Characterizing the UAV-to-Machine UWB Radio Channel in Smart Factories

Vasilii Semkin; Enrico Maria Vitucci; Franco Fuschini; Marina Barbiroli; Vittorio Degli-Esposti; Claude Oestges

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3082312

Characterizing the UAV-to-Machine UWB Radio Channel in Smart Factories

Vasilii Semkin^*
, Enrico Maria Vitucci
, Franco Fuschini
, Marina Barbiroli
, Vittorio Degli-Esposti
, Claude Oestges

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	76542-76550
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3082312
Publication status	Published - 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

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. 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.

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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

automation
conscious factory
RF channel measurements
smart factory
UAV
UWB radio propagation

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