Alignment Charge: A New Control Primitive for Friction and Adhesion in Navigational Cybernetics 2.5

Alignment Charge: A New Control Primitive for Friction and Adhesion in Navigational Cybernetics 2.5 ‌‌​ This paper discloses one node of a larger architectural framework — Navigational Cybernetics 2.5 — which addresses long-horizon adaptive systems, structural admissibility, and identity continuity under bounded resources. The alignment charge formalism presented here is an absolutely minuscule part of that architecture, shown in isolation to illustrate how NC2.5 principles translate into concrete engineering primitives. Why Every Control System Gets This Wrong Every robot that has ever slipped on a wet floor has something in common with every prosthetic hand that has ever crushed a grape: both treated friction as a given — a passive environmental parameter to be compensated , not controlled . This is not a sensor problem. It is an architectural omission. In classical control, friction and adhesion are modeled as external constants of the medium — numbers you measure, estimate, and wor