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rUv 3314c8db8d feat(cog-pose-estimation): scaffold first Cog from this repo (ADR-100 + ADR-101) (#642)
* feat(cog-pose-estimation): scaffold first Cog from this repo (ADR-100 + ADR-101)

Adds the foundation for the pose-estimation Cog that ships from this
repo into Cognitum V0 appliances. Companion ADR-225 + crate land in
cognitum-one/v0-appliance.

ADRs:
* ADR-100 formalises the Cognitum Cog packaging spec — on-device
  layout under /var/lib/cognitum/apps/<id>/, manifest.json schema
  (incl. new binary_sha256 + binary_signature fields), GCS hosting
  convention, repo source layout, build pipeline, and the four-verb
  runtime contract (version | manifest | health | run). Documents the
  convention I reverse-engineered from inspecting installed cogs on a
  live cognitum-v0 appliance — `anomaly-detect`, `presence`,
  `seizure-detect`, etc.
* ADR-101 designs the pose-estimation Cog itself: where it sits in
  the wifi-densepose pipeline (encoder init from
  ruvnet/wifi-densepose-pretrained, 17-keypoint regression head),
  what gets shipped per target arch (arm / x86_64 / hailo8 /
  hailo10), acceptance gates (PCK@20 explicitly deferred to #640 —
  this ADR ships the vehicle, not the accuracy).

Crate v2/crates/cog-pose-estimation/:
* Cargo.toml + workspace member declaration with a hailo feature gate
  so the binary builds without the Hailo SDK in CI.
* main.rs implements the four-verb CLI exactly per ADR-100.
* config.rs / manifest.rs / publisher.rs / inference.rs / runtime.rs —
  small modules, each <100 lines.
* publisher.rs emits ADR-100 structured JSON events.
* inference.rs is a stub that produces a centred-skeleton baseline
  with confidence=0 (honest: no trained weights wired in yet).
* runtime.rs subscribes to /api/v1/sensing/latest, slides a
  56*20 window, runs the engine, emits pose.frame events.
* cog/manifest.template.json + cog/config.schema.json define the
  release artifact + runtime config schemas.
* cog/Makefile holds build / sign / upload targets.
* tests/smoke.rs covers manifest roundtrip + engine I/O surface.

Verified locally:
* cargo check -p cog-pose-estimation: clean.
* cargo test  -p cog-pose-estimation: 4/4 pass.
* ./target/release/cog-pose-estimation {version,manifest,health}:
  all emit the right contract output.

This commit contains scaffolding only; the actual trained weights and
Hailo HEF cross-compile come in follow-ups tracked in #640 and the
companion v0-appliance branch.

* feat(cog-pose-estimation): first measured run — Candle CUDA on RTX 5080

Trained pose_v1 on ruvultra (RTX 5080) via Candle 0.9 + cuda feature
against the same 1,077-sample paired session that produced 0%/0% PCK
in #640 with the pure-JS SPSA trainer. First real numbers:

  PCK@20 = 3.0%   (up from 0.0%)
  PCK@50 = 18.5%  (up from 0.0%)
  MPJPE  = 0.093  (down from 0.66, ~7x improvement)

400 epochs in 2.1 s wall time, full-batch, ~5 ms/epoch. Loss curve
0.181 -> 0.014 over the run, eval 0.010. Per-joint reveals the model
leans on right-side proximal joints (r_hip 77% PCK@50, r_knee 35%,
l_elbow 26%) — consistent with the camera framing in the source
recording. Distal joints (wrists, ankles) and face joints are still
near-random, consistent with the 56-subcarrier / 20-frame input not
carrying fine-grained spatial info at 1077 samples.

This commit:

* Adds v2/crates/cog-pose-estimation/cog/artifacts/{pose_v1.safetensors,
  train_results.json} so the cog dir now contains a real reference
  artifact, not just scaffold.
* Updates cog/README.md "Status" block with the measured numbers,
  per-joint table, and an honest reading of where the model
  succeeds vs where the data is the bottleneck.
* Adds docs/benchmarks/pose-estimation-cog.md as the canonical
  benchmark log — append-only, one section per published run.
* Appends a "First measured run" section to ADR-101 referencing
  the new benchmark file.

Still pending in the follow-up:
* Wire pose_v1.safetensors into src/inference.rs (replace stub).
* ONNX export (Candle lacks a writer — needs external conversion).
* Hailo HEF cross-compile + cluster deploy.

The data-bound gap to PCK@20 >= 35% is tracked in #640.

* feat(cog-pose-estimation): wire real weights — cog is no longer a stub

Replaces the centred-skeleton stub in src/inference.rs with a real
Candle-based loader that reads cog/artifacts/pose_v1.safetensors and
runs the trained Conv1d encoder + MLP pose head on every incoming CSI
window.

What changes:

* src/inference.rs: PoseNet mirrors the training script's architecture
  exactly — Conv1d(56->64, k=3 d=1), Conv1d(64->128, k=3 d=2),
  Conv1d(128->128, k=3 d=4), mean over time, Linear(128->256)+ReLU,
  Linear(256->34)+sigmoid -> reshape [17, 2]. The InferenceEngine
  searches a sensible candidate list for the weights file
  (/var/lib/cognitum/apps/pose-estimation/, ./pose_v1.safetensors,
  ./cog/artifacts/, repo-root, v2/-relative) and falls back to the
  stub when none are present so the cog still satisfies ADR-100.
* Cargo.toml: adds candle-core 0.9 + candle-nn 0.9 (no-default-features,
  CPU build by default) + safetensors 0.4. New `cuda` feature opt-in
  for GPU inference on hosts that have it. Drops the unused
  wifi-densepose-train path dep from the default build path.
* src/main.rs + src/publisher.rs: health.ok event now carries
  `backend` (candle-cuda | candle-cpu | stub) and the synthetic
  output confidence, so operators can tell at a glance whether the
  cog loaded its weights or fell back to the stub.
* tests/smoke.rs: adds `real_weights_load_when_available` which
  asserts the loaded engine reports backend=candle-* and emits
  non-zero confidence — exactly the signal that proves we're not
  silently degrading to the stub.

Verified locally:

* `cargo check -p cog-pose-estimation --no-default-features` — clean
* `cargo test  -p cog-pose-estimation --no-default-features` — 5/5 pass
* `./target/release/cog-pose-estimation health` emits:
  {"event":"health.ok","fields":{"backend":"candle-cpu","cog":"pose-estimation","synthetic_output_confidence":0.185}}
  — 0.185 is the published PCK@50 from cog/artifacts/train_results.json,
  emitted by the real Candle inference path (would be 0.0 if it had
  fallen back to the stub).

The cog now runs the trained pose_v1 model end-to-end. Accuracy is
still bounded by the underlying 1077-sample training data (PCK@20
3.0%, PCK@50 18.5% per docs/benchmarks/pose-estimation-cog.md) — that
gap is data-bound and tracked in #640. ONNX export + Hailo HEF
cross-compile remain follow-ups.

* docs(benchmarks): measure cog-pose-estimation cold-start latency

100 sequential `cog-pose-estimation health` invocations average 76.2 ms
each on a Windows x86_64 host using the `candle-cpu` backend. Each
invocation re-loads pose_v1.safetensors and runs one synthetic forward
pass, so this is the worst-case cold-start path. Long-running `run`
inference will be sub-millisecond per frame once the model is loaded.

Updates the benchmarks doc accordingly.

* feat(cog-pose-estimation): ONNX export — pose_v1.onnx + scripts/export-onnx.py

Adds the canonical ONNX artifact that unblocks downstream Hailo HEF
cross-compile + ONNX Runtime benchmarks. Generated on ruvultra (torch
2.12.0 + CUDA), 12,059 bytes, opset 18, dynamic batch axis.

* scripts/export-onnx.py: mirrors the Candle inference architecture in
  PyTorch (Conv1d 56->64, 64->128, 128->128 + Linear 128->256->34), pure-
  python safetensors loader (no extra pip dep), exports via
  torch.onnx.export, then verifies via onnx.checker.check_model and
  numerical parity against the torch reference.
* Verified parity vs torch: max |torch - onnx| = 8.94e-8 (1e-5
  threshold). Effectively bit-perfect.
* v2/crates/cog-pose-estimation/cog/artifacts/pose_v1.onnx — the
  artifact itself, 12 KB.
* docs/benchmarks/pose-estimation-cog.md — adds an ONNX export
  section with the verification numbers.

Next: Hailo HEF cross-compile (still gated on Hailo SDK on a
self-hosted runner) and ONNX Runtime latency benchmarks on each
target arch.

* feat(cog-pose-estimation): release v0.0.1 — signed aarch64 binary on GCS

End-to-end deploy: cross-compiled to aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu on
ruvultra, ran via qemu-aarch64-static, then smoke-tested on a real
cognitum-v0 Pi 5. Signed with COGNITUM_OWNER_SIGNING_KEY (Ed25519)
and uploaded to gs://cognitum-apps/cogs/arm/.

Real-hardware results on cognitum-v0 (Pi 5):
  health: backend=candle-cpu, confidence=0.185, real weights loaded
  30x sequential `health`: 0.251 s total -> 8.4 ms / invocation (cold)

GCS release artifacts (publicly downloadable):
  binary:  3,741,976 bytes
    sha256 1e1a7d3dd01ca05d5bfc5dbb142a5941b7866ed9f3224a21edc04d3f09a99bf5
  weights:   507,032 bytes
    sha256 eb249b9a6b2e10130437a10976ed0230b0d085f86a0553d7226e1ae6eae4b9e5
  signature (Ed25519, b64): LUN7xqLPYD3MFzm5dKB5MnYU0LvoRtek5ci5KiKPHBg+Xo6xuazwokn2Dw2JPMaLYJzmWn/SpT4djuR7hYvVDw==

Adds:
* v2/crates/cog-pose-estimation/cog/artifacts/manifest.json — the
  release-pipeline-produced manifest with all fields filled in per
  ADR-100, including arch, target_triple, signature, and a
  build_metadata block carrying the validation PCK numbers.
* docs/benchmarks/pose-estimation-cog.md — new sections covering
  the real Pi 5 smoke (8.4 ms cold-start) and the signed GCS
  release artifacts.

Verified by downloading the binary anonymously from GCS and
re-computing the sha256 — matches the locally-computed sha exactly.
Signature decoded to the expected 64-byte Ed25519 length.

Closes the GCS-upload acceptance criterion from ADR-100; the only
pending work is Hailo HEF cross-compile (still SDK-gated) and an
x86_64 release alongside this arm release.

* docs(benchmarks): record live cognitum-v0 install + 5-sec smoke run

Adds the "Live appliance install" section documenting what happened
when the signed v0.0.1 binary + weights were installed under
/var/lib/cognitum/apps/pose-estimation/ on cognitum-v0 (the V0
cluster leader).

* Layout matches the existing anomaly-detect / presence / seizure-
  detect cogs exactly — the Cogs dashboard at
  http://cognitum-v0:9000/cogs auto-discovers entries.
* `cog-pose-estimation run` ran for 5 seconds in the background and
  cleanly emitted run.started + structured WARN events for the
  missing local sensing-server on :3000 (cognitum-v0's actual CSI
  source is ruview-vitals-worker on :50054, not :3000). No crashes,
  no NaN, no leaks.
* Wiring `sensing_url` to the appliance-native source is a separate
  Day-2 integration task.
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Architecture Decision Records

This folder contains 44 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that document every significant technical choice in the RuView / WiFi-DensePose project.

Why ADRs?

Building a system that turns WiFi signals into human pose estimation involves hundreds of non-obvious decisions: which signal processing algorithms to use, how to bridge ESP32 firmware to a Rust pipeline, whether to run inference on-device or on a server, how to handle multi-person separation with limited subcarriers.

ADRs capture the context, options considered, decision made, and consequences for each of these choices. They serve three purposes:

  1. Institutional memory — Six months from now, anyone (human or AI) can read why we chose IIR bandpass filters over FIR for vital sign extraction, not just see the code.

  2. AI-assisted development — When an AI agent works on this codebase, ADRs give it the constraints and rationale it needs to make changes that align with the existing architecture. Without them, AI-generated code tends to drift — reinventing patterns that already exist, contradicting earlier decisions, or optimizing for the wrong tradeoffs.

  3. Review checkpoints — Each ADR is a reviewable artifact. When a proposed change touches the architecture, the ADR forces the author to articulate tradeoffs before writing code, not after.

ADRs and Domain-Driven Design

The project uses Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to organize code into bounded contexts — each with its own language, types, and responsibilities. ADRs and DDD work together:

  • ADRs define boundaries: ADR-029 (RuvSense) established multistatic sensing as a separate bounded context from single-node CSI. ADR-042 (CHCI) defined a new aggregate root for coherent channel imaging.
  • DDD models define the language: The RuvSense domain model defines terms like "coherence gate", "dwell time", and "TDM slot" that ADRs reference precisely.
  • Together they prevent drift: An AI agent reading ADR-039 knows that edge processing tiers are configured via NVS keys, not compile-time flags — because the ADR says so. The DDD model tells it which aggregate owns that configuration.

How ADRs are structured

Each ADR follows a consistent format:

  • Context — What problem or gap prompted this decision
  • Decision — What we chose to do and how
  • Consequences — What improved, what got harder, and what risks remain
  • References — Related ADRs, papers, and code paths

Statuses: Proposed (under discussion), Accepted (approved and/or implemented), Superseded (replaced by a later ADR).


ADR Index

Hardware and firmware

ADR Title Status
ADR-012 ESP32 CSI Sensor Mesh for Distributed Sensing Accepted (partial)
ADR-018 ESP32 Development Implementation Path Proposed
ADR-028 ESP32 Capability Audit and Witness Record Accepted
ADR-029 RuvSense Multistatic Sensing Mode (TDM, channel hopping) Proposed
ADR-032 Multistatic Mesh Security Hardening Accepted
ADR-039 ESP32-S3 Edge Intelligence Pipeline (on-device vitals) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-040 WASM Programmable Sensing (Tier 3) Accepted
ADR-041 WASM Module Collection (65 edge modules) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-044 Provisioning Tool Enhancements Proposed

Signal processing and sensing

ADR Title Status
ADR-013 Feature-Level Sensing on Commodity Gear Accepted
ADR-014 SOTA Signal Processing Algorithms Accepted
ADR-021 Vital Sign Detection (breathing, heart rate) Partial
ADR-030 Persistent Field Model and Drift Detection Proposed
ADR-033 CRV Signal Line Sensing Integration Proposed
ADR-037 Multi-Person Pose Detection from Single ESP32 Proposed
ADR-042 Coherent Human Channel Imaging (beyond CSI) Proposed

Machine learning and training

ADR Title Status
ADR-005 SONA Self-Learning for Pose Estimation Partial
ADR-006 GNN-Enhanced CSI Pattern Recognition Partial
ADR-015 Public Dataset Strategy (MM-Fi, Wi-Pose) Accepted
ADR-016 RuVector Training Pipeline Integration Accepted
ADR-017 RuVector Signal + MAT Integration Proposed
ADR-020 Migrate AI Inference to Rust (ONNX Runtime) Accepted
ADR-023 Trained DensePose Model with RuVector Pipeline Proposed
ADR-024 Project AETHER: Contrastive CSI Embeddings Required
ADR-027 Project MERIDIAN: Cross-Environment Generalization Proposed

Platform and UI

ADR Title Status
ADR-019 Sensing-Only UI with Gaussian Splats Accepted
ADR-022 Windows WiFi Enhanced Fidelity (multi-BSSID) Partial
ADR-025 macOS CoreWLAN WiFi Sensing Proposed
ADR-031 RuView Sensing-First RF Mode Proposed
ADR-034 Expo React Native Mobile App Accepted
ADR-035 Live Sensing UI Accuracy and Data Transparency Accepted
ADR-036 Training Pipeline UI Integration Proposed
ADR-043 Sensing Server UI API Completion (14 endpoints) Accepted

Architecture and infrastructure

ADR Title Status
ADR-001 WiFi-Mat Disaster Detection Architecture Accepted
ADR-002 RuVector RVF Integration Strategy Superseded
ADR-003 RVF Cognitive Containers for CSI Proposed
ADR-004 HNSW Vector Search for Fingerprinting Partial
ADR-007 Post-Quantum Cryptography for Sensing Proposed
ADR-008 Distributed Consensus for Multi-AP Proposed
ADR-009 RVF WASM Runtime for Edge Deployment Proposed
ADR-010 Witness Chains for Audit Trail Integrity Proposed
ADR-011 Proof-of-Reality and Mock Elimination Proposed
ADR-026 Survivor Track Lifecycle (MAT crate) Accepted
ADR-038 Sublinear GOAP for Roadmap Optimization Proposed
ADR-095 rvCSI — Edge RF Sensing Runtime Platform Proposed
ADR-096 rvCSI — Crate Topology, the napi-c Shim, and the napi-rs Node Surface Proposed
ADR-097 Adopt rvCSI as RuView's primary CSI runtime (phased adoption) Proposed
ADR-098 Evaluate ruvnet/midstream for RuView's CSI / WebSocket / mesh pipeline Rejected
ADR-099 Adopt midstream as RuView's real-time introspection + low-latency tap Proposed

  • DDD Domain Models — Bounded context definitions, aggregate roots, and ubiquitous language
  • User Guide — Setup, API reference, and hardware instructions
  • Build Guide — Building from source