Presented By: Aerospace Engineering
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Understanding Human Performance During Extravehicular Activity
Allison Anderson
Assistant Professor
Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder
The future of human spaceflight will send people away from the Earth for longer durations to explore the surface of the moon or Mars. Extravehicular Activity (EVA) will be a critical component of these missions, necessitating advances in spacesuit technology to support elevated human performance. As crews become increasingly autonomous from an Earth-based mission control, human-autonomy interaction and associated decision support tools will also be a critical element. This talk will discuss our research on novel spacesuit architectures and wearable sensors to minimize restricted mobility and injuries during EVA. It will also discuss our work to assess operator workload and situation awareness to enable adaptive autonomy that mitigates the impact of high-risk, strenuous activities. While this research is focused on individuals in extreme environments, it also has direct implications for patient populations here on Earth.
About the speaker...
Dr. Anderson graduated in 2007 with a B.S. in Astronautics Engineering from the University of Southern California with a minor in Astronomy. She received an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.S. in Technology Policy in 2011 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Biomedical Engineering in 2014 from MIT. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute to study human space physiology at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado – Boulder Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences an Adjunct Professor in Integrative Physiology, and an affiliated faculty member in the Biomedical Engineering program. Her work focuses on aerospace biomedical engineering, spacesuit design, wearable sensors, spacecraft habitat design, alternative reality technologies, and human physiology in extreme environments. Specifically, her work is directed toward enabling a human mission to Mars.
Assistant Professor
Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder
The future of human spaceflight will send people away from the Earth for longer durations to explore the surface of the moon or Mars. Extravehicular Activity (EVA) will be a critical component of these missions, necessitating advances in spacesuit technology to support elevated human performance. As crews become increasingly autonomous from an Earth-based mission control, human-autonomy interaction and associated decision support tools will also be a critical element. This talk will discuss our research on novel spacesuit architectures and wearable sensors to minimize restricted mobility and injuries during EVA. It will also discuss our work to assess operator workload and situation awareness to enable adaptive autonomy that mitigates the impact of high-risk, strenuous activities. While this research is focused on individuals in extreme environments, it also has direct implications for patient populations here on Earth.
About the speaker...
Dr. Anderson graduated in 2007 with a B.S. in Astronautics Engineering from the University of Southern California with a minor in Astronomy. She received an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.S. in Technology Policy in 2011 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Biomedical Engineering in 2014 from MIT. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute to study human space physiology at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado – Boulder Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences an Adjunct Professor in Integrative Physiology, and an affiliated faculty member in the Biomedical Engineering program. Her work focuses on aerospace biomedical engineering, spacesuit design, wearable sensors, spacecraft habitat design, alternative reality technologies, and human physiology in extreme environments. Specifically, her work is directed toward enabling a human mission to Mars.
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