controllers

Definition

The component that decides what commands to send so a system behaves as intended — joint torques for a robot arm, thrust for a drone, actions for a simulated agent. The term spans classical PID control and learned neural policies alike. In current agent architectures it usually marks the lower tier: a language model does high-level planning, and controllers turn those goals into actuator-level commands.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: LoopArena — Benchmarking the Model That Steers a Coding AgentLoopArena: Benchmarking Models as Runtime Controllers for Loop Engineering