Research

• Modeling and optimization of high-speed vehicle trajectories
• Co-design of propulsion, power, and thermal management systems
• Energy-aware autonomy

Publications

1. J.A. Robbins, A.F. Thompson, S. Brennan, and H.C. Pangborn, "Energy-Aware Predictive Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Using a Hybrid Zonotope Constraint Representation," 2024. [arXiv]
2. J.J. Glunt, J.A. Siefert, A.F. Thompson, and H.C. Pangborn, “Error Bounds for Compositions of Piecewise Affine Approximations,” IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, 2024.
3. J.A. Siefert, T.J. Bird, A.F. Thompson, J.J. Glunt, J.P. Koeln, N. Jain, and H.C. Pangborn, “Reachability Analysis Using Hybrid Zonotopes and Functional Decomposition," 2024. [arXiv]
4. J. Siefert, A. Thompson, J. Glunt, and H. Pangborn, “Set-valued State Estimation Using Hybrid Zonotopes,"  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2023.
5. A. Thompson, A. Iezzi, H. Pangborn, R. Madabhushi, and O. Atassi, “Combined Design and Open-loop Control Optimization for Propulsion, Power, and Thermal Management of Hybrid-electric Aircraft,” IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2023.