TY - JOUR
T1 - 5G Swarm Production
T2 - 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 article presents an overview of current Industry 4.0 applied research topics, addressed from both the industrial production and wireless communication points of view. A roadmap toward achieving the more advanced industrial manufacturing visions and concepts, such as 'swarm production' (nonlinear and fully decentralized 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 article introduces the Aalborg University 5G Smart Production Lab, an industrial lab test environment specifically designed to prototype and demonstrate different Industrial IoT 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 article presents an overview of current Industry 4.0 applied research topics, addressed from both the industrial production and wireless communication points of view. A roadmap toward achieving the more advanced industrial manufacturing visions and concepts, such as 'swarm production' (nonlinear and fully decentralized 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 article introduces the Aalborg University 5G Smart Production Lab, an industrial lab test environment specifically designed to prototype and demonstrate different Industrial IoT 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
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101145034&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MCOM.001.2000560
DO - 10.1109/MCOM.001.2000560
M3 - Journal article
VL - 59
SP - 48
EP - 54
JO - I E E E Communications Magazine
JF - I E E E Communications Magazine
SN - 0163-6804
IS - 1
M1 - 9356516
ER -