The use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has seen significant growth in the research community, industry, and society. Many of these agents are equipped with communication systems that are essential for completing certain tasks successfully. This has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field at the intersection of robotics and communications, which has been further driven by the integration of UAVs into 5G and 6G communication networks. However, one of the main challenges in this research area is how many researchers tend to oversimplify either the robotics or the communications aspects, hindering the full potential of this new interdisciplinary field. In this paper, we present some of the necessary modeling tools for addressing these problems from both a robotics and communications perspective, using the UAV communications relay as an example.

翻译：无人地面车辆（UGV）与无人航空器（UAV）在研究界、工业界及社会中的应用显著增长。其中许多运载工具配备通信系统，这些系统对于成功完成特定任务至关重要。这催生了机器人学与通信学交叉的全新跨学科领域，而UAV融入5G与6G通信网络进一步推动了该领域发展。然而，该研究领域的主要挑战之一在于：许多研究者常过度简化机器人学或通信学中的某一侧面，限制了这一新兴交叉领域的潜在发展空间。本文以UAV通信中继为例，从机器人学与通信学的双重视角，阐述了应对这些挑战所必需的部分建模工具。