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Business development: Part 2 |
Our aim is to develop and maintain a top tier, highly professional, Unmanned Aircraft Systems design, development and test capability. We will do this through a focus on:
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innovative research and development
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design of very reliable systems
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high quality engineering
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the building of long term relationships with top ranking companies, organisations and Universities.
Our aim is to operate in the civilian, the security and the defence sectors. Our activities cover Unmanned Aircraft Systems design for use in oil, gas and mineral exploration, pipeline and installation monitoring and in the detection of threats to military personnel.
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Meeting with Paul Kimber of Selex S+AS |
Paul Kimber of Selex S+AS (left) and Dr Joe Barnard of Barnard Microsystems Limited (right) discuss issues of interest in general to the SEAS Defence Technology Centre, and where BML could make a contribution, at a meeting at BML offices in North London on Wednesday 26th March 2008.
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Break during EuroCAE Working Group 73 Sub-Group 3 meeting in Prague |
Afternoon break during a two day EuroCAE meeting on Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th November, 2007 at the very smart Honeywell facilities in Prague. Dewar Donnithorne-Tait (UAVSI) explaining the subtleties of a UAV test flight to Christian Pelmoine (EUROCONTROL) with Dr Uwe Hingst (Diehl-BGT-Defence) immediatley behind them. Also standing, from left to right, are Ondrej Koukol (Honeywell, Czech Republic), Axel Klaeyle (Thales) and Eric Allaix (DGAC DSNA). Sub Group 3 is generating a set of recommendations for the Command and Control of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
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Inaugural meeting of the AUVSI London Chapter |
The inaugural meeting of the AUVSI London Chapter on the evening of Tuesday 20th November at the Micromill Waterlooville site. Present were, from left to right: Dewar Donnithorne-Tait, Tim Young, Richard Searle, Joe Barnard, Sandy Allsop and John Hartas.
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Meeting in Rome of EuroCAE Working Group 73 on Unmanned Aircraft Systems |
Meeting of the EuroCAE Working Group 73 Small Unmanned Aircraft Focus Group members at the Avionica Galileo facility just outside Rome from Monday 29th October to Tuesday 30th October. The Plenary meeting took place on Wednesday 31st October. This Subgroup is developing recommendations for harmonised (initially within Europe, later on, global) definitions, air worthiness standards, operations procedures and command and control protocols for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Present were, standing, from left to right: Michel Roelandt (EUROCONTROL), Graham Lynn (Europe Air Sports), Michael Poole (UK CAA), Christer Wikstrom (Swedish CAA), Peter van Blyenburgh (UVS International), Ulf Johansson (Swedish CAA), Gerhard Lippitsch (AUSTRO CONTROL), Bernhard von Bottmer (UAV DACH), and seated, from left to right were: Joseph Barnard (Barnard Microsystems Limited), Doug Davis (USA FAA), Richard Hermans (CAA Netherlands) and Andrej Koukol (Honeywell, Czech Republic). The definition of a "small" Unmanned Aircraft is one with a take-off weight of less than 150 kg.
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Third meeting at MBDA, second time in Stevenage |
Photograph kindly supplied by Mohan Ahad of MBDA (front row, fourth from left, holding folder).
On 23rd October, some members of four Teams (for some reason Raglan Tribe appears not to be in this photograph) participating in the MoD Grand Challenge met at the MBDA Stevenage Site to work on the definition of the interfaces to the MBDA NEMESIS software, and on the definition of the flight plan syntax. The development of the NEMESIS software is progressing to schedule.
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Meeting Dr Rashid Ali at the University of Hertfordshire |
On Monday 22nd October I visited Dr Rashid Ali, Senior Lecturer in the School of Aerospace, Automotive and Design Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire, to discuss the design of Flight Control Units and see the impressive facilities at the University. Rashid and his students have the ability to design both the Unmanned Aircraft airframe and the guidance and control electronics, and can make the airframe on site.
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Meeting with James Habershon and James Hickey of MBDA |
Joe Barnard (centre) of BML meets James Hickey (left) and James Habershon (right) at the very impressive MBDA facilities in Stevenage on Tuesday 2nd October, 2007, to discuss the user requirements and interface details in respect of the MBDA NEMESIS software. The NEMESIS software will be used by several MoD Grand Challenge Teams, including the Barnard Microsystems Team, in conjunction with staff from MBDA, to plan missions and analyse visual, infra-red and thermal imagery from the missions.
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Meeting with members of Middlesex University I-SPY Team |
On Thursday 27th September, members of the Middlesex University I-SPY Team and Joe Barnard, leader of the Barnard Microsystems Team, met at Middlesex University Trent Campus to discuss aspects of multi-rotor hover vehicle technology. In the above photograph, courtesy of Mehmet Erbil, are from left to right: Mehmet Erbil (I-Spy), Tom Foran (I-Spy), Sid Odedra (I-Spy), Dr Joe Barnard (BM) and Dr Stephen Prior (I-Spy). The quadrotor shown above was simply used to illustrate some points in the discussion, and does not represent the actual technology either Team is pursuing.
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