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Energy-Constrained Navigation for Planetary Rovers under Hybrid RTG-Solar Power
Tianxin Hu, Weixiang Guo, Ruimeng Liu, Xinhang Xu, Rui Qian, Jinyu Chen, Shenghai Yuan, Lihua Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15062

Energy-Constrained Navigation for Planetary Rovers under Hybrid RTG-Solar Power
Future planetary exploration rovers must operate for extended durations on hybrid power inputs that combine steady radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) output with variable solar photovoltaic (PV) availability. While energy-aware planning has been studied for aerial and underwater robots under battery limits, few works for ground rovers explicitly model power flow or enforce instantaneous power constraints. Classical terrain-aware planners emphasize slope or traversability, and trajector…

RTGS: Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM via Multi-Level Redundancy Reduction
Leshu Li (Kevin), Jiayin Qin (Kevin), Jie Peng (Kevin), Zishen Wan (Kevin), Huaizhi Qu (Kevin), Ye Han (Kevin), Pingqing Zheng (Kevin), Hongsen Zhang (Kevin), Yu (Kevin), Cao (Katie), Tianlong Chen (Katie), Yang (Katie), Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.0664…

RTGS: Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM via Multi-Level Redundancy Reduction
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems can largely benefit from 3DGS's state-of-the-art rendering efficiency and accuracy, but have not yet been adopted in resource-constrained edge devices due to insufficient speed. Addressing this, we identify notable redundancies across the SLAM pipeline for acceleration. While conceptually straightforward, practical approaches are required to minimize the overhead associated with identifying and eliminating t…

Mapping the moir\'e potential in multi-layer rhombohedral graphene
Eric Seewald, Sanat Ghosh, Nishchhal Verma, John Cenker, Yinan Dong, Birui Yang, Amit Basu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Mandar M. Deshmukh, Dmitri N. Basov, Raquel Queiroz, Cory Dean, Abhay N. Pasupathy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09548

Mapping the moiré potential in multi-layer rhombohedral graphene
Rhombohedral graphene (rG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been shown to host flat bands that stabilize various strongly correlated quantum phases, including Mott insulators, integer, and fractional quantum anomalous Hall phases. In this work, we use scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS) to visualize the dispersion of flat bands with doping and applied displacement fields in a hBN-aligned rhombohedral trilayer graphene (rtG)/hBN moiré superlattice. In addition to …