arXiv:2509.06119cs.ROcs.SY2025-09被引 1

提出混合协议,让机器人任务通信更准时可靠

A Hybrid TDMA/CSMA Protocol for Time-Sensitive Traffic in Robot Applications

  • 结合时分+随机接入,用精准时间同步保障关键指令按时送达
  • 实测延迟丢包率降93%,轨迹误差最多减少90%
  • 适合高密度机器人场景,兼顾实时性与非关键流量

近年来,制造业、医疗及自动驾驶等机器人应用对实时控制的需求日益增长,任务关键型指令必须在严格时限内送达,否则将影响系统性能甚至引发失控。本文基于真实软件定义无线电平台发现,当前广泛使用的CSMA协议在高负载下因冲突与延迟导致关键数据无法按时到达。为此,提出一种兼容IEEE 802.11的混合TDMA/CSMA协议,融合时分调度的确定性与随机接入的灵活性:通过亚微秒级PTP时间同步实现精确帧时序,采用三阶段超帧结构动态分配时隙,并引入信标-NAV保护机制提前预留关键通信通道。在实时SDR测试平台和ROS仿真中验证,该协议相较传统CSMA,任务截止期限丢失率降低93%;在高速路径跟踪仿真中,轨迹均方根误差最高减少90%,同时非关键流量吞吐量波动控制在±2%以内。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent progress in robotics has underscored the demand for real-time control in applications such as manufacturing, healthcare, and autonomous systems, where the timely delivery of mission-critical commands under heterogeneous robotic traffic is paramount for operational efficacy and safety. In these scenarios, mission-critical traffic follows a strict deadline-constrained communication pattern: commands must arrive within defined QoS deadlines, otherwise late arrivals can degrade performance or destabilize control loops.In this work, we demonstrate on a real-time SDR platform that CSMA, widely adopted in robotic communications,suffers severe degradation under high robot traffic loads, with contention-induced collisions and delays disrupting the on-time arrival of mission-critical packets. To address this problem, we propose an IEEE 802.11-compatible hybrid TDMA/CSMA protocol that combines TDMA's deterministic slot scheduling with CSMA's adaptability for heterogeneous robot traffic.The protocol achieves collision-free, low-latency mission-critical command delivery and IEEE 802.11 compatibility through the synergistic integration of sub-microsecond PTP-based slot synchronization-essential for establishing precise timing for TDMA, a three-session superframe with dynamic TDMA allocation for structured and adaptable traffic management,and beacon-NAV protection to preemptively secure these critical communication sessions from interference. Emulation experiments on real-time SDR testbed and Robot Operating System (ROS) simulation show that the proposed protocol reduces missed-deadline errors by 93% compared to the CSMA baseline. In high-speed robot path-tracking ROS simulations, the protocol lowers Root Mean Square (RMS) trajectory error by up to 90% compared with a CSMA baseline, all while maintaining throughput for non-critical traffic within +-2%.

机器人通信实时传输混合协议

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