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Email

pdower@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Education
PhD
The Australian National University
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Newcastle
ORCID

0000-0002-9791-7776

Prof Peter Dower

Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

196 Scholarly works
19 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Hypersonic vehicle co-design for multi-stage mission planning
    DOI: 10.2514/6.2026-0369
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Coverage control and function approximation via semiconcave and semiconvex duality
    DOI: 10.1007/s00498-025-00411-1
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Bidirectional adversarial autoencoders for high precision metasurface design
    DOI: 10.1063/5.0284338
  • 2025

    Journal article

    A Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Approach to Ellipsoidal Approximations of Reachable Sets for Linear Time-Varying Systems
    DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2024.3512619
  • 2022

    Research grants (international)

    Computationally Tractable, Robust Co-Design of Hypersonic Vehicles
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Co-Design and Dynamic Mission Optimisation of Hypersonic Flight Vehicles
  • 2016

    Research Grant

    Predictive Models to Study Neuromuscular Control of Walking in Older People
Peter Dower

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2017
SIAM SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize
2012
IET Control Theory and Applications Premium Award
1994
University Medal The University of Newcastle (NSW)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Dynamic programming via the quadratic transform
    DOI: 10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107705
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    A Family of Objective Functions for Time-Varying Coverage Control
    DOI: 10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107959
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    An efficient numerical method for optimal control problems with low dimensional nonlinearities
    DOI: 10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11108031
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    GMM-Based Time-Varying Coverage Control
    DOI: 10.1109/CDC57313.2025.11312384
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Gradient-enhanced deep Gaussian processes for multifidelity modeling
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113474
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Multi-mission codesign of a hypersonic vehicle leading edge with heat flux constraints
    DOI: 10.2514/6.2025-0955

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2025

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Voronoi Partitions for Autonomous Teams
  • 2024

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Coordinating Multiple Unmanned Vehicles

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