One of the 12 Robonix system components. Provides a single monotonic time source plus PTP / IEEE-1588 alignment between hardware (lidar, camera, IMU, chassis odometry) and the runtime.
Status — v0.1 stub. Not yet implemented.
For now, components read system wall time / per-sensor timestamps directly. Scene / mapping fuse multimodal data on their own. Chronos will absorb that responsibility in v0.2.
When implemented, Chronos will:
- expose a single
time/nowcapability returning a monotonic, machine- global time stamp consistent with sensor headers, - run a PTP master/slave loop (1588v2) to discipline NIC clocks across the body's compute units,
- emit drift / sync-quality metrics to vitals.