Conversational Collaborative Robots

Chalamalasetti Kranti


Abstract
Spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) aims to enable natural, interactive and collaborative conversations. My research interest lies in leveraging these situated collaborative conversations to teach new concepts (skills) to collaborative robots (cobots). These cobots, when operating in manufacturing environments such as assembly lines, are envisioned to converse with humans, reach common ground, and learn new skills in one shot without the need for multiple demonstrations. Unlike SDSs in consumer domains, these cobot-based systems must handle conversations in noisy, time-sensitive industrial settings. Motivated by these challenges, my research focuses on building collaborative dialogue systems capable of integrating conversational programming to translate situated dialogue into modular programs, knowing when to ask for clarifications, and adapting the program based on corrections.
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2025.yrrsds-1.3
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Proceedings of the 21st Workshop of Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems
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August
Year:
2025
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Avignon, France
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Ryan Whetten, Virgile Sucal, Anh Ngo, Kranti Chalamalasetti, Koji Inoue, Gaetano Cimino, Zachary Yang, Yuki Zenimoto, Ricardo Rodriguez
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6–9
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Chalamalasetti Kranti. 2025. Conversational Collaborative Robots. In Proceedings of the 21st Workshop of Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems, pages 6–9, Avignon, France. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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