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Current job: Employment Term: Relocation: Date available: Industry: KeywordsCV
Personal Objectives Simulation, Space Technology, Navigation, Orbits, GPS, Galileo, INS
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Personal Data
Born 31/07/1973 - Ribeirao Preto/SP - Brazil
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Professional experience
Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S/A – EMBRAER (11 and ½ years)
1997 - 2001 System integration Engineer
Highlights:
· Avionic Integration rig for AMX Fighter – Avionic Testing.
o Software Design Plan using DOD-STD-2167A
o Multi-process C/C++ Programming (30.000 lines)
· International Space Station Software development
o Software Design Plan using DOD-STD-2167A
· Simulation of SPDA-FADEC for the Emb170 Jet in National Instruments LabView
2001 - ... Flight Test Engineer
Highlights:
· Production Flight of ERJ145 Regional Jet, Supertucano Fighter (Colombia, Brazil and USA).
· Avionic, OFP and Navigation Flight Testing of the Supertucano Fighter
· SIVAM AEW Radar Testing chasing
· Radar Flight Testing of the AMX Fighter
· Flight Testing of the new AMX VOR-Autopilot
· Flying Qualities of new AMX aerodynamic fairing
· Focal point for Flight Testing of the AMX avionic modernization (A1M Program)
· Technical consulting on evaluating suppliers of Embeeded GPS/INS systems for military programs
· Flight Experience:
o ERJ145 – 15 Flights (30 Hours)
o Supertucano ALX-Brazil - 22 Flights (40 Hours)
o Supertucano Colombia - 13 Flights (20 Hours)
o Supertucano EP (USA) - 2 Flights (3 Hours)
o UH1H Helicopter – 3 Flights (2 Hours)
o Hawk-Hunter – 1 Flight (1 Hour)
o AMX – 19 Telemetries (30 Hours)
o ERJ145 SIVAM-AEW – 1 Flight
o F5-BR – 4 Telemetries (8 Hours)
Centro de Divulgação da Astronomia - CDA-CDCC-USP (4 years)
1992 - 1996 Astronomy Teaching and training to the open public and schools
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Education
2003 - ... Phd Candidate in Autonomous Aerospace Navigation – GPS, Inertial Systems and Kalman Filtering
Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, ZARM-UNI-BREMEN, Germany
Title: Algorithms for Coupled Navigation Using an Inertial Measurement Algorithms for Coupled Navigation Using an Inertial Measurement Unit and the Global Positioning System
Prof.Dr. H.Rath-ZARM, Dr. S. Theil-ZARM, Dr. H.K. Kuga-INPE
Highlights:
§ Design, Construction and Implementation of an Embeeded GPS/IMU System Hardware/Software using RTAI, C and LINUX for real time system - GPS Embeeded Navigation Estimation Supported by Inertial System (GENESIS).
Real Time Interface for Cross Bow IMU400CD-200 using RTAI (10.000 lines)
Real Time Interface for GPS Creations GPS1005-PCI using RTAI (15.000 lines)
§ Programming:
· Extended Kalman Filtering Tutorial,
· IPC Semaphores and Conditional variables,
· Linked lists, Client/Server – Net, Shared memory
§ Modeling ad Simulation of an virtual and generic IMU in Simulink
§ Modelig and Simulation of virtual GPS costellation in Simulink
§ Modelig and Simulation of a virtual GPS Receiver in Simulink
1997 - 2000 Master in Aerospace Technology Engineering.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil
(Brasilian Space Research Institute)
Title: Survey on Star identification techniques and development of a dedicated test bench for aerospace applications
Dr. Roberto Vieira da Fonseca Lopes - INPE
Highlights:
§ Modeling and Simulation of a virtual Star Sensor and virtual test environment for star identification techniques for spacecraft attitude control in Matlab
1992 - 1996 Graduation in Mechanical/Aeronautical Engeneering.
EESC-USP-Sao Carlos-SP, EESC, Brazil
1995 - 1996 Graduation specialization
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil
(Brasilian Space Research Institute)
Title: Star identification by star sensors
Dr. Roberto Vieira da Fonseca Lopes - INPE
1996 - 1996 Graduation specialization
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil
(Brasilian Space Research Institute)
Title: Autonomous Star identification
Dr. Roberto Vieira da Fonseca Lopes – INPE
1988 - 1990 Fundamental Formation – 2nd degree
EESG Otoniel Mota, EESG, Brazil
1979 - 1987 Fundamental Formation – 1st degree
EEPG Alcides Correa/SP, EEPG, Brazil
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Additional Education
2008 - 2008 Fixed Wing Performance Flight Testing. Professional Course.
NationalTestPilotSchool (NTPS), Mojave-California, USA
2008 - 2008 Fixed Wing Flying Qualities Testing. Professional Course.
NationalTestPilotSchool (NTPS), Mojave-California, USA
2005 - 2005 Writing Message-Passing Parallel Programs with MPI.
Zuse Institute Berlin, ZIB, Germany
2001 - 2002 Airplane Private Pilot.
TAS - Escola de Aviação, TAS, Brazil
1999 - 1999 Human Interface Modeling
Universidade de São Paulo, USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
1998 - 1998 "Mathlink in Mathematica”.
Wolfgang Research, WR, USA,
1998 - 1998 “Programming in Mathematica”.
Wolfgang Research, WR, USA,
1998 - 1998 Human interface Programming – XWindow/M.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil,
1998 - 1998 AEW (Airborne Early Warning) and Command & Control.
Drundridge College, DC, UK,
1997 - 1997 C Programming
Global Knowledge Network (Digital), GKN, Brazil,
1997 - 1997 C++ Programming
Global Knowledge Network (Digital), GKN, Brazil,
1997 - 1997 Ground School of ERJ-145 aircraft
Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S/A, EMBRAER, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil,
1992 - 1992 Short Course on Astrophysics
Centro de Divulgação da Astronomia, CDA-CDCC-USP, Brazil
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Languages
Portuguese Mother Language
German Advanced – DSH Certified, (4 months Intensive Course at Goethe in Göttingen)
English Advanced
Italian Basic
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Publications
Papers
1. Baldo Carvalho, G., LOPES, R. V. F., SILVA, A. R. Star Identification for three-axis attitude estimation of French-Brazilian scientific micro-sattelite” (Identificação de estrelas para estimação de atitude em três eixos do micro satélite científico Franco-Brasileiro). AIAA Congress. , 1997.
2. Baldo Carvalho, G., THEIL, S., KUGA, H. K. Standard Ionspheric and Tropospheric Models for GPS on Aerospace Applications: Geometrical Extension. Journal of Navigation. , 2007 (Under process of publication)
3. Baldo Carvalho, G., THEIL, S., KUGA, H. K. Autonomous Aerospace Navigation System with integrated Global Positioning System and Inertial In: V Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia Inercial, 2007, Rio de Janeiro.
4. Baldo Carvalho, G., THEIL, S., KUGA, H. K. Standard Ionspheric and Tropospheric Models for GPS on Aerospace Applications: Geometrical Extension In: IAC, 2006, Valencia-Spain.
5. Baldo Carvalho, G., THEIL, S., KUGA, H. K. INTEGRATION MODEL COMPARISON FOR COUPLED NAVIGATION USING AN IMU In: IV Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia Inercial, 2004, São José dos Campos.
Book Chapter
1. Baldo Carvalho, G., LOPES, R. V. F., Simulation and Test Environment For Star Identification Techniques on Space Applications. In: Advances in Space Dynamics 3 - Applications in Astronautics..1 ed.São José dos Campos : INPE, 2002, p. 100-111.
Technical Reports
1. Talib, Omar Q., Baldo Carvalho, G., Henawy, Mahmoud Al, GENESIS Electrical/Mechanical System Integration/Assembly Design, ZARM
2. Baldo Carvalho, G., GPS-IMU-EKF Integration Models Comparison, ZARM
3. Baldo Carvalho, G., Practical Approaches to the Inertial Measurement Unity, ZARM
4. Baldo Carvalho, G., GPS-IMU-EKF Navigation, 2004
5. Baldo Carvalho, G., Linear/Extended Continuous-Discrete Kalman filter model application example, 2004
6. Baldo Carvalho, G., Linear/Extended Continuous-Discrete Kalman filter tutorial, 2004
7. Baldo Carvalho, G., Practical Approaches for the Extended Kalman Filter, 2004
8. Baldo Carvalho, G., Practical Approaches to the Global Positioning System, 2004
9. Baldo Carvalho, G., Reference Frame definitions, 2004
11. Baldo Carvalho, G., LOPES, R. V. F., Identificação Autônoma de Estrelas, 1996
12. Baldo Carvalho, G., LOPES, R. V. F., Identificação de estrelas observadas por sensores estelares, 1996
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Support to Students
1. Per Gustavsson. Development of a Matlab-based GPS-constellation simulation for navigation algorithm developments. 2005. Master of Science in Space Engineering - LuleåUniversity of Technology
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Participation in Events and Congress
1. VIII Colóquio Brasileiro de Dinâmica Orbital, Santos – Brazil, 1996.
2. 51.o IAC -International Astronautical Congress, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil, 2000. .
3. X Colóquio brasileiro de Dinâmica Orbital, São Paulo – Brazil, 2000.
4. 54.o IAC -International Astronautical Congress, Bremen – Germany, 2003..
5. IV Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia Inercial, São José dos Campos – Brazil, 2004
6. International Post-Graduate Masters Course in Space Exploration and Development Systems (SEEDS), Nordweig – Netherlands, 2005. .
7. 57.o IAC -International Astronautical Congress, Valencia – Spain, 2006.
8. V Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia Inercial, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, 2007.
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