#Craig Boe

[bugeyedfreaks]

Remember that plane design of the ppg and the crazy thing is the plane is still mobile just got a new paint job.

It would crazy when the Craig reboot happens this would have the same plane painted again and I would love to fly it

Well, if they ever do that again, whoever’s involved in the project better keep it under wraps until it’s ready. Especially if it’s with Boeing. 👀

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Alan J Smith, Washington state Inmate 381201, born 1976, incarceration intake in 2015 at age 39; sentenced to 28.6 years; scheduled release date not published

Murder

In Mach 2015, about 30 people packed into an Everett courtroom 5 to hear the sentencing of Alan Smith who was convicted of killing his estranged wife, Susann Smith, in Feb. 2013.   The 37-year-old mother of two was found face down in the bathtub in her Bothell home. She’d been repeatedly beaten before she was dragged into the bathroom and drowned.

Ultimately, Smith was sentenced to 28.6 years, minus time served, and 36 months of community custody after release from prison by Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Linda Krees. It was an intense and emotional hearing for all involved and Smith spoke to courtroom for on the second time during the past month.

Prosecutors alleged that Smith was angry because his divorce wasn’t going the way he wanted. He had racked up a large debt and feared that his wife was going to take their children to her native Germany.

Evidence showed that the killer carefully tried to cover his tracks. Bothell detectives never found the murder weapon, believed to be a rubber mallet.

Smith was arrested four months after the killing. A man he met at church reported that Smith confessed to the murder. Smith had sought the man’s advice on how to handle his then-girlfriend, a mentally ill woman. She later committed suicide.

The same court convicted Smith a month ealrier of premeditated murder in the first degree with a deadly weapon.

Craig Matheson, prosecutor, requested the 344-month sentence with 36 months of community custody, along with no contact with any of the witnesses who testified in the case and limited contact to he and Susann’s two children.

Alan Smith spoke on his own behalf, waiving the counsel he had been appointed. He question some of the fees being assessed, many required by statute, and the no contact with his children.

Smith has already served 20 months since his arrest on June 27, 2013. The court imposed the required fees, around $600.

Smith appealed his conviction.  The former Boeing engineer wasn’t able to convince the state Court of Appeals that his confession to a former pastor should have been protected by the clergy-penitent privilege.

In his appeal, Smith argued that Snohomish County Superior Court Linda Krese shouldn’t have allowed the man’s testimony. Smith claimed that the man was acting as a member of the clergy, and therefore their conversation was privileged. The man reported Smith’s comments to police when he couldn’t convince him to surrender to police.

The man had been an associate pastor at a Tacoma church but left and joined another church, where he was part of the congregation, but not a member of the clergy.

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Last reviewed July 2024

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Hello! 😊

Could you please help me locate some people who could play the parents and a younger sister for Aisha Dee? Thank you.

Done a whole ass family template including brother, sister, mother and father here.

Some additions as that is five years old now:

Due to Aisha being biracial please make one parent white and one black (or biracial). Thank you. Those older adults who are biracial will have (br) next to them.

Younger sister

Maisie Richardson-Sellers

Kadiatou Holm Keita

Brittany O'Grady

Laura Harrier

Mercedes Morris

Ruby Barker

Taylor Russell

Alisha Boe

Mother

Laverne Cox - Trans woman

Candis Cayne - Trans woman

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Melissa McCarthy

Nina Sosanya (br)

Adjoa Andoh (br)

Andie MacDowell

Carmen Ejogo (br)

Suranne Jones

Rutina Wesley

Sanaa Lathan

Danai Gurira

Adina Porter

Regina King

Lillias White

Father

Roger Guenveur Smith

Sean Patrick Thomas

Richard Ayoade (br)

Laurence Fishburne

Daniel Sunjata (br)

Viggo Mortensen

Harold Perrineau

Omari Hardwick

Craig Robinson

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Zachary Quinto

David Tennant

John Krasinski

DB Woodside

Willem Dafoe

Michael Ealy

Skeet Ulrich

Rhys Darby

Andy Serkis

[5hitp0stn4tion]

all the things that the last of us universe missed out on:

(from the outbreak in the show to the release of the game)

esa's first space mission (27/09/2003)

elf (07/11/2003)

the last concorde flight (26/11/2003)

love actually (26/11/2003)

the arrest of saddam hussein (13/12/2003)

the lord of the rings: the return of the king (21/02/2003)

the burj khalifa (construction started on 06/01/2004)

facebook (originally launched 04/02/2004 for harvard students)

hurricane catrina (made landfall in brazil on 28/03/2004)

shrek 2 and subsequent shrek movies (post 15/05/2004)

the notebook (25/06/2004)

the first transit of venus (08/06/2004)

privately funded spaceflight (first on 21/06/2004)

the last world driver's championship of michael schumacher (29/08/2004)

saw (29/10/2004)

the incredibles (05/11/2004)

national treasure (19/11/2004)

the boxing day tsunami (26/12/2004)

youtube (launched 14/05/2005)

avatar the last airbender (21/02/2005)

airbus a380s (27/04/2005)

star wars iii: revenge of the sith (15/05/2005)

mr & mrs smith (and by extension brangelina) (10/06/2005)

a HIV cure (13/11/2005)

a human face transplant (30/11/2005)

twitter (launched 21/03/2006)

the completion of the human genome project (17/05/2006)

the devil wears prada (30/06/2006)

pirates of the carribean: the curse of the black pearl and subsequent potc films (post 06/07/2006)

the reclassification of pluto as a 'dwarf planet' (24/08/2006)

wikileaks (04/10/06)

daniel craig's james bond (16/11/2006)

happy feet (17/11/2006)

pan's labyrinth (24/11/06)

the iphone (09/01/2007)

TUMBLR (19/02/2007)

stardust (29/07/07) - one of the best movies ever imo.

the declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples (13/09/2007)

the worldwide criminalisation of slavery (2007)

the financial crisis (2007-2008)

the dark night (24/07/2008)

lewis hamilton (won his first championship 02/11/2008)

president barack obama (elected 04/11/2008)

twilight (21/11/2008)

cryptocurrency (first block of blockchain is established 03/01/2009)

swine flu pandemic (11/06/2009) - although i think they've probably had enough of pandemics

the death of michael jackson (25/06/2009)

league of legends (27/10/2009)

COD: modern warfare 2 (10/11/2009)

boeing 787 (15/11/2009)

the first exoplanet possibly having water (16/12/2009)

avatar (17/12/2009)

ipad (03/04/2010)

toy story 3 and subsequent toy story films (post 18/06/2010)

one direction (formed 23/07/2010)

lady gaga'd infamous meat dress (12/09/2010)

germany makes their final reparation payment for wwi (03/10/2010)

instagram (06/10/2010)

game of thrones (17/04/2011)

kate and williams wedding (29/04/2011)

the death of osama bin laden (01/05/2011)

end to the iraq war (15/11/2011)

minecraft (18/11/2011)

vlad becoming the president of russia (07/05/2012)

the dark night rises (16/07/2012)

the mers pandemic (24/09/2012)

legalisation of cannabis (WA: 06/12/2012)

end of the mayan calendar (21/12/2012)

the first 3d printed tissue (21/02/2013)

the ascension of 2 popes (benedict xvi on 19/04/2005, and francis on 13/03/2013)

the last of us (14/06/2013)

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Boeing Whistleblower Says Company Won't Listen 'Until Somebody Dies'

Craig Garriott, a technician at Boeing’s satellite factory in L.A., has emerged as the latest whistleblower to speak out against the company over safety concerns. In a new sit-down with CBS News, Garriott called out Boeing for allegedly putting… from TMZ.com https://www.tmz.com/2024/12/05/boeing-whistleblower-craig-garriott-says-company-not-listen-until-somebody-dies/

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Boeing Whistleblower Says Company Won't Listen 'Until Somebody Dies'

Craig Garriott, a technician at Boeing's satellite factory in L.A., has emerged as the latest whistleblower to speak out against the company over safety concerns. In a new sit-down with CBS News, Garriott called out Boeing for allegedly putting… via https://ift.tt/oXZGU6w

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tv shows muses.

DEGRASSI, THE NEXT GENERATION.

CLARE EDWARDS, student at degrassi; drama queen, loves journalisms and vampire literature. nineteen/twenty, ella purnell, bisexual. ELI GOLDSWORTHY, playwright, student at nyu and former student at degrassi, drama king, nineteen/twenty, munro chambers, bisexual. BIANCA DESOUSA, former student at degrassi and college student now, nineteen/twenty, cierra ramirez, bisexual. IMOGEN MORENO, student at degrassi and drama club enthusiats, nineteen, cristine prosperi, lesbian. PAIGE MICHALCHUK, eighteen/twenty-five, queen bee of degrassi high, a lover, bisexual who has an older brother who plays hockey far away from home, renée rapp. MANUELA SANTOS, eighteen-twenty five years, future movie star who loves hanging with band when boredrom kick in, bisexual, cassie steele. JAKE MARTIN, eighteen/twenty-five man who love to build things and do love working on gardens, bisexual, nick robinson. BECKY BAKER, miss sunshine who loves musical and annoying directors, christian girl who is rebellious at times, eighteen/twenty-five, bisexual, madelyn cline. CRAIG MANNING, musician who gets in trouble a lot with girls or boys, loves music as if it was his entiere life, eighteen/twenty-five, bisexual, felix mallard. MAYA MATLIN, cello and guitare enthousiast, loves to educate people with mental illness and is a lead singer in her own band, eighteen/twenty five, olivia scriven, bisexual. ASHLEY KHERWIN, music lover who would do anything to being people back tonlife with her lyrics, eighteen/twenty-five, bisexual, benedetta gargan.

GLEE.

RACHEL BERRY, the drama queen who needs validation but know what she’s worth. eighteen, is going to be the it girl of broadway. rachel zegler. bisexual. BLAINE ANDERSON, warblers prodigy, loves the glee club like a second family, eighteen - twenty-five, homosexual icon, darren criss. MERCEDES JONES, queen latifa and the beyonce of the glee club, isn’t afraid to hurt your feelings, eighteen - twenty- five, bisexual, ryan destiny.

ONE TREE HILL.

HALEY JAMES SCOTT, once a student, validatorian, singer, producer, mom and wife, twenty-five, bethany joy lenz, straight, BROOKE DAVIS, cheerleader, head of the cheerleading squad alongside peyton sawyer who is her best friend and is the girl behind the red door. eighteen-thrity, bisexual, sophia bush.

SKINS UK.

EFFY STONEM, witch who’s a part of the frasser coven ( fear streat based ), twenty, marine vacht, lesbian.

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES.

KATHERINE PIERCE, vampire who’s living for blood and wrath, twenty in apparence but 545+, daniela nieves, bisexual. KAI PARKER, leader of the gemini coven ( finally ), sociopath without a heart, twenty in apparence but 35+, no shippable, chris wood. BONNIE BENNET, town witch who is tougher than she looks, would do anything for her friends, even sacrificing herself, seventeen - twenty, kat graham, bisexual.

SHADOWHUNTERS/ MORTAL INSTRUMENT.

CLARY FAIRCHILD, shadowhunter who’s looking for her mother and tries not to attract the wrong people around but can’t, twenty, sophie skeleton, bisexual.

THIRTEEN REASON WHY ( TAGGED AS 13RW IF YOU WANNA BAN IT )

JESSICA DAVIS, future journalist who survived a lot in her high school years, twenty, alisha boe, bisexual.

TEEN WOLF.

LYDIA MARTIN, mathlet who loves shopping too much and skate on the ice when she has the times, is something special, can shatter your skull with her banshee cries, seventeen - twenty, kennedy walsh, bisexual.

SKAM NORWAY.

CHRIS SCHISTAD, penetrator chris when it comes to parties, love flirting with girls, and is a literature lover, twenty, herman tommeraas, bisexual. NOORA SÆTRE, future madam president, would rather see her friends smile than cry and will sing justin bieber to cheer them up, twenty, bisexual, josephine frida pettersen.

WEDNESDAY.

WEDNESDAY ADDAMS, loves to tourment people and solve mistery. eighteen, jenna ortega, bisexual.

MY LIFE WITH THE WALTER BOYS. ( BOOK + TV SHOW ADAPTED. )

KATHERINE WALTER, mother of twelve ( now thirteen ) kids , guardians, ( not all them hers but she loves them all equally. ) , late fourty, veterinarian in Silver Falls and happily married to george. sarah rafferty. JACKIE HOWARD, little city girl who doesn’t like calm city living in silver falls with eleven boys and a girl who she foundly adores.eighteen, bisexual nikki rodriguez. COLE WALTER, ex-quaterback of his high school football team, broody and mysterious, second of twelve bothers, is trying his best but sometimes, don’t succed. eighteen, bisexual, noah lalonde.

CHARMED.

PHOEBE HALLIWELL, twenty-thirty verse dependant, witch who loves to prank her sister and be gone for their lives for a thousand years and come back as if nothing bad happened when there is still obviously some bad blood with her older sister, student at law college of san fransisco, bisexual, seb quesada.

VERONICA MARS.

WALLACE FENNEL, eighteen/twenty-five, nerd who loves to solve mystery with his best friend, loyal friend who would go down for justice and everything that comes with it, bisexual, percy daggs iii.

COBRA KAI.

ROBBY KEENE, eighteen years old, part of the miyagi-do / eagles dojo. a little bit misunderstood, troublemaker, and have serious daddy issues. tanner buchanan, bisexual.

SMALLVILLE.

OLIVER QUEEN, twenty-eight years old billionaire who’s willing to do everything to save the citizens from smallville and metropolis, bisexual and justin hartley.

H2O: JUST ADD WATER.

RIKKI CHADWICK, eighteen years old girl who likes to swim and cause trouble around. is stubborn at times and likes to protect her friends from everything that could harm them, bisexual, cariba heine.

BRIDGERTON.

PENELOPE FEATHERINGTON, eloise’s best friend, colin’s wife and anthony’s favorite person. loves to gossip around ( in secret, for sure ) and is a mama’s girl ( unfortunally. ), in her twenty, bisexual, nicola coughlan.

THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY.

TAYLOR JEWEL, seventeen-eighteen years, belly's best friend and team jellyfish all the way. loves to be dramatic and shows that she is strong when sometimes, she needs someone to tell her that its okay to let go, pansexual, rain spencer.

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Nulling System Market to Witness Excellent Revenue Growth Owing to Rapid Increase in Demand

In Nulling System, GPS anti-jamming technology is used to protect GPS receivers from intervention and intentional jamming. The GPS anti-jamming solutions use power minimization to reduce the effect of interference and jamming to ensure the correct functioning of GPS receivers. These devices use digital filtering technology to amplify the ability of GPS receivers to lock or weaken the GPS signals caused by the external noise interferences from other electronic devices or GPS jammers.

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Medium and Large Satellite Market Set for Explosive Growth

Latest added Medium and Large Satellite Market research study by Market Research Forecast offers detailed outlook and elaborates market review till 2032. The market Study is segmented by key regions that are accelerating the marketization. At present, the market players are strategizing and overcoming challenges of current scenario; some of the key players in the study are Airbus SAS (Netherlands), Lockheed Martin Corporation (U.S.), L3Harris Technologies Inc. (U.S.), SpaceX (U.S.), NASA (U.S.), Northrop Grumman Corporation (U.S.), Sierra Nevada Corporation (U.S.), ST Engineering (Singapore), The Boeing Company (U.S.), Thales Group (France) etc. Get inside Scoop of the report, request for free sample @: https://marketresearchforecast.com/report/medium-and-large-satellite-market-2665/sample-report The Medium and Large Satellite Marketsize was valued at USD 7.90 USD Billion in 2023 and is projected to reach USD 10.90 USD Billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 4.7 % during the forecast period. Market Growth Drivers: Rising Demand for Satellite Communication Equipment Due to Growing Space Exploration Programs Will Aid Market Growth Know your current market situation! Not just new products but ongoing products are also essential to analyze due to ever-changing market dynamics. The study allows marketers to understand Medium and Large Satellite Market consumer trends and segment analysis where they can face a rapid market share drop. Figure out who really the competition is in the marketplace, get to know market share analysis, market position, % Market Share, and segmented revenue. The Global Medium and Large Satellite segments and Market Data Break Down Orbit: LEO, MEO, GEO, and Others","Application: Earth Observation, Navigation and Global Positioning, Communication, and Others","End User: Commercial, Government, and Military","Payload: Up to 5000 kg, 5000 to 10000 kg, and Above 10000 kg Thanks for reading this article; you can also get individual chapter wise section or region wise report version like North America, Middle East, Africa, Europe or LATAM, Southeast Asia. More Reports:

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I got to meet a living legend!!!

Rev. Matthew Fong (right), 102, a WWII United States Army Air Corp veteran with his son Jerome Fong, 65, at home in San Francisco on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Matthew was stationed in England and a Boeing B-17 bomber belly gunner flying 35 missions over Germany. After the war, he went to UC Berkeley and Yale Divinity School receiving a doctorate of ministry in 1956. He became senior minister at Chinese Congregational Church in Chinatown, San Francisco until his retirement in 1987. (Craig Lee/The San Francisco Examiner)

[wikiuntamed]

Top 5 @Wikipedia pages from a year ago: Sunday, 12th March 2023

Welcome, välkommen, ласкаво просимо (laskavo prosymo), добредојде (dobredojde) 🤗 What were the top pages visited on @Wikipedia (12th March 2023) 🏆🌟🔥?

1️⃣: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 "{{Infobox aircraft occurrence | name = Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | image = Boeing 777-200ER Malaysia AL (MAS) 9M-MRO - color.jpg | image_upright = 1.2 | alt = A Boeing 777 in Malaysia Airlines livery just after lifting off the runway | caption = The..."

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2️⃣: Silicon Valley Bank "Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a commercial bank division of First Citizens BancShares. The bank was previously the primary subsidiary of SVB Financial Group, a publicly traded bank holding company that had offices in 15 U.S. states and over a dozen international jurisdictions.As a regional bank in..."

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3️⃣: Drill "A drill is a tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners. It is fitted with a bit, either a drill or driver chuck. Hand-operated types are dramatically decreasing in popularity and cordless battery-powered ones proliferating due to increased efficiency and ease of use. Drills are commonly..."

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4️⃣: The Last of Us (TV series) "The Last of Us is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO. Based on the video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, the series is set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which causes its hosts to transform..."

5️⃣: Jenna Ortega "Jenna Marie Ortega (born September 27, 2002) is an American actress. She began her career as a child, receiving recognition for her role as young Jane in The CW comedy-drama series Jane the Virgin (2014–2019). From 2016 to 2018, Ortega had a leading role as Harley Diaz in the Disney Channel series..."

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MY AUDIO FROM THE STADGED CONCERT OF LES MISERABLES FROM 2019 IS NOW AVAILABLE ON PAYHIP.

Cast: Alfie Boe (Jean Valjean) Michael Ball (Javert) Carrie Hope Fletcher (Fantine) Matt Lucas (Thernadier) Katy Secombe (Madame Thernadier) Shan Ako (Eponine) Rob Houchen (Marius) Lily Kerhoas (Cosette) Bradley Jaden (Enjolras) Earl Carpenter (The Bishop) Factory Foreman (Gavin James) Celia Graham (Factory girl) Craig Mather (Combeferre) Vinny Coyle (Feuilly) Niall Sheehy (Courfeyrac) Ciaran Joyce (Joly) *unknown Gavroche & Little Cosette* Notes: 01/10/2019. Great quality audio of the staged concert cast midway through their run, with a very excited and lively audience for a Tuesday evening! Alfonso Casado Trigo got well-deserved entrance applause at the top of both acts, as did Matt Lucas during first entrance. Matt also loses his wig during Beggars At The Feast, and the entire scene derails from there with Rob being the only person on stage (and in the whole building!) to keep it together, and the bows have been kept in and as Michael then snatched his wig, much to the delight of the audience. Showstopping performance from Alfie Boe, and wonderful performances from Rob Houchen, Bradley Jaden, Katy Secombe, Matt Lucas, Earl Carpenter and the ensemble.

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[fahrni]

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️

We finally got a bit of snow this week! Temperatures have remained low all week and we got a bit more snow Friday morning. Lovin it! ❄️

We have our grandkids this weekend so this post will be abbreviated.

NOTE: Super abbreviated. I’m skipping my usual commentary. I hope you enjoy the links.

Benjojo

Since people are now posting social media updates on a system that is a lot more decentralised than twitter once was, I was interested in knowing where these instances are hosted to see just how decentralised it really was!

Corey Atad • Defector

I Can’t Stop Watching ‘Tenet,’ And I Finally Know Why

Molly White

Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details

Dominic Gates • The Seattle Times

When the Boeing 737 MAX 9’s side blew out explosively on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Friday evening, a 15-year-old high school student was in the window seat in the row directly ahead, his shoulder beside the edge of the gaping hole.

DAVID SEGAL • The New York Times

The guys in Bad Dog, a folkie duo from Washington, D.C., weren’t hoping to get rich off the album they recorded this summer. David Post and Craig Blackwell have been devoted amateurs for decades, and they’re long past dreams of tours and limos. Mostly they wanted a CD to give away at a house party in December.

Jacob Stern • The Atlantic

When the writer Ryan Broderick joined Substack in 2020, it felt, he told me, like an “oasis.” The email-newsletter platform gave him a direct line to his readers. He did not have to deal with the chaos and controversy of social media. Substack was far from perfect, he knew—COVID conspiracies flourished, and on at least one occasion, trans writers on the platform were doxxed and harassed—but compared with the rest of the internet, he found the conditions tolerable. Until they weren’t. On Wednesday, he sent out an edition of his newsletter titled “It’s Time to Leave Substack.”

[Ron Amadeo • Ars Technica] (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/first-streaming-only-nfl-playoff-game-breaks-records-with-23-million-viewers/)

NFL fans weren’t particularly happy about having to sign up for some random streaming service to watch a playoff game, but that didn’t stop many people from actually signing up, with Nielsen logging 23 million average streaming viewers for the game.

Chance Miller, Benjamin Mayo, and Ben Schoon • 9to5Mac

Supreme Court upholds Apple vs. Epic ruling, Apple must allow app developers to link to other payment systems

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Alaska Airlines cancels all flights on the Boeing 737 Max 9 through Saturday : NPR

Alaska Airlines N704AL, a 737 Max 9 which made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport after a part of the fuselage broke off mid-flight on Friday, is parked at a maintenance hanger in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. Craig Mitchelldyer/AP hide caption toggle caption Craig Mitchelldyer/AP Alaska Airlines N704AL, a 737 Max 9 which made an emergency landing at Portland…

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New Tool May Make Autonomous Vehicles Safer and Smarter - Technology Org

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New Tool May Make Autonomous Vehicles Safer and Smarter - Technology Org

The invention of autonomous vehicles has proven to be an exciting advancement in technology, but many remain apprehensive about their introduction into society due to safety concerns. The University of Nebraska–Lincln’s Dung Hoang Tran is working on a new solution to change that.

Dung Hoang Tran is building a tool to make autonomous vehicles safer. Image credit: Craig Chandler | UNL Communication and Marketing

With the support of a new $529,041 grant from the National Science Foundation, Tran will continue his work on a verification tool that will make autonomous vehicles and other robotics machinery both safer and smarter.

Autonomous vehicles are able to operate in unfamiliar environments thanks to learning components that have been modeled after real-world scenarios and integrated into their systems. When so many components are combined with unpredictable and unprecedented factors in live environments, safety assessment and risk management can become quite challenging for engineers.

“We have to build a very complex mathematical and computational framework to be able to analyze a complex system like that,” Tran, assistant professor in the School of Computing, said. “When you design that type of system, the deep learning models might behave in a way that could lead your system into a scenario that you don’t want.”

As a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University, Tran created the Neural Network Verification tool, a type of safety verification software that is still currently and widely used by major companies in many industries, including Apple, Boeing and Toyota. Tran’s new tool will build on his previous work to provide engineers with much more comprehensive safety assessments and results.

Tran’s new tool will measure safety using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. In addition to certifying that a system passes or fails safety tests, the new tool will also analyze the probability of risk involved to provide timely, detailed and accurate evaluations at the system level.

“In our new framework, we can also ask, ‘If it’s unsafe, then how unsafe?’” Tran said. “It models the uncertainty of the environment, and that is going to give you the probability of a specification or a requirement being violated, which is very important for decision making or control.”

Tran’s project will use the same novel language he developed for NNV, the probabilistic star temporal logic specification language. This language allows engineers to determine the requirements necessary for the system to behave correctly and safely. Tran and his team will then work to design efficient verification techniques and algorithms that measure the system safety against the requirements.

“If we cannot prove that the system is safe, then we need to generate what we call the ‘counter example,’ or the proof that system is actually unsafe,” Tran said. “Using these counter examples, we can then return the deep learning model or change the system’s design, which can enhance the system’s safety.”

After joining the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and becoming a co-director of the Nebraska Intelligent MoBile Unmanned Systems Lab in 2018, Tran began building a testbed in the lab to test robotics machinery and software. The learning-enabled F1TENTH testbed is a small-scale system used to create real-world scenarios for autonomous vehicles to evaluate their applicability, scalability, and reliability.

According to Tran, ensuring autonomous vehicle safety requires not only that they perform correctly as they’re designed, but also that they react intelligently when unplanned situations occur.

“Testing is not enough to guarantee the safety of the system when it works in the real world,” Tran said. “We want to make sure that the system itself has some internal decision-making process so that when something wrong happens inside the car, it can automatically figure out what’s going to happen next, then perform some smart decisions so it can prevent other problems.”

Tran said that he hopes to continue expanding work on his tool in the future and eventually create one that could be useful for other robotics developers, like his fellow NIMBUS researchers.

“The ultimate goal is that we’re going to build a software tool that everyone can use,” Tran said. “My dream is that I can build another tool that actually fits perfectly for robotics people, and they can adopt it very quickly. I believe that would make a huge impact.”

Source: University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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