The Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for space habitation and exploration
The “Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for Space Habitation and Exploration” is a novel system concept that provides a platform for integrating sensors and actuators with daily astronaut intravehicular activities to improve health and performance, while reducing the mass and volume of the...
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| author | Duda, Kevin R. Vasquez, Rebecca A. Middleton, Akil J. Hansberry, Mitchell L. Jacobs, Shane E. West, John J. Newman, Dava |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
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| description | The “Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for Space Habitation and Exploration” is a novel system concept that provides a platform for integrating sensors and actuators with daily astronaut intravehicular activities to improve health and performance, while reducing the mass and volume of the physiologic adaptation countermeasure systems, as well as the required exercise time during long-duration space exploration missions. The V2Suit system leverages wearable kinematic monitoring technology and uses inertial measurement units (IMUs) and control moment gyroscopes (CMGs) within miniaturized modules placed on body segments to provide a “viscous resistance” during movements against a specified direction of “down”—initially as a countermeasure to the sensorimotor adaptation performance decrements that manifest themselves while living and working in microgravity and during gravitational transitions during long-duration spaceflight, including post-flight recovery and rehabilitation. Several aspects of the V2Suit system concept were explored and simulated prior to developing a brassboard prototype for technology demonstration. This included a system architecture for identifying the key components and their interconnects, initial identification of key human-system integration challenges, development of a simulation architecture for CMG selection and parameter sizing, and the detailed mechanical design and fabrication of a module. The brassboard prototype demonstrates closed-loop control from “down” initialization through CMG actuation, and provides a research platform for human performance evaluations to mitigate sensorimotor adaptation, as well as a tool for determining the performance requirements when used as a musculoskeletal deconditioning countermeasure. This type of countermeasure system also has Earth benefits, particularly in gait or movement stabilization and rehabilitation. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/970662022-10-01T13:47:09Z The Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for space habitation and exploration Duda, Kevin R. Vasquez, Rebecca A. Middleton, Akil J. Hansberry, Mitchell L. Jacobs, Shane E. West, John J. Newman, Dava Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Newman, Dava The “Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for Space Habitation and Exploration” is a novel system concept that provides a platform for integrating sensors and actuators with daily astronaut intravehicular activities to improve health and performance, while reducing the mass and volume of the physiologic adaptation countermeasure systems, as well as the required exercise time during long-duration space exploration missions. The V2Suit system leverages wearable kinematic monitoring technology and uses inertial measurement units (IMUs) and control moment gyroscopes (CMGs) within miniaturized modules placed on body segments to provide a “viscous resistance” during movements against a specified direction of “down”—initially as a countermeasure to the sensorimotor adaptation performance decrements that manifest themselves while living and working in microgravity and during gravitational transitions during long-duration spaceflight, including post-flight recovery and rehabilitation. Several aspects of the V2Suit system concept were explored and simulated prior to developing a brassboard prototype for technology demonstration. This included a system architecture for identifying the key components and their interconnects, initial identification of key human-system integration challenges, development of a simulation architecture for CMG selection and parameter sizing, and the detailed mechanical design and fabrication of a module. The brassboard prototype demonstrates closed-loop control from “down” initialization through CMG actuation, and provides a research platform for human performance evaluations to mitigate sensorimotor adaptation, as well as a tool for determining the performance requirements when used as a musculoskeletal deconditioning countermeasure. This type of countermeasure system also has Earth benefits, particularly in gait or movement stabilization and rehabilitation. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Innovative Advanced Concepts Grant NNX11AR25G) United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Innovative Advanced Concepts Grant NNX12AQ58G) 2015-05-26T12:35:01Z 2015-05-26T12:35:01Z 2015-04 2015-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1662-5137 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97066 Duda, Kevin R., Rebecca A. Vasquez, Akil J. Middleton, Mitchell L. Hansberry, Dava J. Newman, Shane E. Jacobs, and John J. West. “The Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for Space Habitation and Exploration.” Front. Syst. Neurosci. 9 (April 10, 2015). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6190-348X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2015.00055 Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Frontiers Research Foundation Frontiers Research Foundation |
| spellingShingle | Duda, Kevin R. Vasquez, Rebecca A. Middleton, Akil J. Hansberry, Mitchell L. Jacobs, Shane E. West, John J. Newman, Dava The Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for space habitation and exploration |
| title | The Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for space habitation and exploration |
| title_full | The Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for space habitation and exploration |
| title_fullStr | The Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for space habitation and exploration |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for space habitation and exploration |
| title_short | The Variable Vector Countermeasure Suit (V2Suit) for space habitation and exploration |
| title_sort | variable vector countermeasure suit v2suit for space habitation and exploration |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97066 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6190-348X |
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