Delay‐Constrained Teleoperation Task Scheduling and Assignment

In this chapter, the authors formulate and solve the problem of joint prioritized scheduling and assignment of delay‐constrained teleoperation tasks to human operators (HOs) so as to minimize the average weighted task completion time, maximum tardiness, and average operational expenditures per task. They elaborate on the role of fiber‐wireless (FiWi)‐enhanced networks as the underlying communications infrastructure for enabling emerging delay‐sensitive Tactile Internet applications. The authors define the problem of joint prioritized scheduling and assignment of delay‐constrained teleoperation tasks onto available skilled HOs. They develop their analytical framework to estimate the end‐to‐end packet delay of both local and nonlocal teleoperation over FiWi‐enhanced networks. The authors examine the proposed CAPSTA algorithm. Specifically, the proposed CAPSTA algorithm achieves a 15–27% reduction of average weighted task completion time and a 49–56% reduction of maximum tardiness.