Braasch authored a sense-and-avoid article on TheConversation.com. The article has since been picked up and republished by a number of additional news outlets. In the article, Braasch explains why obstacle detection is critical for long-distance drone operations and how small form-factor radar and lidar units will soon solve the problem.

About the Author

Michael Braasch is the Thomas Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ohio University (OU), a Principal Investigator with the Avionics Engineering Center (also at OU) and is the co-founder of GPSoft LLC (a software company specializing in navigation-related toolboxes for MATLAB). He has been conducting aircraft navigation research for 30 years and is an internationally recognized expert in GPS and inertial navigation.