-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CFP] IEEE Communications Standards Magazine Special Issue on "Empowering Robotics With 6G: Connectivity, Intelligence, and Beyond” (Submission Deadline: 28 February 2025) Datum: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 12:11:15 +0000 Von: Aryan Kaushik Aryan.Kaushik@sussex.ac.uk An: Aryan Kaushik a.kaushik@mmu.ac.uk

Dear Colleagues,

*Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this Call for Papers*

We kindly invite your original research paper submissions to the *IEEE Communications Standards Magazine* *Special Issue on "**Empowering Robotics With 6G: Connectivity, Intelligence, and Beyond* https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-communications-standards-magazine/cfp/empowering-robotics-6g*”*. Manuscript Submission Deadline: *28 February 2025* Publication Date: *September 2025*

*Call for Papers:*

The evolution of mobile networks, particularly with 5G and beyond, aims to enhance robotics functionality through real-time control and multimodal data transfer, where low latency is crucial. Achieving interoperability among diverse communication technologies, such as 5G Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC), is essential for advancing robotics capabilities in sensing, perception, cognition, and actuation.

Recent advancements in 5G and the upcoming 6G technologies highlight the significant benefits that robotics, IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning can offer, particularly in improving efficiency, reducing emissions, and lowering costs across various industries. 6G introduces capabilities, such as High Reliability Low Latency Communication (HRLLC), massive communication, Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), AI-enhanced communication, ubiquitous connectivity, and immersive communication experiences. In addition to new communication-specific usage scenarios, such as Immersive Communications, ITU-R has also envisioned a number of beyond-communication capabilities for IMT-2030 systems that could significantly impact robotic systems and networks. In particular, ISAC and the integration of (native) AI across all layers of the communication ecosystem are expected to fundamentally change how robots operate in the future. ITU-R anticipates that future connected devices may become fully context-aware, enabling more intuitive and efficient interactions among humans, machines, and the environment. Autonomous networks may also be capable of self-monitoring, self-organizing, self-optimizing, and self-healing functions without human intervention. Furthermore, cobots are expected to play a major role in future automated industries.

On the other hand, ISAC in IMT-2030 will provision ubiquitous sensing, extending the IMT-2020’s massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) usage scenario and providing machines, robots, and swarms with new sensing-related abilities. The standardization of these capabilities is crucial to ensure interoperability and seamless integration across various robotic applications, thereby unlocking the full potential of the robotics industry.

This Special Issue (SI) aims to provide a compendium of technical papers and vision-setting articles from academia, industry, and standardization activities, focusing on major disruptive trends related to 6G empowering Robotics (6G Robo).

Topics of interest for this SI include, but are not limited to:

* Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G Robo. * THz and millimeter wave channelling for 6G Robo. * Development of PHY algorithms and protocol designs for 6G Robo. * New and enhanced 6G capabilities essential for robotic applications. * Teleoperated robotics and the role of 6G communication networks. * Convergence of robotics, AI, machine learning, and IoT with 6G technologies. * Ethical and privacy issues for AI models using data from robotic sensors and 6G. * Advanced connectivity solutions for enabling robotic systems. * Robotic connectivity, perception, and control enabled by 6G technology. * Transformative potential of 6G Robo ensuring safe robotic operations. * Efficient, low-emission, and cost-effective robotic applications powered by 6G Robo. * Mobile robotics and navigation over 6G technology. * Cognitive communication solutions in enabling adaptive and context-aware robotic systems through 6G. * Frameworks for shared control and task allocation in human-robot interactions. * Standardization efforts to align 6G technologies with existing robotic frameworks and protocols for enhanced collaboration.

We invite researchers, practitioners, industry experts, and standardization specialists to contribute to this Special Issue by submitting original research articles, reviews, and vision papers that address these themes and advance the understanding of 6G's role in empowering robotics and the route to standardization.

*Submission Guidelines:*

Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Paper Submission Guidelines https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-communications-standards-magazine/paper-submission-guidelines. All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline throughManuscript Central https://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/m-comstd. *Select the “6G Empowering Robotics” topic from the drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles.*

*Important Dates:* Manuscript Submission Deadline: 28 February 2025 Authors’ Revision Notification Date: 30 April 2025 Revised Manuscript Submission Deadline: 15 June 2025 Final Decision Notification Date: 30 June 2025 Camera-ready Files Due: 15 July 2025 Expected Publication Date: September 2025

*Guest Editors:* Mona Ghassemian, Huawei Technologies, UK Xueli An, Huawei Technologies, Germany Aryan Kaushik, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Mahdi Tavakoli, University of Alberta, Canada Douwe Dresscher, University of Twente, Netherlands Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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