Resumen:

The fourth industrial revolution - or Industry 4.0 (I4.0), will introduce major shifts in the way that products will be manufactured in the future. By integrating different cyberphysical systems (CPS), Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies and cloud computing; the factories of the future will be equipped with highly flexible manufacturing equipment offering also a high reliability, thereby increasing the overall production throughput. One of the key enablers for such revolution is wireless communication. By replacing existing wirelines in the current industrial equipment with wireless technologies, the overall cost of deployment will be reduced, while at the same time a faster re-configuration of the smart production facilities will be enabled. Moreover, the use of wireless technologies will also allow for new industrial use cases requiring full mobility support such as autonomous robots moving items over different workstations in the factory for the sake of manufacturing customized products. During this talk, the AAU Wireless Research Activities on Industrial Automation will be introduced, and illustrated with selected application examples of the various experimental activities run at the AAU 5G Smart Production Lab. This lab is equipped with the most modern wireless technologies such as 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi6, Industrial WLAN, and LoRa, which makes possible that AAU researchers and industrial partners work together in the integration and testing of advanced Industrial IoT systems for the factories of the future.

Fecha de presentación: 25 de marzo de 2021 a las 11:00

Ignacio Rodriguez Larrad, PhD

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Ignacio Rodriguez received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from University of Oviedo, Spain, and the M.Sc. degree in Mobile Communications and the Ph.D. degree in Wireless Communications from Aalborg University, Denmark. Since December 2016, he has been a Senior Researcher at the same institution, where he is currently coordinating the Industry 4.0 experimental research activities at the Wireless Communication Networks Section and the AAU 5G Smart Production Lab in collaboration with the Department of Materials and Production. Ignacio is also an External Research Engineer with Nokia Bell Labs, where he is involved in different 3GPP and ITU-R standardization activities. His research interests are mainly related to radio propagation, channel modeling, machine-to-machine communications, ultra-reliable and low-latency communications, 5G and Industrial IoT. He is a co-recipient of the IEEE VTS 2017 Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award, and in 2019, he was awarded with the 5G-prize by the Danish Energy Agency and the Danish Society of Telecommunication Engineers.