Model-Free Control (MFC), which is easy to implement both from software and hardware viewpoints, permits the introduction of a high level control synthesis for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and the Industry 4.0. The choice of the User Diagram Protocol (UDP) as the Internet Protocol permits to neglect the latency. In spite of most severe packet losses, convincing computer simulations and laboratory experiments show that MFC exhibits a good Quality of Service (QoS) and behaves better than a classic PI regulator.
Industrial Internet of Things is an ultra-large-scale system that is much more sophisticated and fragile than conventional industrial platforms. The effective management of such a system relies heavily on the resilience of the network, especially the communication part. Imperative as resilient communication is, there is not enough attention from literature and a standardized framework is still missing. In awareness of these, this paper intends to provide a systematic overview of resilience in IIoT with a communication perspective, aiming to answer the questions of why we need it, what it is, h…
Information may be accessed from a distance thanks to computer networks. Wireless or wired networks are also possible. Due to recent developments in wireless infrastructure, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) were developed. Activities or events occurring in the environment are monitored, recorded, and managed by WSN. Through a variety of routing techniques, data relaying is done in these systems. The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is defined as the integration of complex physical automation systems made up of machinery and devices connected by sensors and managed by software. Thi…
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications（重庆邮电大学）；University of Guelph（圭尔夫大学）；Hubei University of Arts and Science（湖北文理学院）；Hosei University（法政大学）；RIKEN（理化学研究所）
Edge enabled Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform is of great significance to accelerate the development of smart industry. However, with the dramatic increase in real-time IIoT applications, it is a great challenge to support fast response time, low latency, and efficient bandwidth utilization. To address this issue, Time Sensitive Network (TSN) is recently researched to realize low latency communication via deterministic scheduling. To the best of our knowledge, the combinability of multiple flows, which can significantly affect the scheduling performance, has never been systematica…
In this work, we investigate proactive Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) using link-level simulations for multiple packet sizes, modulation orders, BLock Error Rate (BLER) targets and two delay budgets of 1 ms and 2 ms, in the context of Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) applications. In particular, we propose an enhanced proactive HARQ protocol using a feedback prediction mechanism. We show that the enhanced protocol achieves a significant gain over the classical proactive HARQ in terms of energy efficiency for almost all evaluated BLER targets at least for sufficiently large feedback…
In the second part of this paper, we develop a centralized packet transmission scheduling scheme to pair with the protocol designed in Part I and complete our medium access control (MAC) design for machine-type communications in the industrial internet of things. For the networking scenario, fine-grained scheduling that attends to each device becomes necessary, given stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements and diversified service types, but prohibitively complex for a large number of devices. To address this challenge, we propose a scheduling solution in two steps. First, we develop al…
Distributed computing (cloud) networks, e.g., mobile edge computing (MEC), are playing an increasingly important role in the efficient hosting, running, and delivery of real-time stream-processing applications such as industrial automation, immersive video, and augmented reality. While such applications require timely processing of real-time streams that are simultaneously useful for multiple users/devices, existing technologies lack efficient mechanisms to handle their increasingly multicast nature, leading to unnecessary traffic redundancy and associated network congestion. In this paper, we…
Digital Twin technology is playing a pivotal role in the modern industrial evolution. Especially, with the technological progress in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and the increasing trend in autonomy, multi-sensor equipped robotics can create practical digital twin, which is particularly useful in the industrial applications for operations, maintenance and safety. Herein, we demonstrate a real-world digital twin of a safety-critical robotics applications with a Franka-Emika-Panda robotic arm. We develop and showcase an edge-assisted collaborative digital twin for dynamic obstacle avoidance whic…
Norwegian University of Science and Technology（挪威科技大学）；Old Dominion University（奥多明尼昂大学）；University of North Carolina at Charlotte（北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校）；Chulalongkorn University（朱拉隆功大学）；Simula Research Laboratory（西穆拉研究实验室）
During the last two decades, distributed energy systems, especially renewable energy sources (RES), have become more economically viable with increasing market share and penetration levels on power systems. In addition to decarbonization and decentralization of energy systems, digitalization has also become very important. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), advanced optimization algorithms, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and other digitalization frameworks makes modern power system assets more intelligent, while vulnerable to cybersecurity risks. This paper proposes the concept of…
We consider the problem of controlling a series of industrial systems, such as industrial robotics, in a factory environment over a shared wireless channel leveraging edge computing capabilities. The wireless control system model supports the offloading of computational intensive functions, such as perception workloads, to an edge server. However, wireless communications is prone to packet loss and latency and can lead to instability or task failure if the link is not kept sufficiently reliable. Because maintaining high reliability and low latency at all times prohibits scalability due to reso…
