Citation | Robinson's contribution to electronic engineering lies in the field of broad-band microwave circuits, techniques and systems. He has been responsible for a number of important innovations related to electronic counter-measures incorporated in the defence systems of the U.S.A., France and Italy as well as those of the United Kingdom. He was awarded the O.B.E. for his work by the Royal Navy. Of particular merit has been his invention of instantaneous frequency measuring techniques. His octave-bandwith microwave hybrid junction has found application in the design of mixers, single side-band modulators and phase discriminators required for such applications as multi-frequency radars, electronic scanning aerials and instantaneous frequency measuring receivers. His inventive techniques and their applications have included digital phase measuring techniques leading to improvements of several orders in the performance of frequency discriminators and have been incorporated in a micro-wave digital guidance system (MADGE) which is the first integrated surveillance/navigation/communication system for aircraft, now being assessed by world authorities. For this work Robinson was the recipient of the Royal Society S. G. Brown award. |