Efficient Coordination with the System-Level Shared State: An Embodied-AI Native Modular Framework
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This work addresses critical challenges in deployed Embodied AI systems—namely interface drift, inter-module interference, and fragile recovery—stemming from implicit shared state and ambiguous feedback semantics. To mitigate these issues, the authors propose ANCHOR, a novel framework that decouples shared-state contracts from communication mechanisms for the first time. ANCHOR enforces explicit module decoupling through standardized state contracts and a feedback-oriented, many-to-many distribution bus. It further incorporates evolvable specification logging and streaming state management to enable automatic recovery after failures and controlled degradation under load. The framework’s end-to-end closed-loop feasibility is validated in a de-identified workflow, demonstrating quantified latency distributions and automatic stream recovery following shared memory loss.
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📝 Abstract
As Embodied AI systems move from research prototypes to real world deployments, they tend to evolve rapidly while remaining reliable under workload changes and partial failures. In practice, many deployments are only partially decoupled: middleware moves messages, but shared context and feedback semantics are implicit, causing interface drift, cross-module interference, and brittle recovery at scale. We present ANCHOR, a modular framework that makes decoupling and robustness explicit system-level primitives. ANCHOR separates (i) Canonical Records, an evolvable contract for the standardized shared state, from (ii) a communication bus for many-to-many dissemination and feedback-oriented coordination, forming an inspectable end-to-end loop. We validate closed-loop feasibility on a de-identified workflow instantiation, characterize latency distributions under varying payload sizes and publish rates, and demonstrate automatic stream resumption after hard crashes and restarts even with shared-memory loss. Overall, ANCHOR turns ad-hoc integration glue into explicit contracts, enabling controlled degradation under load and self-healing recovery for scalable deployment of closed-loop AI systems.
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Embodied AI
system-level shared state
modular framework
decoupling
robustness
Innovation
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modular framework
shared state
canonical records
feedback-oriented coordination
self-healing recovery
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