ERAS C3 Simulator

Synopsis: The ERAS Command, Control and Communication (C3) experiment will provide a test-version of a data processing and communications infrastructure between the suit and a base station.
Institution (PI): Franco Carbognani; Italian Mars Society
Responsible on-site: Franco Carbognani

Description

Within the European MaRs Analog Station for Advanced Technologies Integration Project (ERAS), a Command, Control and Communication (C3) subsystem will provide the data processing and communications equipment required to:

• monitor and control the habitat’s environment and subsystems
• monitor and maintain crew health and safety
• communicate with mission support, rovers and EVA crewmembers
• support data processing related to the mission objectives
• host the core part of the crew operations planning and scheduling support system

The ERAS C3 simulator will be built using, as a starting point, the Habitat Monitoring and Alarm System which has been implemented during the MDRS Crew 102 mission and will be running on a Linux Ubuntu notebook and based on the MANGO Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) application.

During the proposed experiment the communication with the Aouda.X on-board computer (in particular all main biomedical and engineering telemetry) and the interfacing of the MANGO application to the local virtual assistant will be tested.
This will be the first step for the implementation of the remote virtual crew mission assistant to be embedded into C3 framework and constituting the “facility” side of the ubiquitous computing environment that will supports the crew at any time and place during their simulated missions to Mars.

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