Error detection and correction in high-performance wireless for industrial control

Abstract: With Industry 4.0 on the rise, more sensors and actuators are being introduced to monitor and control physical processes. The increased number of nodes raise the cost of installing and maintaining wired connections, making wireless solutions at­tractive. However, the most critical applications have requirements too stringent for the currently available wireless standards. One of the main bottlenecks of contem­porary networks is communication latency, which is several orders of magnitude away from the requirements. To meet these requirements, a novel wireless protocol called WirelessHP has been created. It features custom-made PHY developed using Model-Based Software­Defined radio. This thesis is a continuation of the WirelessHP project, specifically addressing the network's reliability. The work consists of updating the baseband to evaluate different coding schemes and modulation methods, identifying and solv­ing issues in the hardware implementation, and performing experiments to measure the reliability.