hardware and Software System"
ABSTRACT -- The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) was asked to support the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Study into Unintended Acceleration of the Toyota Camry. The report was released February, 2011.
This presentation will discuss the process, analysis, and lessons learned in the study of the Toyota Camry electronic throttle control system.
SPEAKER -- Michael Aguilar is located at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). He serves as the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) Discipline Expert in Software Engineering, and is the NASA Technical Fellow in Software.
Mr. Aguilar has a master’s degree in software engineering, specialized in real-time embedded systems, from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and a BS degree in computer science, specialized in robotics, from California State University at Northridge.
Mr. Aguilar has worked on software development for spacecraft command and control systems, flight simulators, submersible robotics, nuclear reactor monitoring and control systems, and safety-critical embedded software. Since joining NASA, he managed the flight software interfaces for the science instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project, which involved the interface and integration of the JWST core flight software development at GSFC and the science instrument flight software applications developed externally by the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency and EMS Technologies, the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin ATC, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/European Consortium. He was the NESC software lead for the study into the Toyota Camry acceleration.
SPEAKER -- Mitchell Davis began his career at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) as a Co-operative Education student in 1982. After graduating from U of Akron (1984) with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Mr. Davis returned to GSFC and was the led designer for the STS-based telescope Two Axis Pointing System which flew on STS-35 in December 1990. He was the promoted to the Electrical System Engineer for the Composite Infrared Spectrometer instrument for the Cassini spacecraft which launched in 1997 and the instrument is still operating today. In 2001, Mr. Davis was promoted to the Electrical System Branch’s chief engineer with responsibility for resolving Electro-Magnetic Compatibility designs and electrical system architectures. He either led or was a key team member on numerous anomaly investigation teams for the Hubble Space Telescope, ICESAT spacecraft, Spitzer Observatory and all three flagship Earth Observing System’s (EOS) spacecraft. In June 2003 the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) was created, Mr. Davis served as deputy to the Avionics lead. He supported numerous investigations on the Shuttle, Space station and the Constellation programs. In April 2007, Mr. Davis was promoted to NESC Technical Fellow for Avionics and he participated in numerous assessments for the Agency. In December 2010, Mr. Davis transitioned back to Goddard Space Flight center as the Chief Electrical System Engineer for the Electrical Engineering Division. Mr. Davis has received numerous Performance Awards, Special Act Awards Group Achievement Awards and received the NASA Medal for Exceptional Service in June 2003. He has authored/co-authored numerous technical publications.