proud moment

[Martial H Hebert]

Wow. This is the kind of creativity that we all need right now. Congratulations all.

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From: Howard Choset <choset at andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 2:30 AM
To: John Michael Galeotti <jgaleotti at cmu.edu>
Cc: Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu>; users at autonlab.org; Howie Choset <choset at cs.cmu.edu>; Srinivasa G Narasimhan <srinivas at andrew.cmu.edu>; Martial Hebert <hebert+ at cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: proud moment

Thank you all!
Howie Choset, Professor
Robotics institute, Carnegie Mellon
412-268-2495.  choset at cs.cmu.edu<mailto:choset at cs.cmu.edu>
http://Biorobotics.org



On Mar 20, 2020, at 1:08 AM, John Michael Galeotti <jgaleotti at cmu.edu<mailto:jgaleotti at cmu.edu>> wrote:
Yes indeed, congratulations!

Because Anthony’s system worked, we also managed to get our first ultrasound videos of the pigs today, barely in time before the governor’s announcement today!  Many thanks to the Anthony & team, and to all the students in Howie’s and my labs who reengineered their systems on short notice while submitting 4 major conference papers on Tuesday. And special thanks to Nico in Howie’s lab, who finished pulling pieces together for us at our last moment.

Thanks,
John Galeotti
(Please pardon any smartphone typos.)


On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:36 AM, Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu<mailto:awd at cs.cmu.edu>> wrote:


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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