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, S.J. Harnett, A.F. Thompson, S. Brennan, and H.C. Pangborn, "Integration of a Graph-Based Path Planner and Mixed-Integer MPC for Robot Navigation in Cluttered Environments," 2025. [arXiv]
2. A.F. Thompson, J.A. Robbins, M.E. Boler, and H.C. Pangborn, "Mixed-Integer Moving Horizon Estimation for Terrain-Aided Navigation Using Hybrid Zonotopes," IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium, 2025. (accepted)
3. J.J. Glunt, J.A. Siefert, A.F. Thompson, J. Ruths, and H.C. Pangborn, "Automated Functional Decomposition for Hybrid Zonotope Over-approximations with Application to LSTM Networks," American Control Conference, 2025. (accepted) [arXiv]
4. 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," American Control Conference, 2025. (accepted) [arXiv]
5. J.A. Siefert, T.J. Bird, A.F. Thompson, J.J. Glunt, J.P. Koeln, N. Jain, and H.C. Pangborn, “Reachability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Hybrid Zonotopes and Functional Decomposition," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025.
6. 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.
7. J. Siefert, A. Thompson, J. Glunt, and H. Pangborn, “Set-valued State Estimation Using Hybrid Zonotopes,"  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2023.
8. 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.