Robot-Oriented 6G Satellite-UAV Networks: Requirements, Paradigm Shifts, and Case Studies  

作　　者：Peng Wei Wei Feng Yunfei Chen Ning Ge Wei Xiang 

机构地区：[1]Department of Electronic Engineering,Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084,China [2]Department of Engineering,University of Durham,DH13LE,Durham,UK [3]School of Computing,Engineering and Mathematical Sciences,La Trobe University,Melbourne,VIC 3086,Australia

出　　处：《China Communications》2024年第2期74-84,共11页中国通信（英文版）

基　　金：supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.2020YFA0711301);in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.62341110 and U22A2002);in part by the Suzhou Science and Technology Project。

摘　　要：Networked robots can perceive their surroundings, interact with each other or humans,and make decisions to accomplish specified tasks in remote/hazardous/complex environments. Satelliteunmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) networks can support such robots by providing on-demand communication services. However, under traditional open-loop communication paradigm, the network resources are usually divided into user-wise mostly-independent links,via ignoring the task-level dependency of robot collaboration. Thus, it is imperative to develop a new communication paradigm, taking into account the highlevel content and values behind, to facilitate multirobot operation. Inspired by Wiener’s Cybernetics theory, this article explores a closed-loop communication paradigm for the robot-oriented satellite-UAV network. This paradigm turns to handle group-wise structured links, so as to allocate resources in a taskoriented manner. It could also exploit the mobility of robots to liberate the network from full coverage,enabling new orchestration between network serving and positive mobility control of robots. Moreover,the integration of sensing, communications, computing and control would enlarge the benefit of this new paradigm. We present a case study for joint mobile edge computing(MEC) offloading and mobility control of robots, and finally outline potential challenges and open issues.

关 键 词：closed-loop communication mobility control satellite-UAV network structured resource allocation 

分 类 号：TP242[自动化与计算机技术—检测技术与自动化装置] TN929.5[自动化与计算机技术—控制科学与工程]