icra-artifact-evaluationUse when packaging the artifacts behind an ICRA paper — ROS packages, controllers, simulation environments, trained policies, CAD and PCB files, datasets, and trial logs — into something a robotics reviewer or reader can actually run or audit, given that ICRA has no formal artifact-badging track to
icra-author-responseUse when responding to ICRA reviews in the channels that actually exist — turning decision-day reviewer comments into a disciplined camera-ready revision, writing the revise-and-resubmit response letter on the RA-L pathway, or converting an ICRA reject into a targeted IROS or RA-L resubmission — sin
icra-camera-readyUse when converting an accepted ICRA paper into its final form — the 8-page total limit including references, de-anonymization after double-anonymous review, PaperPlaza final upload and PDF compliance, IEEE electronic copyright transfer, final video, author registration requirements, and IEEE Xplore
icra-experimentsUse when designing or auditing the experimental section of an ICRA paper — real-robot versus simulation-only evidence, trial counts and success-rate reporting, task distributions and resets, baseline fairness on shared hardware, sim-to-real transfer claims, failure-mode analysis, and the statistics
icra-related-workUse when building or auditing the related-work section of an ICRA paper — covering the conference's own recent proceedings plus IROS, RSS, CoRL, RA-L, and T-RO lanes, handling arXiv-only robotics work, citing your own platform papers under ICRA's double-anonymous rules, and positioning against comme
icra-reproducibilityUse when hardening an ICRA paper's reproducibility — specifying robot platform, firmware, ROS and driver versions, control rates, and sensor calibration; logging rosbags and seeds; separating what others can rerun (code, sim) from what they can only audit (your hardware trials); and writing honest a
icra-review-processUse when explaining or strategizing around ICRA's review pipeline — the RAS Conference Editorial Board of Editors and Associate Editors, reviewer recruitment through PaperPlaza, the absence of an author rebuttal in the classic ICRA flow, the January accept/reject decision, and how this differs from
icra-submissionUse when auditing an ICRA paper for upload — PaperPlaza account and metadata, the 6-page-plus-2-reference-page limit, IEEE two-column template compliance, the double-anonymous rule introduced in the 2026 cycle, video-attachment specs (180 s, 20 MB), dual-submission conflicts with RA-L, and return-wi
icra-supplementaryUse when planning ICRA supplementary material, which in this venue means primarily the video attachment — 180 seconds, 20 MB, submitted in fixed PaperPlaza windows — plus external code links; covers storyboarding, showing failures, anonymization of footage, and what may never live only outside the 6
icra-topic-selectionUse when deciding whether a robotics project belongs at ICRA, choosing between a direct ICRA submission and the RA-L journal route with conference presentation, or re-routing to IROS, RSS, CoRL, T-RO, HRI, or CASE based on contribution type, evidence shape, and the embodiment test.
icra-workflowUse when planning an ICRA submission calendar end to end — the September paper deadline, the two video-attachment windows, winter review silence, late-January notification, March camera-ready, and the May/June conference — or when interleaving a fallback RA-L or IROS plan around the single annual IC
icra-writing-styleUse when drafting or tightening an ICRA manuscript — leading with the robot task and physical constraint, compressing a systems story into 6 IEEE two-column pages, writing figure-first for skimming reviewers, quantifying instead of demo-speak, and keeping notation consistent across kinematics, contr