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Time-Sensitive Networking for Deterministic Real-Time Industrial Control

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TSN uses a global time reference and schedules critical data to traverse the network at precise intervals, achieving end-to-end latency in the microsecond range, which is essential for synchronized motion control.

Why this is interesting

You press a button to stop a robotic arm, and it should stop instantly. But what if the network message carrying the 'stop' command gets delayed by a few milliseconds? How do we guarantee it arrives on time? Time-Sensitive Networking is the answer.