RIS CUTTING EDGE FOURM
Towards World Model-Empowered Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Decision for Complex Unmanned Systems
世界模型驱动的复杂无人系统网络
Towards World Model-Empowered Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Decision for Complex Unmanned Systems
- RISTA CUTTING EDGE FORUM Season 5 Session 9
- Time：8pm-9pm, August 3rd, 2026
- Speaker guest：Prof.Yongpeng Wu
- Chair guest：Prof.Yunfeng Peng
Complex unmanned systems comprising satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), and quadruped robots are increasingly deployed to perform large-scale sensing and autonomous operations. We propose a world model-empowered sensing, communication, decision (SCD) integration framework for complex unmanned communication networks. The proposed architecture establishes a closed-loop system where a unified world model jointly optimizes time-sensitive sensing, wireless communication, and intelligent decision-making. To regulate sensing freshness and reduce redundant data generation, we propose a time-sensitive age of information (AoI)-driven sensing mechanism that dynamically schedules sensing updates based on task urgency and predictive uncertainty. Furthermore, a predictive world model is developed to jointly represent environmental dynamics, wireless channel evolution, and agent mobility within a hybrid deterministic-stochastic latent space. This enables proactive communication scheduling and decision evaluation via latent rollout. To support large-scale heterogeneous coordination, a multi-granularity knowledge graph is further designed to organize cross-population relationships among satellites, UAVs, UGVs, and ground agents. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed SCD framework outperforms conventional systems, highlighting the significant potential of world models for supporting unmanned systems.
Dr. Wu is currently a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is mainly engaged in research on secure, ultra-reliable and low latency communications. He has published more than 100 papers in IEEE journals, and many papers have been selected as ESI hot spots and highly cited papers，and received best paper awards of IEEE ICC. He has won honors and awards such as First Prize of Natural Science of China Institute of Communications (Ranked 1)，National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Fund, IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Research Scholar Award, Second prize for Huawei's Technology Achievements Transformation Award, Elsevier's Highly Cited Chinese Researchers, "Lifetime Scientific Influence List" of the top 2% of the world's top scientists. He is currently an IEEE Senior Member and an editor of IEEE Transaction on Information Theory/Wireless Communication，National Science Review and was editors of IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Communications Letters. As a Lead Guest Editor, he organized several special issues on IEEE JSAC, IEEE Wireless Communications and IEEE JSTSP. At the same time, he has served as chairman and member of the technical committees of internationally renowned conferences such as IEEE ICC, Globecom, and VTC for many times. Currently, he is the director of the China Institute of Communications, deputy leader of the IMT-2030 (6G) New Generation Multiple Access Technology Task Group, a specially appointed expert of the Shanghai 6G New Communications Expert Committee, and presides multiple projects over the National Natural Science Foundation, national key research and development sub-topics, and scientific research at Huawei, ZTE, China SatNet, etc.
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