Amadee-24-Staying Alive
Details
| Acronym | Staying Alive -Life support tasks under autonomous operationand under Earth-Mars joint operation |
| Description | A photobioreactor as the air revitalization component of the Hab life support system, equipped with a situationally aware and interactive sensor network. The study also assesses the psychological impact, reactor control from Earth and crew interfacing. |
| Principal Investigator (PI) | Christiane Heinicke | christiane.heinicke@zarm.uni-bremen.de |
| Organisation | ZARM -Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, University of Bremen |
| Co-Investigators | Vera Hagemann, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen | vhagemann@uni-bremen.de |
Summary
Astronauts experience psychological challenges during a planetary mission caused by isolation from other human beings. Moreover, astronauts are dependent on the Life Support System (LSS) to withstand the rough, Martian environmental conditions. A proper, human centered LSS, which is controlled and understood easily by the astronaut is essential for a successful Mars mission.
Staying Alive deals with the revitalizing component of the LSS in a habitat in form of a photobioreactor (PBR). PBRs have already been researched in the past, however, only a scientific basis. Staying Alive comprises three aspects of the PBR:
- Communication and operation
- The user interface
- Contribution to the crew’s mental health
The aim of Staying Alive is to investigate the interaction between the astronaut and the PBR. Additionally, a highly interactive sensor system will be tested. The sensor network shall be able to communicate with humans to learn from experience and new data, to explain its decisions and thus become a team member rather than a data source.
For the mission experiment, a small and simplified PBR will be used in the AMADEE-24 habitat. It uses non-toxic photosynthetic organisms to produce oxygen from ambient air and will be equipped with sensor and a user interface for interaction. During the experiment the crew must perform several tasks once fully autonomously and once jointly with the Mission Support Center (MSC). The tasks to be performed include set-up, maintenance, repair, and science activities. Pre-and post-mission questionnaires as well as video recording will be used to obtain data.
Experiment Data
| Date | Files |
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| 2021-10-04 | types of files for each experiment day, size of the cells: width 1000px, height 10px |