H. Dinkel, M. Büsching, A. Longhini, B. Coltin, T. Smith, D. Kragic, M. Björkman, and T. Bretl (2025) "DLO-Splatting: Tracking Deformable Linear Objects Using 3D Gaussian Splatting​," IEEE ICRA 5th Workshop on Reflections on Representations and Manipulating​ Deformable Objects.[Paper][Code][Poster][Presentation Video]

H. Dinkel, R. Navaratna, J. Xiang, B. Coltin, T. Smith, and T. Bretl (2024) "KnotDLO: Toward Interpretable Knot Tying," ICRA Workshop on 3D Visual Representations for Robot Manipulation.[Paper][Code][Poster][Presentation Video]

J. Xiang, H. Dinkel, H. Zhao, N. Gao, B. Coltin, T. Smith, and T. Bretl (2023) "TrackDLO: Tracking Deformable Linear Objects Under Occlusion with Motion Coherence," IEEE Robotics and Automation: Letters.[Paper][Code][Data][Poster][Presentation Video][Supplementary Video]

J. Xiang and H. Dinkel (2023) "MultiDLO: Simultaneous Shape Tracking of Multiple Deformable Linear Objects with Global-Local Topology Preservation," IEEE ICRA Workshop on Deformable Objects.[Paper][Code][Data][Poster][Presentation Video]

H. Dinkel, J. Xiang, H. Zhao, B. Coltin, T. Smith, and T. Bretl (2022) "Wire Point Cloud Instance Segmentation from RGBD Imagery with Mask R-CNN," IEEE ICRA Workshop on Deformable Objects.[Paper][Code][Presentation Video][Supplementary Video]

• NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity award 80NSSC21K1292
• U.S. Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National award P200A180050-19
• P.E.O. International Scholar Award
• Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship
• Illinois Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship
• Illinois Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
• Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation,

Additional research resources were provided by the UIUC Promoting Undergraduate Research in Engineering program, the UIUC Office of Undergraduate Research, the UIUC Department of Aerospace Engineering, the UIUC Coordinated Science Laboratory, the UIUC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the UIUC Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, the NASA Ames Research Center Intelligent Robotics Group, the NASA Johnson Space Center Dexterous Robotics Laboratory, and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Division of Robotics, Perception, and Learning.

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