What it is
Latency includes sensor capture, preprocessing, inference, planning, communication, and actuator response.
Why it matters
Physical systems can become unsafe or ineffective when decisions arrive late.
How not to overread it
Average latency is not enough; tails and jitter matter.
Related edges
Onboard compute
Real-time operation
Tail latency and jitter matter.
Control stack
Control loop
Slow commands can be wrong even if semantically correct.