Communications-Aware Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities

• Published in: 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) pp. 366 - 371
• Main Authors: Licea, Daniel Bonilla, Silano, Giuseppe, Ghogho, Mounir, Saska, Martin
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 06-06-2023
• Subjects: 6G mobile communication; Atmospheric modeling; Autonomous aerial vehicles; Communication networks; Communications; Communications relay; Control Design; Industries; Land vehicles; Motion Planning; Multi-Rotor UAVs; Service robots
• DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10155882
• EISSN: 2575-7296

The use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has seen significant growth in the research community, industry, and society. Many of these agents are equipped with communication systems that are essential for completing certain tasks successfully. This has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field at the intersection of robotics and communications, which has been further driven by the integration of UAVs into 5G and 6G communication networks. However, one of the main challenges in this research area is how many researchers tend to oversimplify either the robotics or the communications aspects, hindering the full potential of this new interdisciplinary field. In this paper, we present some of the necessary modeling tools for addressing these problems from both a robotics and communications perspective, using the UAV communications relay as an example.