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.