The importance of ground Mobile Robots (MRs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) within the research community, industry, and society is growing fast. Many of these agents are nowadays equipped with communication systems that are, in some cases, essential to successfully achieve certain tasks. In this context, we have begun to witness the development of a new interdisciplinary research field at the intersection of robotics and communications. This research field has been boosted by the intention of integrating UAVs within the 5G and 6G communication networks. This research will undoubtedly lead to many important applications in the near future. Nevertheless, one of the main obstacles to the development of this research area is that most researchers address these problems by oversimplifying either the robotics or the communications aspect. This impedes the ability of reaching the full potential of this new interdisciplinary research area. In this tutorial, we present some of the modelling tools necessary to address problems involving both robotics and communication from an interdisciplinary perspective. As an illustrative example of such problems, we focus in this tutorial on the issue of communication-aware trajectory planning.

翻译：地面移动机器人（MRs）和无人驾驶飞行器（UAVs）在研究界、工业界及社会中的重要性正迅速增长。如今，许多此类智能体配备了通信系统，在某些情况下，这些系统对于成功完成特定任务至关重要。在此背景下，我们开始见证一个位于机器人技术与通信交叉领域的新型跨学科研究方向的发展。该研究方向因将无人机集成到5G和6G通信网络的需求而得到推动。毫无疑问，这一研究将在不久的将来催生许多重要应用。然而，该领域发展的主要障碍之一是，大多数研究人员在解决这些问题时，要么过度简化机器人技术方面，要么过度简化通信方面。这阻碍了充分挖掘这一新型跨学科研究领域潜力的能力。在本教程中，我们介绍了一些必要的建模工具，用于从跨学科视角处理涉及机器人技术与通信的问题。作为此类问题的说明性示例，本教程聚焦于通信感知轨迹规划问题。