Bonilla Licea, Daniel (Czech Technical University in Prague), Silano, Giuseppe (Czech Technical University in Prague), Ghogho, Mounir (Czech Technical University in Prague), Saska, Martin (Czech Technical University in Prague)

Communications-Aware Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities

Scheduled for presentation during the Poster Session "Poster Paper Session" (WeC1), Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 17:30−19:00, Foyer Area

2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 6-9, 2023, Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on April 26, 2024

Abstract

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.