Teleoperation of an Industrial Robot using Public Networks and 5G SA Campus Networks

The next generation of cellular mobile communication standard 5G is considered to have more stable and secure communication links, low latency and higher flexibility which can be enablers for various new scenarios and applications. Teleoperation is the field that can benefit greatly from 5G technology. Demanding and mission-critical use cases such as telesurgery have challenging requirements like low latency and high reliability of the communication channel, which can be possibly met by 5G in the future. This work presents a 5G architecture for the teleoperation of an industrial robot over long distance. For this purpose three Fraunhofer Institutes were connected over public internet and 5G campus networks. Furthermore, this work describes the latency performance of the investigated teleoperation use case. The measurements in the experiment are performed with two 5G standalone (SA) networks and an edge cloud.