Publications

2026

• Al Mehadi, A., Sultana, A., Morgan, J., Harper, M., Wang, H., & Zane, R. Benchmarking MILP Guided BC-PPO for Grid Constrained EV Charging and V2G Charging. 2026 IEEE Green Technologies Conference.

• Horesh, N., Quinn, J.C., Trinko, D.A., Harper, M., Wang, H., Afridi, K.K., et al. The future of electrified transportation in the United States. IEEE Electrification Magazine, 13(4), 6–16.

2025

• Justice, C., Ramsdell, M., Smith, S., Stott, N., & Harper, M. Electric Vehicle Charger Reservation Service. 2025 IEEE 28th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• Justice, C., Goodrick, K., & Harper, M. Considering Feasibility of Electric Aircraft at a Regional Scale. 2025 IEEE 28th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• Tonks, G., Jones, T., Buxton, T., & Harper, M. CARLACharge: A Versatile Simulator for Wireless Charging Roadways in Diverse Urban, Highway, and High-Traffic Environments. 2025 IEEE 28th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• Haight, J., Peterson, I., Allred, C., & Harper, M. Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Learning in Isaac Lab: Scalable Simulation for Robotic Collaboration. 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

• Peterson, I., Allred, C., Morrey, J., & Harper, M. A Framework for Scalable Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Adversarial Reinforcement Learning in IsaacLab. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.01264.

• Ordonez, C., Harper, M., Boylan, J.T., & Collins, E.G. Jr. Trajectory Planning Using Dynamics and Power Models: A Heuristics Based Approach. CRC Press.

• Allred, C., Pusey, J., & Harper, M. Cultivating Quadrupedal Robotic Agility: Unveiling Reinforcement Learning Dynamics with the Boosted Tree Motif Classifier. International Journal of Semantic Computing, 19(1).

• Allred, C., Justice, C., Scalise, R., Gu, Y., Clark, J., Harper, M., & Pusey, J. From Walking to Parkour: A Structured Survey of RL for Dynamic Skills in Legged Robots.

2024

• Kocabas, H., Allred, C., & Harper, M. Efficient and Resilient Multi-Robot Exploration in Complex and Unknown Indoor Environments. 2024 Eighth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC).

• Allred, C., Haight, J., Justice, C., Peterson, I., Scalise, R., Hromadka, T., Pusey, J., & Harper, M. Coordinating search with foundation models and multi-agent reinforcement learning in complex environments. 2024 Eighth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC).

• Nelson, K., & Harper, M. POSEIDON-SAT: Data Enhancement for Optical Fishing Vessel Detection From Low-Cost Satellites. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 26(1).

• McMillen, K., Conover, J., & Harper, M. Electric Bus System Simulator for Optimizing and Expanding Existing Electric Bus Transport Systems. 2024 2nd International Conference on Power and Renewable Energy Engineering.

• Maheshwarkar, A., Geary, B., Harper, M., & Petruzza, S. A Comprehensive and Interactive Visualization Tool to Support Equitable Adoption of Electrified Transportation. 2024 IEEE 27th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• Gmeiner, R., & Harper, M. Artificial intelligence and economic planning. AI & SOCIETY, 39(3).

• Bohlourihajar, K., & Harper, M. Catalyzing urban health and sustainability: The impact of electric bus fleet electrification in justice 40 communities of Salt Lake County. 2024 Forum for Innovative Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS).

• Lewis, B., Jones, S., Swenson, C., Moon, K., & Harper, M. Applying Machine Learning to Equatorial Plasma Bubble Now Casting on CubeSats.

2023

• Kocabas, H., & Harper, M. Unknown Building Exploration via Frontier Incentivization under Various Communication Scenarios.

• Allred, C., Pusey, J., & Harper, M. Detecting ballistic motions in quadruped robots: A boosted tree motif classifier for understanding reinforcement learning. 2023 Seventh IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 143–151.

• Anderson, R., Anderson, T., Bailey, C., Anderson, J., & Harper, M. Stealth Centric A*: Bio-Inspired Navigation for Ground Robots. 2023 Seventh IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 1–2.

• Anderson, R., Anderson, J., Anderson, T., & Harper, M. Charger reservation web application. Software Impacts, 18, 100589.

• Allred, C., Kocabas, H., & Harper, M. Unknown building exploration simulator (UBES). Software Impacts, 18, 100576.

• Anderson, R., & Harper, M. Save Money, Get Charged: Facility-Tied Energy Management with Unknown and Unscheduled EV Charging. 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• Anderson, J., Anderson, R., Anderson, T., Bailey, C., & Harper, M. Stealth centric autonomous robot simulator (SCARS). Software Impacts, 16, 100497.

2022

• Allred, C., Kocabas, H., Harper, M., & Pusey, J. Terrain dependent power estimation for legged robots in unstructured environments. 2022 Sixth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 329–333.

• Anderson, R., Anderson, T., & Harper, M. Power and transportation collection and visualization. Software Impacts, 14, 100386.

• Bailey, C., Jones, B., Clark, M., Buck, R., & Harper, M. Electric vehicle autonomy: Realtime dynamic route planning and range estimation software. 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• Kocabas, H., Allred, C., & Harper, M. Divide and survey: Observability through multi-drone city roadway coverage. 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 1–7.

• Shamma, Z.S., Jones, B., Clark, M., Bailey, C., & Harper, M. Electric vehicle range prediction estimator (EVPRE). Software Impacts, 13, 100369.

2021

• Allred, C., Russell, M., Harper, M., & Pusey, J. Improving methods for multi-terrain classification beyond visual perception. 2021 Fifth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 96–99.

• Bailey, C., & Harper, M. Improving Real-Time Energy-Efficient Trajectory Planning Via Machine Learning. 2021 Fifth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 50–55.

• Harper, M., Ordonez, C., & Collins, E. SBMPO: Sampling based model predictive optimization for robot trajectory planning. Software Impacts, 10, 100159.

• Gmeiner, R., & Harper, M. Artificial Intelligence and Economic Calculation. Methodist University (mimeo).