How does our project address the challenge?

What is it?

This is a robot prototype that moves through the cockpits of the ISS, is spherically, small and therefore light, is a tool created with the purpose of being an alarm and a personal registration agenda of astronauts who are on the International Space Station, this prototype autonomous robot is designed to have the functions of an app that encompasses the aspects of sleep, feeding and exercise. The robot will be programmed to follow each of the astronauts by facial recognition and give them voice instructions of the optimal hours when they must perform their activities and when have to stop doing them, it can also receive and save information that astronauts given by voice command, it will also be concomitant to technology already used, as it will be a LED system regulator that modulates the color light that is required for a good operation of the circadian cycle, in addition to being in sync with a smartwatch that will take vital signs of the astronaut. The prototype of the application will also be functional for people on Earth.

Why is it important?

We know well that living beings are fully adapted to planet Earth, from the moment a person crosses the Karman line his body begins to feel totally different, the challenge of living in a completely abnormal environment for human physiology has brought with it advances in science and technology, trying to think, how to provide ideas or tools to keep our physiology stable on Earth and anywhere in the universe has led us to create a personal assistant for astronauts, that's how Astro ESS was born, as an impulse for the human to better adapt to other environments. In addition to this we take the tools and applications already established by having the robot perform them saving the time that astronauts take to manipulate them, managing to make some improvements to provide to provide a perfect schedule that regulates the circadian cycle of people, and same way, make these tools functional both in space and on Earth, extending the care of astronauts before takeoff and once they return to planet Earth. [11]

What's he doing? And How does it work?

This small robot, circularly integrated with turbines, fans and sensors, this mechanism will be autonomous, so it will not disturb astronauts in their activities, even charge their own battery. [17] This prototype will be designed to fly freely using a compressed air system that will feed off the station's air, as well as having facial recognition which will give you the ability to recognize and follow each of the ISS astronauts, It will govern as an alarm when going to the corresponding astronaut and telling you by a voice command at the optimal and accurate time the activity you have to perform and also when you have to stop doing it, being concomitant to your records in the app that cover aspects of sleep, exercise and power, the robot will have a screen on the front where the interface of the app is viewed, and so easily the astronauts will be able to access your data when they require it. [15] [16] [18] [20]

Based on data from NASA's human research roadmap [2] as well as current background information and research on sleep decline and application information already in use, such as ISS-FIT, we use the following approaches: [1.12]

Points:

1.- The robot will have the skills of an app, which will encompass aspects of sleep, feeding, and exercise, as well as a part of psychological help.

App concept:

Demo: The interface will be displayed where some data such as name, age, gender and the more people will travel on the same mission will be entered. And finally, facial recognition will be done.

The Start my plan, section will organize a plan suitable for mission members coupled with data collected on the first days of adaptation in order to provide a good sleep, feeding and exercise schedule. This data will be entered by voice command to the robot.

Schedules will cover 3 aspects: sleep, food and training. It should be emphasized that schedules are accommodated depending on the crew's activities, i.e. if they have to return to Earth, the schedules will already be set to make everything work perfectly. On the other hand, these schedules are already linked to the robot, so it will notify them, in addition, the prototype will be monitoring the astronauts to gather information, from what you eat a day, to if you had a good sleep. You will be able to report everything that has happened to you, if I bother you a light, you could not sleep, the training seemed very heavy or light, the food was insufficient, etc. This will help to continue to gather more information and provide you with a better plan. It will also display a tips window to solve the complications you've come to have while providing psychological help tips, answering questions like: How to avoid stress or anxiety? Of course, if the astronaut or person requires it and requests it (since tiredness is not only physical, but also psychological).

In the My plan section you can select aspects of sleep, diet or training, which will send you specific data from that section such as: if your sleep was deep, how long, the calories you consumed, proteins, how many calories you burned, etc. with which you will know your performance during the mission, in addition to giving you recommendations, for example, the different time zones from where you are, if you need a medication especially at what time it would be better to take it, improve the diet, slow down.

Very important not to forget, that all this will be known by the robot, so he will notify you of every activity that you have to perform, mention the most important tips, if a problem arises and you must check it, how your performance in the activities was, etc.

(To display the entire interface, see demo)

2.- Concomitant to the functions of the app will work as an alarm, which will tell astronauts the hours when they have to feed, exercise, and sleep. For example; the robot will go to the astronaut and say: in 5 minutes your time to eat ends, or in 10 minutes start your exercise routine or it's time to wake up.

3.- The robot will be synchronized to a smartwatch that will measure pulse, heart rate and temperature, in addition it will detect seizures. The robot will store the information in the app to provide better schedules, in addition if receiving the data from the smartwatch and finding some serious anomaly, the robot will go to warn any of your companions if you are in a booth other than theirs

4.- It will be synchronized to the LED system with which the cabins already have, taking care of regulating the light intensity and color, thus improving the alertness or promoting the sleep of the astronauts. [6.10]

5.- It will function as an agenda and personal records tool, in which the astronaut can tell it, for example, what he ate in the day, as was his experience when sleeping, if he is tired during the day, etc, and thus the robot will save the data and graph them to be able to provide a more specific schedule.

6.- Both nasa astronaut and Earth base will have access, whenever they want, to their daily data in the form of graphs and also consult tips to improve what happens to them.

What do you hope to achieve?

With the data that the robot will gather, the astronauts' day-to-day information will be more accessible, we hope that the human body will adapt a little more to the state of microgravity, to begin preparing for interplanetary journeys where there will be zero gravity, we understand the challenges of off-earth physiology, we hope to control a little more the changes that human physiology might have.