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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).

Decision Intelligence for Robotics, Embedded and Cooperative Technologies (DIRECT) Lab at Utah State University. Located at ENINV210