Impact

Presentations

  • Aijun Song, “Toward mobile underwater sensor networks”, invited seminar, National Taiwan University, May 21, 2025, Taipei.
  • Brodie Alexander, Joyce Ma, Jack Balthasar, and Aijun Song, “Compact acoustic transceivers for inter-vehicle localization and coordination,” 189th Society of America meeting– joint with the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1-5 December 2025.
  • Kylie Corcoran, Brodie Alexander, Kunlong Zheng, and Aijun Song, “Chirp-based analog communication for the underwater acoustic channel,” 189th Acoustical Society of America meeting– joint with the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1-5 December 2025.
  • Aijun Song, “Integrating acoustic communications with underwater autonomy,” Water Observing Technology Forum, April 23-25, 2024, Tuscaloosa, AL.
  • Aijun Song, “Toward underwater mobile networks with autonomous vehicles,” AWI WaterWorks Seminar, March 29, 2024, Tuscaloosa, AL.
  • Aijun Song, “mu-Net: Infrastructure to Advance Mobile Underwater Wireless Networking Research,” NSF CIRC Principal Investigators Meeting, Nov 7, 2023, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Aijun Song, “Wireless mobile communications in the ocean,” Departmental seminar, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, invited talk, Sept 2023, virtual.
  • Aijun Song and Fumin Zhang, “Integration of Acoustic Communication with Underwater Autonomy: A Case Study,” 184th Acoustical Society of America meeting, May 8-12, Chicago IL., 2023.
  • Aijun Song, Xiaoyan Hong, Fumin Zhang, Zheng Peng, and Zhaohui Wang, “mu-Net: Community-shared infrastructure for mobile underwater acoustic networks,” 181st meeting of Acoustical Society of America meeting, Nov 29-Dec 3, 2021, Seattle, WA.
  • Aijun Song, Fumin Zhang, Xiaoyan Hong, Zheng Peng, and Zhaohui Wang, “Infrastructure to Advance Mobile Underwater Wireless Networking Research”, NSF BLUE UCI Workshop, Jan 12-14, 2021.

Publications

  • G. Qin, J. Crawford, and A. Song, “Speeding Up and Slowing Down Algorithms Supported by Acoustic Sensing in the Underwater Environment,” in Ubiquitous Robotics, College Station, TX, 2025.
  • B. Yang, S. Dong, and X. Hong, “An Ad-Hoc Communication Assisted Distributed Particle Swarm Optimization Scheme for AUVs Underwater Search Task,” in Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2025), 2025.
  • J. Crawford, A. Sampathkumar, C. Pausina, J. K. Roy, G. Qin, and A. Song, “muNet-AUVSim: Integrated communication and navigation simulator for underwater vehicles,” in Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE Southeast Conf, Concord, NC, USA, 2025.
  • S. Dong, X. Hong, and B. Ghosh, “An Enhancing VBF Protocol for AUVs: Integrating Uncertainty Management and Energy Efficiency,” in Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE 44th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jersey City, NJ, USA, 2024.
  • D. Dugaev, S. Mayberry, Z. Peng, “Decentralized space-propagation-aware channel access for wireless underwater swarm of AUVs,” in GLOBECOM 2024 – 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2024.
  • S. Dong, X. Hong, and B. Ghosh, “AUV Networking: Addressing Positional Uncertainty in Underwater Environments,” in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNET ’24), 2024.
  • B. Ramachandran, S. T. Mayberry, and F. Zhang, “Acoustic Localization of Underwater Robots: A Time of Arrival-Based Particle Filter Approach Using Asynchronous Beacon Pinging,” in 2023 8th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE), vol. 7, 2023.
  • S. Dong and X. Hong, “Fuzzy Logic-Based Adaptive Transmission Power Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” in OCEANS 2023 – MTS/IEEE U.S. Gulf Coast, Biloxi, MS, USA, 2023.
  • Aswanth Sampathkumar, Dmitrii Dugaev, Aijun Song, Fei Hu, Zheng Peng, Fumin Zhang, “Plume Tracing Simulations Using Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” WUWNet’22, Nov 11-14, 2022, Boston, MA.
  • Connor L. Webb, Syed Murtaza Rizvi, Aswanth Sampathkumar, Brodie Alexander, Aijun Song, Fumin Zhang, “Integration of Acoustic Communication with Underwater Autonomy: A Case Study,” WUWNet’22, Nov 11-14, Boston, MA.
  • Scott Mayberry, Junkai Wang, Qiuyang Tao, Fumin Zhang, Shuai Dong, Connor L Webb, Aijun Song, Xiaoyan Hong, Dmitrii Dugaev, Zheng Peng, First Step Towards 𝜇Net: Open-Access Aquatic Testbeds and Robotic Ecosystem, WUWNet’21, Nov. 2021.

Code repositories

Outreach

  • muNet deployment camp, July 22-25, 2024. During the deployment camp, we showcased the lake testbed and conducted field tests with external participants to use the lake testbed. Five graduate students and two scientists from five universities attended the deployment camp. The UA team demonstrated the lake testbed in the lab. On the second and third days, the UA team conducted two field tests with the external participants. Environmental, acoustic, and navigational measurements from these tests have been shared with the external participants. Please visit https://ajsong.people.ua.edu/news/munet-deployment-camp-july-22-25 for details.
  • NHS robotics team, 2022-2023: Dr. Song’s research team, muNet lab, mentors the robotics team at the local Northridge High School (NHS). The NHS formed four sub-teams and attended the  at the 10th Annual Northern Gulf Coast Regional Competition for the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) program from April 28 to 30, 2023. The four sub-teams of the NHS won the following three awards. NHS HydroHelix team: first place in the Scout class; NHS PurpleTape: third place in the Navigator class; and NHS PureTide: third place in the Ranger class. Please visit: https://ajsong.people.ua.edu/news/archives/05-2023 for details.
  • NHS robotics team, 2021-2022: Dr. Song’s research team, muNet lab, mentors the robotics team at the local Northridge High School (NHS). With our support, the NHS students learned robotics/electronics basics, soldering, waterproofing, buoyancy, etc. During the 2022 spring semester, the team designed and built their own unique underwater robots, namely remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). They participated in the 9th Annual Northern Gulf Coast Regional Competition for the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) program from April 29 to May 1, 2022. In the three-day competition at Dauphin Island, they piloted their ROVs through a series of simulated science missions in a swimming pool. They showcased their robotics design through engineering presentations. Please visit https://ajsong.people.ua.edu/news/archives/05-2022 for details.
  • ROV summer camp, University of Alabama: July 13-15, 2021. In the summer camp, we taught a group of middle/high students the basics of electronics and robotics through fun activities. During the three-day program, the young students assembled their remotely operated vehicles and participated in robotics competitions in a swimming pool. Please visit: https://ajsong.people.ua.edu/news/rov-summer-camp-on-july-13-15 for details.

Youtube videos