Adaptive Cooking: Sensor Feedback vs Fixed Timer

Batch control

Batch #0 — press Next batch to start cooking.

Fixed-timer duration 5.2 s

Fixed timer — blind

Status

Idle

Internal temp

–

Fixed-timer consistency

Under

Perfect

Over

Sensor feedback — adaptive

Status

Idle

Internal temp

–

Sensor-feedback consistency

Under

Perfect

Over

Fixed timer Sensor feedback Target ±tol

How it works

Every batch starts from a randomized internal temperature (fridge-cold to room-warm) and a randomized piece size — real ingredients are never identical. Both robots cook the exact same batch side by side.

The fixed-timer robot always runs its heater for the same programmed duration, then stops — it has no idea what the food's actual internal temperature is. The sensor-feedback robot continuously reads a probe pushed into the food and keeps heating until the reading crosses the target doneness temperature, then stops immediately, whatever the starting conditions were.

Because heating rate depends on size and starting temperature, a fixed duration that happens to be perfect for one batch under- or over-shoots the next. The sensor-driven stop rule collapses that variation away: it always ends at the target.

Fixed-timer duration — the blind robot's programmed cook time. Tune it to "nominal" and watch it still miss on unusual batches.
Auto-run — keeps generating new randomized batches automatically so the consistency tallies build up faster.

⏱ Fixed timer📡 Sensor feedback

Undercooked Perfect Overcooked / burnt

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