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Our Mission

At MLB Company, our mission is to provide our customers with the most cost effective solutions to accessing aerial information. We specialize in the research and development, manufacturing and training of complete Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and aerial imaging serices utilizing our UAS products. Our products include the low cost and portable Bat-3 UAV equipped with a gimbal camera which allows for live video streaming, and the innovative vertical-take-off-and-land (VOTL) V-Bat that combines the ability to hover with the efficiency of high speed horizontal flight.

MLB Company is also highly involved in research consultating that continuously brings innovation to aircraft design and aerial image processing. Here at MLB Company, we look forward to future partnerships with you in your aerial ventures.

Organic Air Vechicle

Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft

Bat 20

A Quiet diesel powered hand launched aircraft with autopilot (wing leveling and altitude hold) and 1 mile range (telemetry limited). Speed 15-40 mph.

Antonymous Cargo Amphibious Transport

Aircraft was built and operated for NASA Ames Research Center in 2001. Fully autonomous operation was achieved from San Francisco Bay. With the addition of fixed undercarriage, the airplane was also operated at Moffett Field.

Volcano

The Volcano aircraft is designed to carry a 15 lb payload over 750 miles and up to an altitude of 12000 ft.

Sensor Delivery and Data Trucking

Cooperative project with UC-Berkeley and the US Marine Corps.

Trochoid

The trochoidal wing planform has only 11% less area than a circular wing for a given size, yet has the desirable aerodynamic properties of a delta wing planform because its size normal to the flow direction increases along the wing centerline.

Helirocket

Fully autonomous small ducted-fan hovering vehicle.

October 14 2008 V-Bat 3.0 Completes autonomous hover flight tests

September 8 2008 Bat 3 maps San Bernabe Vineyard

August 15 2008 Bat 3 flies at Edwards AFB for FAA ARC committee

August 4 2008 New Mexico State University Bat 3 receives FAA COA for aerial imaging at Jornada test range

July 7 2008 MLB Bat 3 now available with Cloud Cap Piccolo autopilot and TASE gimbal hardware

June 18 2008 MLB products featured on Engineering TV webcast

June 14 2007 MLB announces image stitching software for Bat 3 aerial mapping system

June 1 2007 Bat 3 soars to success at Talisman Sabre exercise

June 12 2006 V-Bat 2.0 completes full envelope flight tests

May 1 2006 MLB Bat 4 Enters Production

June 18 2004 MLB offers small diesel-fueled engines for UAVs

March 5 2004 MLB Bat UAV demonstrates autonomous vehicle following for convoy protection

February 6 2004 MLB Bat UAV participates in disaster response experiment at NASA-Ames

November 20 2003 MLB Bat UAV conducts imaging flight of power transmission corridor

October 30 2003 MLB Bat UAV demonstrates autonomous drops of inert submunitions

October 4 2003 MLB Bat UAV completes seven-hour flight and change detection experiment

August 18 2003 Aviation Week article highlights an MLB mapping flight

July 22 2003 NASA utilizes MLB Bat for Mars exploration research in the Arctic

July 21 2003 Department of Transportation researchers use MLB Bat for traffic monitoring demonstration in Columbus, Ohio

July 14 2003 MLB flies at the AUVSI Air Demo 2003 at the Patuxent River (Maryland) Naval Air Station

June 27 2003 US Forest Service, US Geological Survey, and MLB search for invasive species on the Big Island of Hawaii.

May 21 2003 MLB demonstrates traffic surveillance near Springfield, Virginia for the Department of Transportation

August 21 2002 Boston-area transportation infrastructure experiment conducted by MLB and NASA/DOT team

Mini-UAVs for Convoy Protection (700 KB). This article was the cover feature for the May/June 2004 edition of Unmanned Systems magazine.

Autonomous Robots in SWAT Applications: Research, Design, and Operations Challenges (220 Kb). MLB worked with the Mountain View/Palo Alto Regional SWAT Team to identify current and future roles of UAVs and other autonomous vehicles in the SWAT environment.

Integrated Aerodynamics and Control System Design for Tailless Aircraft (7.5 MB). This paper presents a numerical method for simultaneously designing an aircraft and its feedback control system to minimize drag with a fixed level of handling qualities.

Flight Tests of an Oblique Flying Wing Small Scale Demonstrator (3.2 MB). This paper summarizes the results of analytical and experimental work on oblique all-wing stability and control issues, including results from the flight test of a 20 foot span, 80 pound demonstrator model with an onboard computer stabilization system.

Design and Flight Test Results for Micro-Sized Fixed-Wing and VTOL Aircraft (87 Kb). This paper studies the importance of aerodynamics, propulsion, and mission requirements on the design of a mAV. A Multi-Disciplinary Optimization method is used to size mAV’s for a baseline mission.

Design of Micro Air Vehicles and Flight Test Validation (0.8 MB). Flight control, sensing, communication and propulsion have the strongest impact on mission performance.

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