Holly Dinkel

Ph.D. Candidate in Aerospace Engineering

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Urbana, Illinois. 61801

Holly Dinkel is pursuing the Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she researches robotic caretaking as a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellow with the NASA Ames Research Center Intelligent Robotics Group and the NASA Johnson Space Center Dexterous Robotics Laboratory. She previously completed the M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics and a certificate in entrepreneurship at Stanford University and the B.S. and B.A. in chemical engineering and music, respectively, at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

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Publications

2024

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    Image-Based Pose Estimation of Sub-Centimeter Industrial Parts for Automated Assembly
    In CoRL Workshop on Learning Robotic Assembly of Industrial and Everyday Objects, Nov 2024
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    Business Innovation in Commercial Space: Culture and Trends in Earth Observation
    In IAF International Astronautical Congress, Oct 2024
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    AstrobeeCD: Change Detection in Microgravity with Free-Flying Robots
    Acta Astronautica, Oct 2024
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    KnotDLO: Toward Interpretable Knot Tying
    In IEEE ICRA Workshop on 3D Visual Representations for Manipulation, May 2024
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    TrackDLO: Tracking Deformable Linear Objects Under Occlusion with Motion Coherence
    IEEE ICRA Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects, May 2024
    Best Abstract Finalist 🏆
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    Unsupervised Change Detection for Space Habitats Using 3D Point Clouds
    In AIAA SciTech Forum, Jan 2024

2023

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    The Impact of Time Step Frequency on the Realism of Robotic Manipulation Simulation for Objects of Different Scales
    In IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on Robotics and AI in Future Factory (RAFF), Oct 2023
    Best Poster Finalist 🏆
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    TrackDLO: Tracking Deformable Linear Objects Under Occlusion with Motion Coherence
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Aug 2023
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    Simultaneous Shape Tracking of Multiple Deformable Linear Objects with Global-Local Topology Preservation
    Jingyi Xiang, and Holly Dinkel
    In IEEE ICRA Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects, May 2023
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    Multi-Agent 3D Map Reconstruction and Change Detection in Microgravity with Free-Flying Robots
    In IAF International Astronautical Congress, Oct 2023

2022

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    Vela: A Data-Driven Proposal for Joint Collaboration in Space Exploration
    Holly Dinkel*, and Jason Cornelius*
    In IAF International Astronautical Congress, Oct 2022
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    Wire Point Cloud Instance Segmentation from RGBD Imagery with Mask R-CNN
    In IEEE ICRA Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects, May 2022
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    Insights from an Industrial Collaborative Assembly Project: Lessons in Research and Collaboration
    In IEEE ICRA Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Work of the Future, May 2022

2021

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    Development of a Private Space Sector in the U.S. and Russia
    Jason CorneliusHolly Dinkel, and Arzu Kurgan
    In IAF Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX), Jun 2021
    Best Technical Presentation Finalist 🏆

2016

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    Gas Filled RF Resonator Hadron Beam Monitor for Intense Neutrino Beam Experiments
    In International Particle Accelerator Conference, Jun 2016
* Equal Contribution

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