Dipl.-Ing. Hannes Braßel from the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences at TU Dresden has won this year's "Industry Radar Design Competition 2021" from Continental Engineering Services. He received as a prize a series of short and medium range radar sensors such as the Continental SRR 308-21.

The research assistant at the Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics will use the new sensors for the chair's LIDAR II research project at Dresden Airport. There, the sensors will be used to improve the detection, tracking and conflict prediction capabilities of the current LiDAR-based scanning sensor system. These measurements will contribute to the validation of safety models for airport apron operations, which aim to detect even the smallest foreign objects.

The LIDAR II project explores safe apron operation through automated hazard detection using a (weather-) robust LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) -object recognition