History

Previous SPAR Workshops

The organizers are participants in previous SPAR workshops, which have always had great success and fostered some great discussion.

Links to the previous SPAR workshops:

• • First workshop: http://legacydirs.umiacs.umd.edu/~yzyang/spar.html

  • Second workshop: https://www.ics.ei.tum.de/index.php?id=210

  • Third workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/spar2018/home

  • Fourth workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/spar2019/home

Special Issue

Our last two successful IROS workshops held in 2015 and 2017 have received a substantial attention from academics and also industry. As a follow-up outcome, besides this third-edition of the workshop, we are also proposing a special issue for the journal “Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS)“ on “Semantic Policy and Action Representations for Autonomous Robots (SPAR)“. With this special issue we aim at providing a collection of latest state-of-the-art semantic-based policy and action representation approaches in robotics and machine learning.

More information on the RAS-SPAR Special issue is available at

• https://www.journals.elsevier.com/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-semantic-policy-and-action-representations