Focus on human-machine collaboration
6G technology is centered around people and their communications and interactions with machines and virtual worlds. 6G-life will focus in particular on two application areas already being explored in numerous high-profile projects at TUM: Industry 4.0 and digital medicine. Both are key fields of interest of the Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM) at TUM, which will play an integral role in the 6G-life project.
The project will address four key topics: Latency (delay – how can we make communications faster?), resilience (How can we make communications more failsafe?), security (how can we protect privacy and defend against attacks?) and sustainability (how can we substantially reduce the high energy consumption of digital communications?). The requirements of 6G will involve technical challenges that can be solved only with new theoretical approaches. Basic research in such areas as information theory will therefore represent an a vital element of 6G-life.
