Wireless Communications for Smart Manufacturing and Industrial IoT: Existing Technologies, 5G and Beyond.

Smart manufacturing is a vision and major driver for change in today's industry. The goal of smart manufacturing is to optimize manufacturing processes through constantly monitoring, controlling, and adapting processes towards more efficient and personalised manufacturing. This requires and relies on technologies for connected machines incorporating a variety of computation, sensing, actuation, and machine to machine communications modalities.

Formation Control of Automated Guided Vehicles in the Presence of Packet Loss.

This paper presents the formation tracking problem for non-holonomic automated guided vehicles. Specifically, we focus on a decentralized leader-follower approach using linear quadratic regulator control. We study the impact of communication packet loss-containing the position of the leader-on the performance of the presented formation control scheme.