Paper Accepted at ICUAS 2026

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).