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Use when deciding whether a project is a strong IROS fit, routing among ICRA, RSS, CoRL, RA-L, T-RO, HRI, and CASE from IROS's seat on the fall IEEE/RSJ calendar, identifying the integrated-system contribution and its embodiment constraint, and sharpening the intelligent-robots-and-systems framing before writing begins.

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# IROS Topic Selection

Use this before writing. IROS is strongest for an **integrated intelligent system** — perception,
estimation, planning, learning, or control working together on a robot — validated under a real
embodiment constraint. The house question is not "is the idea novel?" but "does the system run, on
stated hardware, and is that demonstrably hard?"

## Fit test

- Prefer IROS when the contribution is a working system for perception-action integration, autonomy,
  navigation, manipulation, robot learning deployed on hardware, human-aware robotics, or fielded
  systems — and the embodiment (sensors, compute, power, latency) shapes the design.
- Route to **ICRA** when the work is a fine automation/robotics contribution whose natural slot is the
  spring cycle; IROS and ICRA overlap heavily, so timing and program fit often decide.
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