Calendar

This calendar reflects the comprehensive schedule for the course, including lectures, readings, assignments, and even links for further exploration.

COURSE BLOCK # LECTURES READINGS, REFERENCES, AND LINKS REMINDERS
1

Background

  • Course outline
  • Astronaut Performance
  • Space Station research and Mars mission (overviews)
  • Textbook of Medical Physiology Handout
  • ISS Research (PDF - 2.8 MB)
  • Human Exploration of Mars: Reference
    Mission and Considerations
  • Reading Assignments
  • Self-assessment form (PDF)
2

Exploration in Extreme Environments

  • ICE
  • Long-duration flight
  • Bold Endeavors
  • Stuster, J., C. Bachelard, and P. Suedfeld.
    "The relative importance of behavioural issues
    during long-duration ICE missions." Aviat.
    Space Env. Med.
    (September 2000): A17-A25.
  • Brubakk, A. "Man in Extreme Environments."
    Aviat. Space Env. Med. (September 2000): A126-A130.
  • Stuster, J. "Bold Endeavors: Behavioral Lessons from
    Polar and Space Exploration." Grav. Space Bio Bulletin
    13(2) (June 2000).
3

Extreme Environments (cont.)

  • Antarctica
  • Siberia
  • Mars
4

Life on Mars?

  • Antarctica
  • Siberia
  • Mars
5 Tutorial Offered
  • Saleh, Joseph. "Introduction to Matlab and Simulink." (1998)
E53-220
6 NASA EVA & Life Support
7

Bone Changes in Space

  • Literature
  • Definitions
  • Failure analysis
  • Fracture risk
  • Curved beam model
  • Material properties
  • Introduction to Skeletal Effects of Space Flight
  • Newman/Schaffner presentation
  • Bone Modeling assignment handed out (PDF)

    (HW#1)
8

Modeling Space Flight Alterations

  • Moment of inertia
  • Density (Modulus)
  • Muscle force effects on bone stress
  • Countermeasures
  • Technology (flight DXA)
  • Beck, T. J., F. A. Mourtada, et al. "Experimental Testing of a DEXA-Derived Curved Beam model of the Proximal Femur." Journal of Orthopaedic Research 16(3) (1998): 394-398.
  • Beck, T. J., C. B. Ruff, et al. "Predicting Femoral Neck Strength from Bone Mineral Data: A Structural Approach." Investigative Radiology 25(1) (1990): 6-18.
9

Mechanical Models

  • Space Flight Changes
  • Muscle Model
  • Tension-Length Curves
  • Force-Velocity Curves
  • Muscle Spindle and Stretch Reflexes
  • Saleh, Joseph. "Sarcomere, twitch and isometric tension-length relation: mathematical models and implications." (2000): 34 pages.
  • HW#1 Due (PDF)
  • Muscle assignment handed out (PDF)

    (HW#2)
10

Multibody Kinematics

  • Coordinate Transformations
  • Differential Relationships

Multibody Dynamics

  • Lagrangian Formulation
  • Dynamic Simulation
11

Biomechanical Control

  • Impedance / PID Control
  • Adaptive Control
  • Optimal Control
  • Muscle assignment due (PDF)

    (HW#2 Due)
Quiz 1 Quiz Solutions (PDF)
12

Cardiovascular Mechanics I

  • Models of the peripheral circulation
  • The heart as a pump
  • Modeling of the intact system
  • Mark, Roger G., and Roger D. Kamm. "Quantitative Physiology: Organ Transport Systems." Class Notes on Cardiovascular Mechanics (I, II, III) (2000).
  • Chapters: 21, 23, and 26 in Berne and Levy, Physiology.
13

Cardiovascular Control

  • Intrinsic regulation
  • Extrinsic application
  • Mark, Roger G., and Roger D. Kamm. "Quantitative Physiology: Organ Transport Systems." Class Notes on Control and Integration in the Cardiovascular System (2000).
  • Chapter: 28 in Berne and Levy, Physiology.
  • Cardio assignment handed out (PDF)(HW#3)
  • Ongoing Self-assessment (PDF)
14

Cardiovascular Simulation

  • Modeling space flight changes
  • Countermeasures
  • Spaceflight and the Cardiovascular Simulator (PDF - 2.7 MB)
  • Self-assessment due
Design Day
  • Term Projects, Spacercise! student project 2002
Cardio assignment due (PDF)

(HW#3 Due)
15

Countermeasures

  • Visual Reorientation
  • Illusions and Spatial Memory
  • Artificial Gravity
  • VR lab (PDF - 1.5 MB) and Artificial Gravity (PDF) demonstrations
  • Brief discussion by Erika Brown/Jessica Marquez on Spacercise!
Neurovestibular assignment handed out (PDF)

(HW#4)
16

Neurovestibular Problems in Aviation and Space

  • Illusions and Disorientation
  • Space motion sickness
  • Lathan, Corinna E., and Gilles Clement. "Fundamentals of Space Life Sciences." Response of the Neurovestibular System to Spaceflight: Chap. 5, 65-82.
  • Oman, Charles M. "Motion sickness: a synthesis and evaluation of the sensory conflict theory." Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (1988): 10 pages.
17

Models for Sensory Interaction

  • Eye movements, Postural Reflex Pathways
  • Observer Model for Velocity Storage in VO
Neurovestibular book chapter and separate figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8)
18 Vision and Orientation
  • Term Projects
Design Day
19

EVA I: Operations

  • Hubble EVA
  • Space Shuttle EVA
  • EVA presentation given by Ed Hodgson, Hamilton Sunstrand (PDF)
  • Newman, Dava, and Michael Barratt. "Fundamentals of Space Life Sciences." Life Support and Performance Issues for Extravehicular Activity: Chap. 22, 337-364. (PDF)
Design Day
  • Term Projects
20

EVA II: Research

  • Suit Modeling
  • Robotics
  • Future Design
Design Project
Student Term Presentations
Design Project
  • Student Term Presentations
  • Quiz 2-Take Home
Design Project
No Lecture
Quiz 2 due
  • Final Self-assessment form (PDF)