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Herschel Pangborn

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Larson Transportation Institute
  • Aerospace Engineering

230 Reber Building

hxp5027@psu.edu

814-867-3293

Personal or Departmental Website

Research Areas:

Energy Systems; Sensors & Controls; Thermal/Fluid Sciences; Transportation Systems

Interest Areas:

Dynamic systems and control, energy management in vehicles and buildings, predictive and distributed/hierarchical control, switched systems, modeling and optimization of electro-thermal systems

 
 

 

Education

  • BS, Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2013
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015
  • Ph D, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Trevor Bird, Herschel Pangborn, Neera Jain and Justin Koeln, 2023, "Hybrid zonotopes: A new set representation for reachability analysis of mixed logical dynamical systems", Automatica, 154
  • Christopher Aksland, Pamela Tannous, Mindy Wagenmaker, Herschel Pangborn and Andrew Alleyne, 2022, "Hierarchical predictive control of an unmanned aerial vehicle integrated power, propulsion, and thermal management system", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 31, (3)
  • Jacob Siefert, Trevor Bird, Justin Koeln, Neera Jain and Herschel Pangborn, 2022, "Robust successor and precursor sets of hybrid systems using hybrid zonotopes", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7
  • Jacob Siefert, Daniel Leister, Justin Koeln and Herschel Pangborn, 2021, "Discrete reachability analysis with bounded error sets", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 6
  • Ricardo de Castro, Helder Pereira, Rui Esteves Araujo, Jorge Varela Barreras and Herschel Pangborn, 2021, "qTSL: A multi-layer control framework for managing capacity, temperature, stress and losses in hybrid balancing systems", Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 30, (3)
  • G. Jeffrey Snyder, Saniya LeBlanc, Doug Crane, Chris E Forest, Herschel Pangborn, Alexander Rattner, Leah Borgsmiller and Shashank Priya, 2021, "Distributed and localized cooling with thermoelectrics", Joule, 5, (4)
  • Justin P. Koeln, Herschel Pangborn, Matthew A. Williams, Malia L. Kawamura and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2019, "Hierarchical control of aircraft electro-thermal systems", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 28, (4)
  • Satya Ravi Teja Peddada, Daniel R. Herber, Herschel Pangborn, Andrew G. Alleyne and James T. Allison, 2019, "Optimal flow control and single split architecture exploration for fluid-based thermal management", Journal of Mechanical Design, 141, (8)
  • Matthew A. Williams, Justin P. Koeln, Herschel Pangborn and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2018, "Dynamical graph models of aircraft electrical, thermal, and turbomachinery components", Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 140, (4)
  • Herschel Pangborn, Justin P. Koeln, Matthew A. Williams and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2018, "Experimental validation of graph-based hierarchical control for thermal management", Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 140, (10)
  • Herschel Pangborn, Joel E Hey, Timothy O. Deppen, Andrew G Alleyne and Timothy S Fisher, 2017, "Hardware-in-the-loop validation of advanced fuel thermal management control", Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 31, (4)
  • Herschel Pangborn and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2016, "Switched linear control for refrigerant superheat recovery in vapor compression systems", Control Engineering Practice, 57
  • Herschel Pangborn, Andrew G. Alleyne and Ning Wu, 2015, "A comparison between finite volume and switched moving boundary approaches for dynamic vapor compression system modeling", International Journal of Refrigeration, 53

Conference Proceedings

  • Seho Park and Herschel Pangborn, 2022, "Noncausal lifting linearization for nonlinear dynamic systems under model predictive control", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
  • Trevor Bird, Neera Jain, Herschel Pangborn and Justin Koeln, 2022, "Set-based reachability and the explicit solution of linear MPC using hybrid zonotopes"
  • Herschel Pangborn, Austin Nash and Neera Jain, 2021, "Robust control co-design with receding-horizon MPC"
  • Ricardo de Castro, Helder Pereira, Rui Esteves Araujo, Jorge Varela Barreras and Herschel Pangborn, 2021, "Multi-layer control for hybrid balancing systems"
  • Seho Park and Herschel Pangborn, 2021, "Power and thermal management with battery degradation for hybrid electric vehicles"
  • Herschel Pangborn, Cary E. Laird and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2020, "Hierarchical hybrid MPC for management of distributed phase change thermal energy storage under pulsed loading"
  • Herschel Pangborn and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2019, "Cooperativity and hierarchical MPC of state-constrained switched power flow systems"
  • Pamela J. Tannous, Donald J. Docimo, Herschel Pangborn and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2019, "Hierarchical estimation for complex multi-domain dynamical systems"
  • Donald J Docimo, Herschel Pangborn and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2018, "Hierarchical control for electro-thermal power management of an electric vehicle powertrain"
  • Satya Ravi Teja Peddada, Daniel Herber, Herschel Pangborn, Andrew G. Alleyne and James T. Allison, 2018, "Optimal flow control and single split architecture exploration for fluid-based thermal management"
  • Herschel Pangborn, Justin P. Koeln and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2018, "Passivity and decentralized MPC of switched graph-based power flow systems"
  • Herschel Pangborn, Matthew Williams, Justin Koeln and Andrew Alleyne, 2017, "Graph-based hierarchical control of thermal-fluid power flow systems"
  • Justin P. Koeln, Matthew A. Williams, Herschel Pangborn and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2016, "Experimental validation of graph-based modeling for thermal fluid power flow systems"
  • Herschel Pangborn, Joel E. Hey, Timothy O. Deppen, Andrew G. Alleyne and Timothy S. Fisher, 2016, "Hardware-in-the-loop validation of advanced fuel thermal management control"
  • Herschel Pangborn and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2016, "Switched linear control of vapor compression systems under highly transient conditions"
  • Herschel Pangborn and Andrew G. Alleyne, 2015, "Dynamic modeling of heat exchangers with humidity and condensation"
  • Herschel Pangborn, Sean N Brennan and Karl M Reichard, 2013, "Development and applications of a robot tracking system for NIST test methods"
  • Seho Park and Herschel Pangborn, , "Multi-timescale system separation via data-driven identification within a singular perturbation framework", America Control Conference
  • Justin Koeln, Trevor Bird, Jacob Siefert, Justin Ruths, Herschel Pangborn and Neera Jain, , "zonoLAB: A MATLAB toolbox for set-based control systems analysis using hybrid zonotopes", American Control Conference
  • Trevor Bird, Jacob Siefert, Herschel Pangborn and Neera Jain, , "A set-based approach for robust control co-design", American Control Conference

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

  • Best Paper Award, Energy Systems Technical Committee, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, American Control Conference, 2019
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018
  • Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2015 - 2018

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