DAG-Based QoS-Aware Dynamic Task Placement for Networked Multi-Stage Control Pipelines

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Main Authors: Tran, Thien, Kua, Jonathan, Hoang, Thuong, Tran, Minh, Ding, Yuemin, Jin, Jiong
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author Tran, Thien
Kua, Jonathan
Hoang, Thuong
Tran, Minh
Ding, Yuemin
Jin, Jiong
author_facet Tran, Thien
Kua, Jonathan
Hoang, Thuong
Tran, Minh
Ding, Yuemin
Jin, Jiong
contents Current Physical AI (PAI) relies heavily on closed-loop visual-servoing pipelines, whose perception and planning stages may become computationally intensive onboard due to complex models embedded on robots. In practice, offloading the perception task to on-site edges statically is inappropriate for latency-sensitive, precise industrial settings over a standardized industrial network. This emphasizes the importance of Control-Communication-Computing (3C) co-design in industrial automation: monolithic local execution saturates AI-accelerated machine and robot hardware, while static edge offloading exposes the control loop to network jitter. Existing adaptive task placement (ATP) controllers can partially address the gap by relocating a single pipeline stage on binary threshold rules, without a multi-stage model and an explicit cost on placement switching. In this Work-in-Progress (WiP) paper, we propose a directed acyclic graph (DAG) based quality-of-service (QoS)-aware dynamic task placement (DTP) framework for sensing-perception-planning-control pipelines in networked robotics. This pipeline is formalized as a DAG with task-level and node-level attributes for compute cost, communication delay, and feasible placement sets; over a small interpretable candidate set (fully local, static offload, hybrid), a window-based cost function combines tail end-to-end latency, deadline violation rate, hardware utilization, and a Hamming-distance switching penalty, and a DTP algorithm with hysteresis and a minimum dwell-time bounds placement chatter. Our WiP paper presents the theoretical framework, a structured qualitative analysis, and a two-phase simulation plus hardware-in-the-loop validation roadmap.
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spellingShingle DAG-Based QoS-Aware Dynamic Task Placement for Networked Multi-Stage Control Pipelines
Tran, Thien
Kua, Jonathan
Hoang, Thuong
Tran, Minh
Ding, Yuemin
Jin, Jiong
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Multiagent Systems
Robotics
Systems and Control
Current Physical AI (PAI) relies heavily on closed-loop visual-servoing pipelines, whose perception and planning stages may become computationally intensive onboard due to complex models embedded on robots. In practice, offloading the perception task to on-site edges statically is inappropriate for latency-sensitive, precise industrial settings over a standardized industrial network. This emphasizes the importance of Control-Communication-Computing (3C) co-design in industrial automation: monolithic local execution saturates AI-accelerated machine and robot hardware, while static edge offloading exposes the control loop to network jitter. Existing adaptive task placement (ATP) controllers can partially address the gap by relocating a single pipeline stage on binary threshold rules, without a multi-stage model and an explicit cost on placement switching. In this Work-in-Progress (WiP) paper, we propose a directed acyclic graph (DAG) based quality-of-service (QoS)-aware dynamic task placement (DTP) framework for sensing-perception-planning-control pipelines in networked robotics. This pipeline is formalized as a DAG with task-level and node-level attributes for compute cost, communication delay, and feasible placement sets; over a small interpretable candidate set (fully local, static offload, hybrid), a window-based cost function combines tail end-to-end latency, deadline violation rate, hardware utilization, and a Hamming-distance switching penalty, and a DTP algorithm with hysteresis and a minimum dwell-time bounds placement chatter. Our WiP paper presents the theoretical framework, a structured qualitative analysis, and a two-phase simulation plus hardware-in-the-loop validation roadmap.
title DAG-Based QoS-Aware Dynamic Task Placement for Networked Multi-Stage Control Pipelines
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Multiagent Systems
Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19887