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Validation of Cloud Robotics System in 5G MEC for Remote Execution of Robot Engines

5G MEC 기반 로봇 엔진 원격 구동을 위한 클라우드 로보틱스 시스템 구성 및 실증

  • Received : 2022.02.25
  • Accepted : 2022.03.22
  • Published : 2022.05.31
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Abstract

We implemented a real-time cloud robotics application by offloading robot navigation engine over to 5G Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) sever. We also ran a fleet management system (FMS) in the server and controlled the movements of multiple robots at the same time. The mobile robots under the test were connected to the server through 5G SA network. Public 5G network, which is already commercialized, has been temporarily modified to support this validation by the network operator. Robot engines are containerized based on micro-service architecture and have been deployed using Kubernetes - a container orchestration tool. We successfully demonstrated that mobile robots are able to avoid obstacles in real-time when the engines are remotely running in 5G MEC server. Test results are compared with 5G Public Cloud and 4G (LTE) Public Cloud as well.

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Acknowledgement

This project was supported by Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korean government (No. 2020-0-00857)

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