The use of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) has seen significant growth in the research community, industry, and
society. Many of these agents are equipped with communication systems that are
essential for completing certain tasks successfully. This has led to the
emergence of a new interdisciplinary field at the intersection of robotics and
communications, which has been further driven by the integration of UAVs into
5G and 6G communication networks. However, one of the main challenges in this
research area is how many researchers tend to oversimplify either the robotics
or the communications aspects, hindering the full potential of this new
interdisciplinary field. In this paper, we present some of the necessary
modeling tools for addressing these problems from both a robotics and
communications perspective, using the UAV communications relay as an example.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for presentation to the 2023
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) at Lazarski
University, Warsaw, Polan