Research scope
Advance cost-asymmetric autonomy through simulation-first research.
Our mission is to build attritable interceptors that defeat cheap UAS (and detectable ground targets) with onboard vision—starting with honest bench and simulation work, not a slide deck.
Research context
Autonomy cost curves are increasingly studied in simulation: low-cost UAS scenarios stress legacy control architectures, motivating unified guidance research across scenario classes.
Vandaris studies one autonomous guidance stack for that problem—evaluated through simulation and HITL validation, not field deployment.
Experimental scenarios
Simulated autonomous tracking against aerial and ground-target trajectories—studied as closed-loop control problems in HITL environments.
Counter-UAS
Autonomous tracking guidance for UAS scenarios—validated in HITL simulation only.
Ground-target tracking
Closed-loop guidance concepts for mobile ground-target trajectories in simulation.
Current experimental focus
Closed-loop autonomous guidance in HITL simulation—counter-UAS and ground-target profiles. Then reliability metrics in sim and documentation for academic publication.