Prof. Dejan Vukobratovic from ICONIC centre participated at IEEE CSCN 2023 panel on Standardisation landscape for 6G robotics services moderated by Prof. Mohammad Reza Shikh-Bahaei (Kings College London), along with panelists Mona Ghassemian (Huawei), Cristina Ciochina-Duchesne (Mitsubishi Electric), Prof. Albena Mihovska (Aarhus University) and Kamran Sayrafian (NIST).

The panel explored standard initiatives, professional organisation and industrial fora and alliances that are primary coordinate their efforts on specific subjects of communication and robotics. ICT examples are 3GPP, IETF, IEEE, ETSI, M2M, and Robotics examples are ISO/TC, IEC, A3, ria, ANSI, VDMA, IFR, ADRA, eu-robotics.

This panel included discussions related to integrating mobile communication capability into robotics systems had gained significant momentum and how this integration can give rise to new possibilities to address relevant industrial and societal challenges. The panel further discussed where the current communication systems fall short to satisfy these requirements and what needs to be overcome in 6G for future robotic and automation systems.