The Tactile Internet

8Mapping Wireless Networked Robotics into Tactile Internet

Nicola Roberto ZEMA and Tara ALI-YAHIYA

Department of Computer Science, University of Paris-Saclay, France

A set of robots whose functionalities as a whole and as single elements are enhanced and enabled by wireless networking is called a Robotic Network and enclosed in the framework of Wireless Networked Robots (WNR). In this kind of network, the nodes need to exchange a large set of different types of data, ranging from positional information to large chunks of sensor data and even high quality video. The data also has to be delivered inside the temporal limits associated with the robotic control algorithms.

As the Tactile Internet (TI) is one of the few standards that considers the delivery of kinesthetic and large-bandwidth data among distant entities and inside strict temporal limitations, it is possible to map Wireless Networked Robots inside the Tactile Internet Architecture and Interfaces. This chapter deals with the aforementioned integration by first characterizing Wireless Networked Robots, describing the traffic generated by this kind of network and then translating the requisites, scenarios and uses cases into the Tactile Internet.

8.1. Wireless networked robots

It is possible to define Networked Robotics as a system of systems that has autonomous capabilities and network-based cooperation. The autonomous capability refers to the possibility for a system element to move and interact within and with its ...