The importance of ground mobile robots (MRs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) within the research community, industry, and society is growing fast. Nowadays, many of these agents are equipped with communication systems that are, in some cases, essential to successfully achieve certain tasks. In this context, we have begun to witness the development of a new interdisciplinary research field at the intersection of robotics and communications. This research field has been boosted by the intention of integrating UAVs within the 5G and 6G communication networks and will undoubtedly lead to many important applications in the near future. Nevertheless, one of the main obstacles to the development of this research area is that most researchers address these problems by oversimplifying either the robotics or the communications aspects. Doing so impedes the ability to reach the full potential of this new interdisciplinary research area. In this tutorial, we present some of the modeling tools necessary to address problems involving both robotics and communication from an interdisciplinary perspective. As an illustrative example of such problems, we focus on the issue of communication-aware trajectory planning in this tutorial.

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当机器人技术遇上无线通信：入门教程


地面移动机器人 (MR) 和无人机 (UAV) 在研究界、工业界和社会中的重要性正在快速增长。如今，许多代理都配备了通信系统，在某些情况下，这些通信系统对于成功完成某些任务至关重要。在此背景下，我们开始见证机器人与通信交叉领域新的跨学科研究领域的发展。将无人机集成到 5G 和 6G 通信网络中的意图推动了这一研究领域的发展，无疑将在不久的将来带来许多重要的应用。然而，该研究领域发展的主要障碍之一是大多数研究人员通过过度简化机器人技术或通信方面来解决这些问题。这样做会阻碍充分发挥这一新的跨学科研究领域的潜力。在本教程中，我们从跨学科的角度介绍了一些解决涉及机器人和通信问题所需的建模工具。作为此类问题的说明性示例，我们在本教程中重点关注通信感知轨迹规划问题。