AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

arXiv:2604.24086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been demonstrated possessing strong zero-shot generalization for robot control, their massive parameter sizes typically necessitate cloud-based deployment. However, cloud deployment introduces network jitter and inference latency, which can induce severe spatiotemporal misalignment in mobile navigation under continuous displacement, so that the stale intents expressed in past ego frames may become sp