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A novel method for characterizing spacesuit mobility through metabolic cost
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Norcross, Jason R. McFarland, Shane M. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | 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. |
| File Size | 1263011 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20140009568 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t22c4151d |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2014-07-13 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Costs Torque Refining Prototypes Mobility Space Suits Trends Anatomy Metabolism Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
