Our project addresses the challenge of developing a sleep scheduling tool that provides autonomous customisation of a schedule which includes sleep, exercise and meal times. It does this by taking into account research on the ideal amount of sleep and exercise for astronauts, while also considering the preferences and status of the astronauts themselves. For example, astronauts need at least eight hours of sleep a night, and so the schedule will allot time for eight hours of sleep, but it will allot this time as close to the astronaut’s normal sleeping time as possible. If the astronaut is feeling more tired than usual during a specific day, the astronaut can input this data into the tool using the daily monitoring questions. The tool will then set aside more time for sleep that day for the astronaut. To attempt to combat circadian desynchronisation, the tool will also schedule the astronaut’s daily eight hours of sleep at the same time each day, as far as possible. This will help to prevent the body’s internal clock being disrupted, and therefore causing the astronaut increased fatigue. The tool will also attempt to schedule the same activities before sleep every day, so that the astronaut’s routine before bed is the same, which will also help prevent circadian desynchronisation. As well as scheduling the astronaut's sleep, the tool will also allot time for three meals a day, and for a daily two hours of exercise to help prevent bone and muscle loss, which occurs more easily while travelling through space. Mission control can also input the tasks each astronaut needs to complete into the tool, which will then allocate time for each astronaut to do them. Based on the astronaut's answers to the daily monitoring questions, the tool will also output health advice, such as if the astronaut did not get much sleep the night before, the tool will suggest they try wearing light blocking glasses the next night.

Our tool will benefit future space flight and ground operations by providing an easily customisable daily timetable for each astronaut, and allowing mission control to use it to set astronauts tasks that are vital to further research and to ensure the continued functioning of their space crafts. Because the tool encompasses sleep, nutrition, exercise and work, it is more functional than other tools available because everything important to an astronaut’s daily life is in one place. The daily monitoring questions each astronaut answers also make sure that their timetable is suitable for them individually, and can be changed if it is not appropriate, as well as giving the astronauts access to basic health advice at all times.