Equipo Alfa | Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool

Sleep Shift Scheduling Tool

Sleep loss and fatigue may lead to reduced performance and an increased risk to safety during many activities, including spaceflight. Your challenge is to develop an operational sleep shift scheduling tool that provides autonomous customization of a schedule for sleep, exercise, and nutrition to manage fatigue.

We have a dream

Summary

We want to develop a tool or application that helps astronauts to have a more bearable stay in space by a comprehensive system capable of taking care of the basic needs of an astronaut in order to maintain optimal health to ensure their stay in space and prepare them for their return to earth.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project addresses the problem using a system capable of training the astronaut how to solve and maintain ideal health in space, this through a constant analysis of vital signs, who will dictate what action to take to take care of diet, exercise or the dream.

How We Developed This Project

The project was developed with the planning and advancement of a comprehensive system capable of achieving the aforementioned objectives. In the program, a structure capable of interpreting the received variables was created to determine the main actions to be taken to correct the problem. A program for data analysis and a program for capturing the necessary information through sensors was created. A graphical interface for the astronaut was also developed, which is personalized and focused on being friendly and understandable for any user.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We use data from NASA on caloric intake and food portions consumed by astronauts, to create a balance index according to sleep conditions, lean mass, total mass, among other parameters; in order to maintain the health of our astronauts.

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Data & Resources
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Tags
#Biomedical #NASA #UACH #Astronauts #SpacialStation #HealthCare
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.