{"id":1835,"date":"2021-02-02T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T08:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/?page_id=1835"},"modified":"2026-09-06T03:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:08:28","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1835\" class=\"elementor elementor-1835\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-375eff6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"375eff6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66ab359 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"66ab359\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6871587 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6871587\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">HAF: Center for Robotics and Wireless Communications in Challenging Environments<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e2de8fd elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e2de8fd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><div>Ranns\u00f3knasetur vi\u00f0 H\u00e1sk\u00f3la \u00cdslands um \u00fer\u00f3un t\u00e6kni fyrir erfi\u00f0u umhverfi, svo sem ne\u00f0ansj\u00e1var, \u00e1 heimskautasv\u00e6\u00f0um og \u00e1 st\u00f6\u00f0um me\u00f0 takmarka\u00f0 a\u00f0gengi.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>Fj\u00e1rmagna\u00f0 me\u00f0 \u00f6ndvegisstyrk fr\u00e1 Ranns\u00f3knasj\u00f3\u00f0i \u00cdslands \u00ed jan\u00faar 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.rannis.is\/\">Icelandic Research Fund<\/a>\u00a0in January 2023.<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3a06749 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3a06749\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c6ca6d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6c6ca6d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pexels-filip-kristov-15537421.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0532b2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c0532b2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54e2b9f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"54e2b9f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pexels-fabio-partenheimer-712398-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80eeb1f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"80eeb1f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03f19a1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"03f19a1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c03a9c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c03a9c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"haf-news\"><h2>News<\/h2><ul><li>F. Alizadeh, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Towards Buoy-Free Networks: Adaptive Resource Allocation for Concurrent AUV-to-UAV Communication via Translational Acoustic-RF (TARF) Modes<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>submitted for publication, August 2026.<\/li><li>F. Alizadeh, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Structured Acoustic-RF Multiplexing for Buoy-Free Mobile AUV-to-UAV Communication<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>submitted for publication, July 2026.<\/li><li><strong>Patent Applications:<\/strong><ol><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ol><li>\u201c<strong>Acoustic Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurfaces for Broadband, Programmable Wavefront Control in Underwater Communication Networks<\/strong>.\u201d<p>Inventors: F. Alizadeh, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson.<\/p><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol><p><!-- Verify this inventor list against the filed patent application before publishing. --><\/p><ol><li>\u201c<strong>AI-Guided Underwater Cooperative AUV Swarm for Probabilistic Capelin Spawning Habitats Survey with Graceful Degradation<\/strong>.\u201d<p>Inventors: M. Mahgoli, I. F. Akyildiz, T. S. Giesta da Silva, G. J. \u00d3skarsson, S. \u00de. J\u00f3nsson, and K. Andersen.<\/p><\/li><\/ol><\/li><li>F. Alizadeh, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Active Metasurfaces for Underwater Acoustic RIS: Control-Ready Reflection Modeling and Multifunctional Wave Control<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>submitted for publication, 2026.<\/li><li>F. Alizadeh, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Programmable Active Metasurfaces for Underwater Acoustic RIS: OAM Wave Synthesis and Structured-Beam Communications<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>submitted for publication, 2026.<\/li><li>M. Mahgoli, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, T. S. Giesta da Silva, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Learning Ocean Channel Cartography: A Digital Twin Approach to Communication-Aware Autonomy for Maritime 6G<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/><em>IEEE Transactions on Communications<\/em>,<br \/>vol. 74, pp. 11534\u201311549, 2026.<br \/>DOI:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/TCOMM.2026.3712573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>10.1109\/TCOMM.2026.3712573<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>F. Alizadeh, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Tunable Active Metasurfaces for Next Generation Underwater aRIS-Assisted Communication<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>in <em>Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (WUWNet 2025)<\/em>,<br \/>Shenzhen, China, Article 8, pp. 1\u20138, published online May 22, 2026.<br \/><strong>Received the Best Paper Award.<\/strong><br \/>DOI:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3784941.3784966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>10.1145\/3784941.3784966<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>M. Mahgoli, I. F. Akyildiz, T. S. Giesta da Silva, S. \u00de. J\u00f3nsson,<br \/>K. Andersen, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Steering Uncertainty: Physics-Informed Mean Field Games for AUV Swarm Coordination in Underwater IoT<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/><em>IEEE DCOSS ISIoT 2026 Workshop<\/em>,<br \/>Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland, accepted\/in press, 2026.<\/li><li>M. Mahgoli, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, S. E. \u00deorsteinsson,<br \/>and M. \u00d6. \u00dalfarsson,<br \/>\u201c<strong>A Hierarchical AI-Driven Hybrid Communication Framework for Underwater Swarm Coordination: Achieving Sub-Microsecond Synchronization and Robust Cooperative MIMO Performance<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/><em>IEEE Internet of Things Journal<\/em>,<br \/>vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 26932\u201326948, June 2026.<br \/>Published online March 30, 2026.<br \/>DOI:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/JIOT.2026.3678823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>10.1109\/JIOT.2026.3678823<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>H. Guo, I. F. Akyildiz, S. E. \u00deorsteinsson, and K. Andersen,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Joint Wireless Charging Planning and Task Assignment for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>in <em>GLOBECOM 2025\u20142025 IEEE Global Communications Conference<\/em>,<br \/>pp. 5472\u20135477, 2025.<br \/>DOI:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11432094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>10.1109\/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11432094<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>L. Zhao, J. Tan, J. Wang, I. F. Akyildiz, and Z. Sun,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Acoustic RIS for Massive Spatial Multiplexing: Unleashing Degrees of Freedom and Capacity in Underwater Communications<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>in <em>IEEE INFOCOM 2026\u2014IEEE Conference on Computer Communications<\/em>,<br \/>pp. 1\u201310, 2026.<br \/>DOI:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>10.1109\/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571242<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>Prof. Akyildiz is a co-inventor of the U.S. patent<br \/>\u201c<strong>Universal Multi-Mode Underwater Software Defined Modem<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>U.S. Patent No. <strong>12,396,064 B2<\/strong>,<br \/>granted August 19, 2025.<\/li><li>T. Girici, H. Guo, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Formation Control for Swarm Underwater Vehicles Using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>in <em>BalkanCom 2025\u20148th International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking<\/em>,<br \/>Piraeus, Greece, June 2025.<br \/>DOI:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/BALKANCOM65827.2025.11186029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>10.1109\/BALKANCOM65827.2025.11186029<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>L. Zhao, J. Tan, J. Wang, I. F. Akyildiz, and Z. Sun,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Covering Underwater Shadow Zones Using Acoustic Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>in <em>IEEE INFOCOM 2025\u2014IEEE Conference on Computer Communications<\/em>,<br \/>pp. 1\u201310, 2025.<br \/>DOI:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/INFOCOM55648.2025.11044529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>10.1109\/INFOCOM55648.2025.11044529<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>S. J. Nordfjord, S. E. \u00deorsteinsson, and K. Andersen,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Powering Underwater Robotics Sensor Networks Through Ocean Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer Methods: Systematic Review<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/><em>Journal of Marine Science and Engineering<\/em>,<br \/>vol. 13, no. 9, Article 1728, September 2025.<br \/>DOI:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/jmse13091728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>10.3390\/jmse13091728<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>Prof. Akyildiz is a co-inventor of the U.S. patent<br \/>\u201c<strong>Systems, Methods and Computer-Readable Media of Automatic Network Slicing of Underwater Acoustic Communication System Resources<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>U.S. Patent No. <strong>11,569,920 B1<\/strong>,<br \/>granted January 31, 2023.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/patentjan24.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>View patent announcement<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>N. Tang, Y. Liu, X. Chu, and I. F. Akyildiz,<br \/>\u201c<strong>Design, Modelling and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Backscatter Communications<\/strong>,\u201d<br \/>in <em>ICC 2024\u2014IEEE International Conference on Communications<\/em>,<br \/>Denver, Colorado, USA, pp. 4227\u20134232, June 2024.<br \/>DOI:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/ICC51166.2024.10623056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>10.1109\/ICC51166.2024.10623056<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>Prof. Akyildiz gave a keynote speech entitled<br \/>\u201c<strong>On the Research Progress for Underwater Wireless Communication Networks<\/strong>\u201d<br \/>at the 17th International ACM Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems,<br \/><em>ACM WUWNet 2023<\/em>,<br \/>held in Shenzhen, China, November 24\u201326, 2023.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wuwnet.acm.org\/2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>Conference website<br \/><\/a>.<\/li><li>A call was issued for Ph.D. and M.S. student applications, July 2023.<\/li><li>The HAF project received a Grant of Excellence from the Icelandic Research Fund, February 2023.<\/li><\/ul><\/section>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9b7ab89 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9b7ab89\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29fafc1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"29fafc1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/HAF-AdvertisementForPhD-ENG-ICE-4.pdf\">Uppl\u00fdsingar um ums\u00f3kn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77de196 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"77de196\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0693852 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"0693852\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><div id='mvcwid'style='text-align: center; color: #000000;'><h3 class='wps_visitor_title'>Heims\u00f3knir<\/h3><div id=\"wpsvccount\"><div class=\"wps_text_glowing effect-white\">\n    \t\t\t\t\t\t<span>0<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>0<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>5<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>4<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>7<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>2<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div id=\"wpsvctable\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAF: Center for Robotics and Wireless Communications in Challenging Environments A research center at the University of Iceland for the development of technologies for challenging and harsh environments, such as underwater, in arctic regions and locations with limited accessibility.\u00a0Funded by a Grant of Excellence from the Icelandic Research Fund\u00a0in January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","inspiro_page_layout":"narrow","inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1835","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":241,"href":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11942,"href":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1835\/revisions\/11942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}