Stop to Decide: Latency-Aware Proprioceptive Navigation Primitives for Mapping-Free Quadruped Inspection

Compute-constrained quadrupeds often run their navigation loop far below the controller's design rate: sharing the onboard Jetson Orin with the vision pipeline slows our stair loop to about 15 Hz. This latency breaks a standard proprioceptive pattern: declaring stair-summit arrival from the body-pit...