Call for Papers

Remote intelligence in the application of robotics and the autonomous system relies heavily on seamless wireless connections. The 5G mobile network technology is empowering manufacturing enterprises with robot transformation and upgrading, robot interconnection, and remote interactive applications in production. However, there still exist many challenging 5G communication issues, such as, different communication protocols in the system varies with different robots, no disruptive changes to the physical layer, etc.

Currently, specialized networked systems consisting of intelligent robots may deploy, repair and relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network partitions to ensure data communication, change network topology to shape routing patterns, balance energy consumption, and respond to reported events in a timely and effective manner. While solving problems such as interference and mobility management, integrating robotics and autonomous systems into the communication network is crucial. However, by enabling sensing operations for complex and dynamic scenarios to process the data on edge or offload them toward existing cloud services, these horizontal design approaches can only provide limited performance gains. Consequently, alternative approaches based on the codesign of control systems, inference engines, and communication protocols must be explored. These new approaches are envisioned to enable the rapid deployment of new robotics applications. As an emerging field, robotic systems require new heterogeneous networking techniques and novel cloud/edge architectures for different data gathering and processing procedures that might unlock the potentials of such systems. This Special Issue (SI) uniquely calls for the study of wireless communication solutions both for and through robotic platforms. Consequently, the topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Cognitive visual aware trajectories for robotics and autonomous systems
• Design of control, communication, and edge inference mechanisms
• Design and implementation of mobility aware communication protocols
• Edge inference and security
• Machine learning-based wireless systems and services
• Network architecture with mobile base-stations and management protocols
• New multiple antenna technologies and deployments
• Optimization of protocol for mixed reality (MR) robotics applications
• Radar enhanced wireless systems
• Security and resilience mechanisms for robotics applications
• Time-sensitive and Deterministic Wireless Networks
• Terahertz communications and networks
• Multi-robot distributed communication and formation
• Cluster robot formation
• Network robot control system on a cloud platform
• Robot communication supported by Zigbee
• Serial bus technology using Ethernet

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Paper Submission Guidelines.

All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 August 2022
Initial Decision Date: 1 October 2022
Revised Manuscript Due: 1 November 2022
Final Decision Date: 1 December 2022
Final Manuscript Due: 15 February 2023
Publication Date: April 2023

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