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News<\/h1>

– Patent Applications:<\/p>

  1. \u201cAcoustic Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Metasurfaces for Broadband, Programmable Wavefront Control in Underwater Communication Networks\u201d
    Inventors: F. Alizadeh, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, S. E. Thorsteinsson<\/li>
  2. \u201cAI-Guided Underwater Cooperative AUV Swarm for Probabilistic Capelin Spawning Habitats Survey with Graceful Degradation\u201d
    Inventors: J\u00f3nsson, K. Andersen Mahgoli, I. F. Akyildiz, T. S. Giesta da Silva, G. J. \u00d3skarsson, S. \u00de\u00f3r J\u00f3nsson, K. Andersen<\/li><\/ol>

    – F. Alizadeh, I. F. Akyildiz, K. \u00a0Andersen, S. E. \u00deorsteinsson, \u201cActive Metasurfaces for Underwater Acoustic RIS: Control-Ready Reflection Modeling and Multifunctional Wave Control,\u201d submitted for publication, 2026.<\/p>

    – F. Alizadeh, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, S. E. \u00deorsteinsson, \u201cProgrammable Active Metasurfaces for Underwater Acoustic RIS: OAM Wave Synthesis and Structured-Beam Communications,\u201d submitted for publication, 2026.<\/p>

    – Mahgoli, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, T. S. Giesta da Silva, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson, \u201cLearning Ocean Channel Cartography: A Digital Twin Approach to Communication-Aware Autonomy for Maritime 6G,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Communications,<\/em>Under Review (Manuscript ID: TCOM-TPS-26-0206).<\/p>

    – Alizadeh, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, S. E. \u00deorsteinsson, \u201cTunable Active Metasurfaces for Next Generation Underwater aRIS-assisted Communication,\u201d ACM WUWNet conference, 2025. Received the Best Paper Award.<\/p>

    – Mahgoli, I. F. Akyildiz, T. S. Giesta da Silva, S. T. Jonsson, K. Andersen, and S. E. \u00deorsteinsson, \u201cSteering Uncertainty: Physics-Informed Mean Field Games for AUV Swarm Coordination in Underwater IoT,\u201d IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Things (ISIoT 2026),\u00a0Reykjavik, Iceland. Submitted for Presentation.<\/em><\/p>

    – <\/u>Mahgoli, \u00a0I. F. Akyildiz, T. S. Giesta da Silva, K. Andersen, S.E. Thorsteinsson, \u201cLiquid Neural Semantic Communication for Packet-Loss Resilient Underwater Acoustics,\u201d\u00a0Eighth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference, UComms 2026, Sestri Levante, Italy. Submitted for Presentation.<\/em><\/p>

    – Mahgoli, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, S. E. \u00deorsteinsson, and M. \u00d6. \u00dalfarsson, \u201cA Hierarchical AI-Driven Hybrid Communication Framework for Underwater Swarm Coordination: Enabling Nanosecond Synchronization and Robust Cooperative MIMO Performance,\u201d IEEE Internet of Things Journal, <\/em>Published in 30th of March 2026.<\/p>

    – H. Guo, , I. F. Akyildiz, , S. E. Thorsteinsson, and K. Andersen, \u201cJoint Wireless Charging Planning and Task Assignment for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles\u201d, to appear at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2025.<\/p>

    – Farzad Alizadeh, Ian F. Aky\u0131ld\u0131z, Kristinn Andersen, S\u00e6mundur E. \u00deorsteinsson, “Tunable Active Acoustic Metasurfaces for Next Generation Underwater aRIS-assisted Communication” submitted for publication, August 2025.<\/p>

    – Farzad Alizadeh, Ian F. Akyildiz, Hongzhi Guo, Kristinn Andersen, and Saemundur E. Thorsteinsson, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Underwater Acoustic Wave Control: Tonpilz Transducer Design, Beam Steering, and Coupling Mitigation”,\u00a0 submitted for publication, August 2025.<\/div>
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    – L. Zhao, J. Tan, J. Wang, I.F. Akyildiz, Z. Sun, \u201cIncreasing Underwater Channel Capacity and Dof using Acoustic RIS\u201d, submitted for publication, July 2025.<\/div>
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    – N. Tang, Y. Liu, X. Chu and I.F. Akyildiz, “Optimal Energy Efficiency in Underwater Acoustic Backscatter Networks: A Piezoelectric Design and Channel Optimization Framework”, submitted for publication, July 2025.<\/div>
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    – Prof. Akyildiz received a new patent on Underwater Communication Networks. The title of the patent is<\/div>
    “Universal Multi-Mode Underwater Software Defined Modem”\u00a0 with Patent Number US 0090080 A1, July 2025.<\/div>
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    – T. Girici, H. Guo, I. F. Akyildiz, K. Andersen, and S. E. Thorsteinsson, \u201cFormation Control for Swarm Underwater Vehicles using Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning,\u201d in Proc. 8th Int. Balkan Conf. on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom), June 2025.<\/div>
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    – L.Zhao, J. Tan, J. Wang, I.F. Akyildiz and Z. Sun, \u201cCovering Underwater Shadow Zones using Acoustic Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces\u201d,\u00a0 IEEE Infocom (premier conference in Networking) Proceedings, May 2025.<\/div><\/div>

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    – S. J. Nor\u00f0fj\u00f6r\u00f0, S. \u00a0E. Thorsteinsson, and K. Andersen <\/span>“Powering Underwater Robotics Sensor Networks through Ocean Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer Methods”, submitted for publication, December 2024.<\/span><\/div>
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    – Prof. Akyildiz received a new patent on Underwater Communication Networks. The title of the patent is “Systems, Methods and Computer Readable Media of Automatic Network Slicing of Underwater Acoustic Communication System Resources”<\/a> with Patent Number US 11,569, 920 B1 on Jan 31, 2023.<\/div>
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    – N. Tang, Y. Liu, X. Chu, I.F. Akyildiz, “Design, Modeling and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Backscatter Communications”, IEEE ICC (International Computer Communications) Conf., Denver, Colorado, USA, June 2024.<\/div><\/div>
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    – Prof. Akyildiz gave a keynote speech entitled “On The Research Progress for Underwater Wireless Communication Networks” at the 17th<\/sup>\u00a0Int. ACM Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (ACM WUWNET’23) in Shenzhen, China on Nov 24-26, 2023.<\/div>
    https:\/\/wuwnet.acm.org\/2023\/<\/a><\/div>
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    – A call issued for Ph.D. and M.S. student applications, July 2023.<\/div>

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    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 2023. News – Patent Applications: \u201cAcoustic […]<\/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":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"disabled","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1835","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_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":205,"href":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/haf.hi.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1835\/revisions\/2382"}],"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}]}}