# Thermal-Headroom Routing: Heat-Budget Routing for Robot Perception in Extreme Heat

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-27T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/fxduwks0fvfp4o7ivqifrw5sv
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.35231

## Summary

The authors propose Thermal-Headroom Routing (THR), a lightweight model-selection policy that uses a closed-form RC thermal model to predict processor temperature and exclude detector configurations predicted to cross the throttling threshold.