proud moment

[Artur Dubrawski]

Dear Autonians,

I am very proud of the recent accomplishments of a team of Auton Lab
members led by
Anthony Wertz and including Jim Leonard, Gus Welter, Jarod Wang, and Andrew
Williams,
who have just managed to pull off an almost impossible feat.

As many of you might have known, they were building a new monitoring and
resuscitation control system for an animal operating room at Pitt School of
Medicine, to enable our partners there to conduct experiments in the scope
of the DoD TRACIR project. The first surgeries were scheduled for this
week, and it was assumed that our team would physically assist the
clinicians on site to help the transition and troubleshoot any emerging
issues, since such an advanced system has never been used before. But, we
have implemented social distancing regime on Monday, putting the whole
experiment at risk...

However, Anthony and Team - at an incredibly short notice - managed to
remotely configure the system for remote monitoring and remote
troubleshooting, allowing - as of today - two successful surgeries, without
being physically present on site at all. And yes, some troubleshooting was
needed in the process.

I like to compare Anthony's operation to NASA Mission Control Center (the
picture below, of what appears to be his home office, even bears some
similarity). But NASA staff their spacecraft with astronauts highly trained
in operating their systems, the luxury Anthony and Team did not have.

Congrats Anthony and Team!

Artur

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