Dale McConachie

PhD (Commencement August 2020)

Autonomous Robotic Manipulation Lab

Robotics Institute

University of Michigan

Office: 1212 Engineering Research Building 2

Email: dmcconac [at] umich.edu

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Deformable Object Manipulation: Learning While Doing

Dale McConachie

PhD Dissertation

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Manipulating Deformable Objects by Interleaving Prediction, Planning, and Control

Dale McConachie, Andrew Dobson, Mengyao Ruan, and Dmitry Berenson

The International Journal of Robotics Research, July, 2020

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Learning When to Trust a Dynamics Model for Planning in Reduced State Spaces

Dale McConachie, Thomas Power, Peter Mitrano, and Dmitry Berenson

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), April, 2020.

Presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2020.

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Accounting for Directional Rigidity and Constraints in Control for Manipulation of Deformable Objects without Physical Simulation

Mengyao Ruan, Dale McConachie, and Dmitry Berenson

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October, 2018.

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Estimating Model Utility for Deformable Object Manipulation Using Multi-Armed Bandit Methods

Dale McConachie and Dmitry Berenson

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 967-979, July 2018.

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Interleaving Planning and Control for Deformable Object Manipulation

Dale McConachie and Dmitry Berenson

International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), December, 2017.

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Bandit-Based Model Selection for Deformable Object Manipulation

Dale McConachie and Dmitry Berenson

Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), December, 2016.

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