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Sensor Input Adapter

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An acquisition component that captures raw input from a modality-specific source (camera, microphone, LiDAR, sensors, APIs, logs, email) at its native rate and format.

Responsibility. Acquires raw data from one input channel.

Also known as: Sensor acquisition, GPS receiver, Wheel encoder, LIDAR, Vision sensor, Microphone capture, Smartphone camera capture

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Performance efficiency (ISO/IEC 25010)

Sources

  1. Ch1.4: T. Nguyen, "Memory and Perception Systems," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 1.4. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  2. Ch5.6: T. Nguyen, "A* Search and Replaning," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 5.6. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  3. Ch7.5: T. Nguyen, "NeMo Curator, Riva Speech AI & Multimodal Integration," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 7.5. ISBN: 9798244538229.