Latency Line

Get a physical action through the pipeline before its deadline.

Choose speed and quality for sensing, planning, and the link. Dispatch only when the action meets its deadline.

How to play

Choose quick, balanced, or careful work at three stages of a sense–plan–act cycle. The strip plots estimated end-to-end latency. Dispatch only when the result can meet both the deadline and the task’s minimum quality. Milliseconds and quality scores are toy values chosen for the game.

The systems concept

For a physical system, correctness includes when a command reaches the actuator. More perception or planning can improve a proposal, but the added time can make the command stale. The full path from sensing through control consumes the deadline.

Explore Volume IV: Physical AI or return to the playground.