Demonstration of a Continuously Updated, Radio-Compatible Digital Twin for Robotic Integrated Sensing and Communications
Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is essential for future 6 G, bridging physical and digital worlds by enabling wireless systems to sense and respond to their environment. Digital twins (DTs) enhance ISAC by providing real-time, data-driven models for applications like localization and autonomous navigation. However, existing DT frameworks lack real-time modeling and multimodal sensing, limiting their use for high-resolution ISAC. This demo paper extends our recently proposed real-time DT framework for indoor ISACenabled robotics and introduces an LLM-driven speech interface for control and planning, a continuous 3D reconstruction scheme using RGB-D data, and a novel ray tracing approach for wireless channel modeling from point clouds. These innovations address key limitations, supporting advanced ISAC applications and immersive human-computer interaction.
Authors
- Holger Boche (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8375-8946)
- Miguel Bordallo López (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5707-9085)
- Ullrich J. Mönich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2390-7524)
- Janne Mustaniemi
- Vlad C. Andrei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5443-0100)
- Constantino Álvarez Casado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3052-4759)
- Praneeth Susarla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6707-7684)
- Niklas Vaara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9207-4294)
- Aladin Djuhera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1641-8801)
- Xinyang Li
Institutions
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- University of Oulu (FI)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-01-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jcs64661.2025.10880640
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Robotics and Automated Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.64