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SUMMARY:Exhibition:More than Gray: Reimagining Early America in Full Color
DESCRIPTION:The American past was lived in full color\, but this vibrant history can be easily missed in surviving evidence. You can’t deny that there’s something about a black-and-white photograph that feels… stuffy. With portraits showing people with their shirts buttoned right to the neck and everything in shades of gray and brown\, our imaginations can incline to thinking of the past as a bit staid\, if not downright dull. But look a little closer\, and you’ll see signs that the fashion choices available to those who came before us were more colorful than you might first think. From the fabrics they wore\, to the games they played\, or the books they read\, their world was alive with bright hues. This exhibit invites you to reimagine history with a fuller color palette and picture the vibrancy and joy that just might be hidden behind the unsmiling photographs.\n\nExhibition opening weekdays from 12-4.
UID:130748-21866776@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130748
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,Library,libraries,history,Free,Exhibition,Exhibit,american history
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20250312T144202
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T123000
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Architectures for Safe Autonomy: Provable Guarantees Across Control\, Planning\, and Perception
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Dimitra Panagou\n\nAbstract\nThis thesis addresses the design of safety-critical autonomous systems - systems that must always satisfy a set of safety constraints. The primary objective is to develop a cohesive architecture for the entire autonomy stack\, ensuring that\, under specific and verifiable assumptions\, a robot can execute its mission while respecting these constraints.\n\nTo achieve this\, we take a bottom-up approach\, beginning with the design of a safety-critical controller and identifying the necessary assumptions for its safe operation. These assumptions impose requirements on upstream autonomy modules\, such as planning and perception. We then develop methods to construct these modules in a way that preserves safety guarantees across the entire autonomy stack.\n\nThe main contributions of this thesis include: (A) the gatekeeper architecture - a flexible framework for establishing rigorous safety guarantees at the planning level\, (B) the development of certifiably correct perception algorithms that not only produce accurate obstacle maps but also provide error bounds to ensure correctness despite odometry drift\, and (C) the introduction of clarity and perceivability - concepts that quantify a robotic system’s ability to gather information about its environment\, taking into account the environment model\, as well as the robot’s actuation and sensing capabilities.\n\nFor each of these contributions\, we provide formal proofs and demonstrate their practical effectiveness through simulations and hardware experiments with aerial and mobile robots.\n\nZoom passcode: opensesame
UID:133772-21873545@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133772
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Aerospace Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics
LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2300
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