A Novel Method for Characterizing Spacesuit Mobility Through Metabolic Cost
| dc.creator | McFarland, Shane M. | |
| dc.creator | Norcross, Jason R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-23T13:50:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-10-23T13:50:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-07-13 | |
| dc.description | Tucson, Arizona | |
| dc.description | The 44th International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Tuscon, Arizona, USA on 13 July 2014 through 17 July 2014. | |
| dc.description | Shane M McFarland, Wyle/NASA-Johnson Space Center, USA | |
| dc.description | Jason R. Norcross, Wyle/NASA-Johnson Space Center, USA | |
| dc.description.abstract | Historically, spacesuit mobility has been characterized by directly measuring both range of motion and joint torque of individual anatomic joints. The work detailed herein aims to improve on this method, which is often prone to uncertainly, lack of repeatability, and a general lack of applicability to real-world functional tasks. Specifically, the goal of this work is to characterize suited mobility performance by directly measuring the metabolic performance of the occupant. Pilot testing was conducted in 2013, employing three subjects performing a range of functional tasks in two different suits prototypes, the Mark III and Z-1. Cursory analysis of the results shows the approach has merit, with consistent performance trends toward one suit over the other. Forward work includes the need to look at more subjects, a refined task set, and another suit in a different mass/mobility regime to validate the approach. | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-692-38220-2 | |
| dc.identifier.other | ICES-2014-007 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2346/59754 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | 44th International Conference on Environmental Systems | en_US |
| dc.title | A Novel Method for Characterizing Spacesuit Mobility Through Metabolic Cost | en_US |
| dc.type | Presentation | en_US |