Papers
4
Total Citations
157
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About
Jim Partan is a leading researcher in autonomous marine robotics, with a focus on enabling persistent, long-range ocean exploration and monitoring through coordinated autonomous systems. His work bridges the critical gap between autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), envisioning a future where ship-free operations can conduct deep-ocean surveys with minimal human intervention. Partan’s most cited paper (71 citations) lays out this transformative vision, while his development of a multi-band acoustic modem (44 citations) provided essential communication and navigation hardware for 21-inch AUVs, directly advancing the field’s practical capabilities. Beyond vehicle coordination, Partan has made significant contributions to marine bioacoustics, designing low-complexity lossless compression algorithms for underwater sound recordings (28 citations) to extend the duration and bandwidth of autonomous listening devices. His recent work on near real-time detection of low-frequency baleen whale calls from autonomous platforms (14 citations) demonstrates the application of his systems to real-world conservation challenges, enabling persistent monitoring of marine mammal occurrence. Partan’s research uniquely combines hardware innovation, systems engineering, and ecological application, making him a key figure in the development of long-endurance autonomous ocean observation.
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- 2Multi-band acoustic modem for the communications and navigation aid AUV44 citations · 2005
- 3Low complexity lossless compression of underwater sound recordings28 citations · 2013
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