| What we do | - What We Do |
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Above: InView climb out from a field in the U.K. Contents
Corporate brochure
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| Overview |
The InView being prepared for a late afternoon flight in Winter. The InView has been developed for use in scientific, commercial and state applications. Key attributes of this versatile aircraft are safety, automation and modularity.
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We develop Unmanned Aircraft for use in scietific, commercial and state applications.
- We design miniature, high performance, microwave and optoelectronic circuits:
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high performance fibre optic sensor circuits
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collision detection sensors for use on Unmanned Aircraft;
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low power FMCW RADAR altimeters, wireless communication links and Inertial Measurement Units.
- We develop technical and scientific software:
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to process, interpret and act on data from instruments on an Unmanned Aircraft;
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to process and interpret images from digital cameras on an Unmanned Aircraft.
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We provide a consultancy service in the design of high performance, low signal level and high frequency, electronic and optoelectronic circuits.
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We provide independent, professional and well informed consultancy service in the area of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
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We are especially interested in the scientific, commercial and state applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, and the real benefits these systems can provide to society.
| Development of navigation, communication and flight control systems for Unmanned Aircraft |
We design, develop and test high performance navigation, communication and flight control systems, based on years of experience in the design of optoelectronic transceivers operating from 155 MBit per second right up to 11.3 GBit per second. We are active in the development and refinement of:
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Inertial Measurement Units (IMU)
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Flight Control Units
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Wireless Communications Links
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Air speed indicator units for use on Unmanned Aircraft
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Ultrasonic altimeter, for use in automated take-off and landing
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Precision FMCW microwave altimeters
We attend the major international technical conferences to ensure that we are up to date with the latest technical advances and regulatory developments.
| Development of precision sensors |
The latest additions to our microwave and optoelectronic test equipment: the HP 54825A oscilloscope with a bandwidth of 500 MHz and a sampling rate of 2 GSample/s, on top of an Agilent 4285A Precision LCR meter.
Examples of sensor circuits we have developed
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buried metal detection sensor
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high performance Transimpedance Amplifier (TIA) circuit for use with a sensitive photodiode to form the sensitive front-end of a fast optical signal detector
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synthetic aperture RF imaging system
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synthetic aperture microwave imaging system
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stereo imaging system for use in the 3D representation of a scene
| Development of microwave and optoelectronic circuits |
We develop:
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high performance fibre optic sensors, for example, for use in oil, gas and mineral exploration and production activities
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microwave and RF imaging systems, for example, for sub-surface imaging
Our expertise is in the design of high performance, rather than low cost, microwave and optoelectronic circuits operating from d.c. to 12 GHz. Our design software development background, coupled with a range of professional microwave instruments capable of making measurements up to 26.5 GHz, has provided us with the ability to design and develop communication, navigation and sensor circuits and systems.
| Development of novel Unmanned Aircraft and Unmanned Helicopters |
Above: a hybrid electric and fuel powered IC unmanned helicopter developed by BML
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We design, build and test small Unmanned Aircraft and Unmanned Helicopters
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We work with other companies to provide a complete Unmanned Aircraft Systems technology capability
| The WaveMaker microwave circuit layout software |
WaveMaker Layout is used in the layout of microwave Printed Circuit Boards and small integrated circuits. This software is also used in the design of semiconductor devices and other small devices that are made using precision lithography in which the GDS II Stream graphics data format is used.