TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Lackner, Thorge
A1  - Jooste, Johannes
A1  - Palm, Daniel
T1  - Decision-support framework to evaluate the practicality of 5G for intralogistics use cases in standalone non-public networks
JF  - Procedia CIRP
N2  - In the context of Industry 4.0, intralogistics faces an increasingly complex and dynamic environment driven by a high level of product customisation and complex manufacturing processes. One approach to deal with these changing conditions is the decentralised and intelligent connectivity of intralogistics systems. However, wireless connectivity presents a major challenge in the industry due to strict requirements such as safety and real-time data transmission. In this context, the fifth generation of mobile communications (5G) is a promising technology to meet the requirements of safety-critical applications. Particularly, since 5G offers the possibility of establishing private 5G networks, also referred to as standalone non-public networks. Through their isolation from public networks, private 5G networks provide exclusive coverage for private organisations offering them high intrinsic network control and data security. However, 5G is still under development and is being gradually introduced in a continuous release process. This process lacks transparency regarding the performance of 5G in individual releases, complicating the successful adoption of 5G as an industrial communication. Additionally, the evaluation of 5G against the specified target performance is insufficient due to the impact of the environment and external interfering factors on 5G in the industrial environment. Therefore, this paper aims to develop a technical decision-support framework that takes a holistic approach to evaluate the practicality of 5G for intralogistics use cases by considering two fundamental stages. The first of these analyses technical parameters and characteristics of the use case to evaluate the theoretical feasibility of 5G. The second stage investigates the application's environment, which substantially impacts the practicality of 5G, for instance, the influence of surrounding materials. Finally, a case study validates the proposed framework by means of an autonomous mobile robot. As a result, the validation proves the proposed framework's applicability and shows the practicality of the autonomous mobile robot, when integrating it into a private 5G network testbed.
KW  - decision-support framework
KW  - 5G
KW  - intralogistics
KW  - use cases
KW  - non-public networks
KW  - private 5G networks
KW  - practicality
Y1  - 2023
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-48478
SN  - 2212-8271
SS  - 2212-8271
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2023.08.010
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2023.08.010
VL  - 120
IS  - 56th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CIRP CMS ‘23, South Africa
SP  - 51
EP  - 56
S1  - 6
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -