5G-ERA
5G Enhanced Robot Autonomy
(01/2021 – 12/2023)
Aim: To provide an enhanced 5G experimentation facility and relevant Network Applications (NetApps), to improve Quality of Experience (QoE) for vertical customers.
Τ5G-ERA will develop an enhanced 5G experimentation facility and relevant Network Applications (NetApps) for 3rd party application developers so as to provide them with a 5G experimentation playground to test and qualify their applications. The project’s main ambition is upon the user-centric paradigm of integrating vertical knowledge into the existing standardised 5G testing framework, to improve QoE for vertical customers. The respective QoE will be measured by tangible gain of robot’s enhanced autonomy from the collective intelligence, enabled by 5G experimental facilities.
The intended effort will “bridge” OSM and NetApps development and will minimise developers’ need for the comprehension of 5G when developing vertical applications of autonomous robotic systems, thus enabling rapid and automated integration and will ensure full-service orchestration such as testbeds to be exposed as standard APIs and deployed in private networks of robotic related vertical sectors.
Robot autonomy is essential for many 5G vertical sectors and can provide multiple benefits in automated mobility, Industry 4.0 and healthcare; furthermore, 5G technology has the great potential to enhance the robot autonomy. Use cases from four vertical sectors, namely public protection and disaster relief (PPDR), transport, healthcare and manufacturing will be validated in the project by rapid prototyping of NetApp solutions and enhanced vertical experiences on autonomy. These case studies can be regarded as showcases of the potential of 5G and 5G-ERA to the acceleration of the ongoing convergence of robotics, AI & cloud computing; and to unlock a next level of autonomy through 5G based learning in general.
For more information you may visit the project website: https://www.5g-era.eu/
