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.

The Project is mainly solving the sleep issues for the astronaut with a watch makes many functions.

Summary

One important problem astronauts are facing today is sleep regulation. Our solution is to make a smartwatch that is capable of creating a detailed work/rest schedule according to launching and landing time, mission objectives, exercises, nutrition, crew number, and shift mode. The solution will be built using Arduino, which is connected to a Wi-Fi chip that would make it easier to control some operations on the space ship remotely.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our solution is to develop a smart watch that is capable of scheduling the daily objectives for the mission and the astronaut's needs of nutrition, exercises, and sleep. The project addresses the challenge in developing autonomous customization of a schedule for sleep, exercise, and nutrition to manage fatigue for the astronauts.

How We Developed This Project

We saw that this problem is common for all the astronauts moreover, we were so exited to work on this problem a generate a good solution for this problem. After we had found an idea for this problem and the solution is to make a watch. We are dreaming to convert this watch to a real one like apple watch or Samsung watches to not to be just a prototype. We used C++ as a programing language, ESP8266,OLED 1306,4 buttons, PCB board 30x30,Buzzer,Vibration motor, Lipo battery, Battery charger chip,4 transistors, 5 resistors, RTC module

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We used them to know the prior solutions for the same problem in addition, we search about the factors of sleep disturbs on this websites. For Instance, FCL Agency.

Project Demo

One important problem astronauts are facing today is sleep regulation. Astronauts must have the sufficient amount of sleeping in order to be able to carry out the mission objectives. Our solution is to make a smart watch that is capable of creating a detailed work/rest schedule according launching and landing time, mission objectives, exercises, nutrition, crew number, and shift mode. The solution will be built using Arduino, which is connected to a Wi-Fi chip that would make it easier to control some operations on the space ship remotely. The watch will have the ability to make the detailed schedule with capability of re-scheduling in case of anything goes wrong, whether it was waking up in the middle of the night to drink some water or sleep disturbs.

Data & Resources

https://hsi.arc.nasa.gov/groups/fatigue/projects/extreme_spo.php


https://hsi.arc.nasa.gov/groups/fatigue/projects/sleep_lighting.php


https://hsi.arc.nasa.gov/groups/fatigue/projects/evaluation_models.php


https://www.nasa.gov/ames/fatigue-countermeasures


https://blogs.esa.int/thomas-pesquet/2017/01/16/weightlessness-work-sleep-the-routine-of-an-astronaut/#:~:text=The%20astronauts%20work%20and%20sleep,the%20sunlight%20during%20their%20sleep.


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/space_nutrition_book.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiLmbHSupnsAhXo1uAKHdAqB6IQFjABegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw3AJsKmvT3kSDlVZPaJAaaO&cshid=1601763722803


https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/stem-on-station/ditl_sleeping/#:~:text=Generally%2C%20astronauts%20are%20scheduled%20for,and%20look%20out%20the%20window.


https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/astronauts_improve_sleep/