TY - JOUR
T1 - 5G Swarm Production: Advanced Industrial Manufacturing Concepts enabled by Wireless Automation
AU - Rodriguez, Ignacio
AU - Mogensen, Rasmus Suhr
AU - Schjørring, Allan
AU - Razzaghpour, Mohammad
AU - Cuevas, Roberto Maldonado
AU - Berardinelli, Gilberto
AU - Adeogun, Ramoni Ojekunle
AU - Christensen, Per Hartmann
AU - E. Mogensen, Preben
AU - Madsen, Ole
AU - Møller, Charles
AU - Pocovi, Guillermo
AU - Kolding, Troels E.
AU - Rosa, Claudio
AU - Jørgensen, Brian
AU - Barbera, SImone
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - This paper presents an overview of current Industry 4.0 applied research topics, addressed from both an industrial production and a wireless communication points of view. A roadmap towards achieving the more advanced industrial manufacturing visions and concepts, such as the ”swarm production” (non-linear and fully de-centralized production), is defined, highlighting relevant industrial use cases, their associated communication requirements, as well as the integrated technological wireless solutions applicable to each of them. Further, the paper introduces the Aalborg University 5G Smart Production Lab, an industrial lab test environment specifically designed to prototype and demonstrate different industrial IoT (IIoT) use cases enabled by the integration of robotics, edge-cloud platforms and autonomous systems operated over wireless technologies such as 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi. Wireless performance results from various operational trials are also presented for two use cases: wireless control of industrial production and wireless control of autonomous mobile robots.
AB - This paper presents an overview of current Industry 4.0 applied research topics, addressed from both an industrial production and a wireless communication points of view. A roadmap towards achieving the more advanced industrial manufacturing visions and concepts, such as the ”swarm production” (non-linear and fully de-centralized production), is defined, highlighting relevant industrial use cases, their associated communication requirements, as well as the integrated technological wireless solutions applicable to each of them. Further, the paper introduces the Aalborg University 5G Smart Production Lab, an industrial lab test environment specifically designed to prototype and demonstrate different industrial IoT (IIoT) use cases enabled by the integration of robotics, edge-cloud platforms and autonomous systems operated over wireless technologies such as 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi. Wireless performance results from various operational trials are also presented for two use cases: wireless control of industrial production and wireless control of autonomous mobile robots.
KW - 5G
KW - Smart Production
KW - Mobile Robots
KW - Production line
KW - Wireless
KW - Automation
KW - Factories of the Future
KW - Manufacturing
KW - Edge-cloud
M3 - Journal article
JO - I E E E Communications Magazine
JF - I E E E Communications Magazine
SN - 0163-6804
ER -