Paper Accepted at ICUAS 2026

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce that our paper has been accepted at the 2026 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS):

Hardware-Aware SE(3) Control Barrier Functions for Counter-UAS Interceptors with Directed Energy Payloads

Evangelos Vlachos, Panayiotis Kolios, and Christos Skliros

This paper addresses the safety-critical control problem of keeping a directed-energy phased-array payload’s boresight aimed at a target UAS during high-speed interception. We develop SE(3) Control Barrier Functions that enforce a field-of-view constraint on the interceptor’s attitude while respecting the physical limits of the onboard hardware, solved efficiently via ADMM at high update rates.

This work is supported by the EU Horizon Europe project EUSOME (Grant Agreement No. 101187121).

Submitted: AERIAL-EDGE — Twinning for Aerial Radio Measurement and Edge Data Intelligence

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We submitted AERIAL-EDGE to the Horizon Europe Twinning call (HORIZON-WIDERA-2026-02) today, with ATHENA RC as coordinator.

Full title: AERIAL-EDGE — Twinning for Aerial Radio Measurement and Edge Data Intelligence for Mediterranean Drone Corridors

AERIAL-EDGE addresses a critical gap for U-Space deployment: the lack of calibrated, open aerial channel datasets and the edge data infrastructure to turn raw radio measurements into actionable drone corridor intelligence. The project will establish a permanent AERIAL Lab at ATHENA RC through structured knowledge transfer from advanced European partners.

Consortium (€1,500,000 total, 36 months):

ATHENA RC, Greece (Coordinator)
TU Ilmenau, Germany
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
University of Sussex, UK
KIOS Research and Innovation Centre, University of Cyprus

This work builds on ATHENA RC’s aerial communications experience in the EUSOME project.

Evaluation results expected in late 2026.

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Paper Accepted at ICUAS 2026

Hardware-Aware SE(3) Control Barrier Functions for Counter-UAS Interceptors with Directed Energy Payloads

Submitted: AERIAL-EDGE — Twinning for Aerial Radio Measurement and Edge Data Intelligence