5G Smart Manufacturing Testbed Conducted by Rutgers University

With the support from Siemens through a research project (PI: Y. Guo, Co-PIs: Cuitino, and Seskar, Zou), the COSMOS team in collaboration with Siemens and Rutgers University recently deployed an "Industry 4.0/5G+" sandbox extension focused on the evaluation of low-latency feedback control scenarios which arise in industrial automation and smart manufacturing. As shown in the figure, one large programmable software-defined COSMOS radio node sector and a pair of small nodes were deployed in the New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Institute at Rutgers. The objective of this testbed is to work with industry partners on the design and development of advanced manufacturing techniques that require low latency and high-reliability communications integrated with edge computing. The overall goal is to use emerging wireless and edge cloud capabilities to enable speed and flexibility in terms of manufacturing floor reconfigurability.