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iros-writing-style

Use when revising an IROS paper for a task-first opening, an integrated-system narrative, the references-counted-in page budget with no supplementary PDF, double-anonymous wording, demo-speak-to-numbers rewrites, and figure-first structure that carries the argument in the body for embodied-systems reviewers.

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# IROS Writing Style

Use this when revising the main paper. An IROS paper has to make a reviewer picture the robot, the task,
and the physical constraint quickly, then trust that the system runs — all inside a page budget that
counts references and offers no appendix escape hatch.

## Revision rules

- Open with the **robot task and the embodiment constraint**, not with "robots are increasingly
  important." The first paragraph should name the platform, the task, and what makes it physically hard.
- Present the contribution as an **integrated system**: name the sensors, the interfaces between
  components, and the compute/latency budget, so the pipeline is reconstructable from the body.
- Treat the **body as the whole paper** — IROS has no supplementary PDF. Anything load-bearing (metric
  definition, protocol, key ablation) lives in the main text or it does not exist for the reviewer.
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