Robotics and Communications for the FCC

Wednesday 16 Sept 2026, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Zurich

General Discussion

• The communications hardware not fully defined
  
  • Leaky feeder still baseline
  • Wifi in the Alcoves
• Salvatore is looking into wireless radiation tolerant ATS
• All fibres will go through a single point (PA)
• Big question is the reliability requirements of the network and if redundancy is needed?
• FCC will be the owner of the networks.

 

Ask from Rodrigo:

• Reliability requirements for the network?
  • Based on functional safety for the robots.
  • Perhaps this requirement should come from the safety team?
• How many robots operating per cell? 
• Any info on the comms failures and network switching.
  • MIRA robot had collected some data on this in SPS.

 

Robotic Tasks for Communications

• Comms surveys (already captured)
• Potentially some installation tasks.
• Rodrigo will share our current tasks with his team for feedback.

 

Action Points

• Robotics team to work with safety to come up with reliability requirements
• Robotics team to provide estimate of robots per cell
• Robotics team to share existing tasks
  • Rodrigo to share this with team for feedback.
• Robotics to share data on the SPS comms survey.