proud moment

[Patricia N Spencer]

Wow!!!  This is really amazing! Congrats to all involved!!

Trish

From: Autonlab-users <autonlab-users-bounces at autonlab.org> On Behalf Of Artur Dubrawski
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 12:36 AM
To: users at autonlab.org; Howie Choset <choset at cs.cmu.edu>; John Michael Galeotti <jgaleotti at cmu.edu>; Srinivasa G Narasimhan <srinivas at andrew.cmu.edu>; Martial Hebert <hebert+ at cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: proud moment

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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