Airborne Urban Microcells with Grasping End Effectors: A Game Changer for 6G Networks?
Vasilis Friderikos

TL;DR
This paper introduces robotic airborne base stations with grasping capabilities to significantly extend service times for 6G networks, addressing energy limitations of traditional drone-based stations.
Contribution
The paper proposes a novel RABS design with grasping manipulators that can serve ground users for hours, surpassing the minutes of traditional hovering ABSs, and analyzes its energy efficiency.
Findings
Grasping RABS can provide service for hours instead of minutes.
Energy consumption analysis shows potential for energy-neutral grasping operations.
Design considerations and future research directions for RABS are outlined.
Abstract
Airborne (or flying) base stations (ABSs) embedded on drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deemed as a central element of envisioned 6G cellular networks where significant cell densification with mmWave/Terahertz communications will be part of the ecosystem. Nonetheless, one of the key challenges facing the deployment of ABSs is the inherent limited available energy of the drone, which limits the hovering time for serving ground users to the orders of minutes. This impediment deteriorate the performance of the UAV-enabled cellular network and hinders wide adoption and use of the technology. In this paper, we propose robotic airborne base stations (RABSs) with grasping capabilities to increase the serving time of ground users by multiple orders of magnitude compared to nominal hovering based operation. More specifically, to perform the grasping task, the RABS is equipped with…
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Taxonomy
TopicsUAV Applications and Optimization · Satellite Communication Systems · Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
