5G Swarm Production: Advanced Industrial Manufacturing Concepts Enabled by Wireless Automation

This article presents an overview of current Industry 4.0 applied research topics, addressed from both the industrial production and wireless communication points view. A roadmap toward achieving more advanced manufacturing visions concepts, such as “swarm production” (nonlinear fully decentralized production) is defined, highlighting relevant use cases, their associated requirements, well integrated technological solutions applicable to each them. Further, introduces Aalborg University 5G Smart Production Lab, lab test environment specifically designed prototype demonstrate different Industrial IoT cases enabled by integration robotics, edge-cloud platforms, autonomous systems operated over technologies 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi. Wireless performance results various operational trials are also presented for two cases: control mobile robots.