TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterizing the UAV-to-Machine UWB Radio Channel in Smart Factories
AU - Semkin, Vasilii
AU - Vitucci, Enrico Maria
AU - Fuschini, Franco
AU - Barbiroli, Marina
AU - Degli-Esposti, Vittorio
AU - Oestges, Claude
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the FRS-FNRS (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique), Belgium, through the Research Project MACHAON, in part by EOS (Excellence of Science) project MUSEWINET (MUlti SErvice WIreless NETworks), in part by the Academy of Finland, in part by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the programme 'Dipartimenti di Eccellenza (2018-2022)-Precision Cyberphysical Systems Project (P-CPS),' and in part by the Eu COST Action IRACON (Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and Beyond) under Grant CA15104. The work of Vasilii Semkin was supported in part by the Jorma Ollila grant.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this work, the results of Ultra-Wideband air-to-ground measurements carried out in a real-world factory environment are presented and discussed. With intelligent industrial deployments in mind, we envision a scenario where the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle can be used as a supplementary tool for factory operation, optimization and control. Measurements address narrow band and wide band characterization of the wireless radio channel, and can be used for link budget calculation, interference studies and time dispersion assessment in real factories, without the usual limitation for both radio terminals to be close to ground. The measurements are performed at different locations and different heights over the 3.1-5.3 GHz band. Some fundamental propagation parameters values are determined vs. distance, height and propagation conditions. The measurements are complemented with, and compared to, conventional ground-to-ground measurements with the same setup. The conducted measurement campaign gives an insight for realizing wireless applications in smart connected factories, including UAV-assisted applications.
AB - In this work, the results of Ultra-Wideband air-to-ground measurements carried out in a real-world factory environment are presented and discussed. With intelligent industrial deployments in mind, we envision a scenario where the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle can be used as a supplementary tool for factory operation, optimization and control. Measurements address narrow band and wide band characterization of the wireless radio channel, and can be used for link budget calculation, interference studies and time dispersion assessment in real factories, without the usual limitation for both radio terminals to be close to ground. The measurements are performed at different locations and different heights over the 3.1-5.3 GHz band. Some fundamental propagation parameters values are determined vs. distance, height and propagation conditions. The measurements are complemented with, and compared to, conventional ground-to-ground measurements with the same setup. The conducted measurement campaign gives an insight for realizing wireless applications in smart connected factories, including UAV-assisted applications.
KW - automation
KW - conscious factory
KW - RF channel measurements
KW - smart factory
KW - UAV
KW - UWB radio propagation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107148497&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3082312
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3082312
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107148497
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 9
SP - 76542
EP - 76550
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
ER -
