Private 5G Solutions for Mobile Industrial Robots: A Feasibility Study

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Abstract

Mobile robots are an essential part of the vision of flexible production in a smart factory. To monitor and connect the robots, reliable and low latency communication is necessary. In this work, we conduct packet-based active measurements to evaluate the performance of a state-of-the-art 5G standalone system in a production environment. The focus is on whether 5G connections can meet the requirements specified by 3G PP in terms of delay and reliability. The results indicate that without cross-traffic, the requirement of a delay of less than 10 ms for 99.9 % of the packets can be met for the remote control and fleet management of mobile robots. However, as soon as cross-traffic is injected, especially in the uplink, the upper percentiles of the delay increase significantly, thus failing to hold the reliability requirements.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-6
ISBN (electronic)978-1-6654-9792-3
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Volume2022-June
ISSN1530-1346

Conference

Title27th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2022
Duration30 June - 3 July 2022
CityRhodes
CountryGreece

External IDs

Scopus 85141168958
ORCID /0000-0002-5266-1543/work/142241681
ORCID /0000-0001-7008-1537/work/142248639
ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/161891025