Date :
2020 – 2023
State of progress
In progress
Objective :
Decision support system for astronaut health
Partners :
ESA, MEDES, New Clin, Heverett Group
The CHIMS project was commissioned by ESA: its Consortium consists of MEDES (project leader), the Heverett Group and New Clin.
The aim of the project is to produce a technological demonstrator of an expert system to provide decision support for astronaut health.
The project
The CHIMS application includes the following functions:
- Provide astronauts with recommendations on how to perform activities on the station, based on their specific medical needs and preferences.
- Provide recommendations to astronauts on their food intake on the station, based on their specific medical needs, preferences and the availability of food on board.
- Provide live guidance to astronauts in the event of a medical emergency and on treatment to give to a colleague.
It was decided to build the application around an expert system. This artificial intelligence tool aims to implement the knowledge of experts (nutritionist, flight doctor, biomedical engineer, physiotherapist in our case) in a software application that will then be able to provide decision support to its users, as would these experts in their specific fields.
CHIMS is a TRL 4 technology demonstrator, intended to show its potential usefulness for crewed flights. As a reminder, nutrition and physical exercise are daily countermeasures used by astronauts to reduce the impact of microgravity on the human body. In addition, on future trips to the Moon and Mars, real-time communication with Earth will no longer be possible. CHIMS will therefore give astronauts more autonomy in managing their nutritional intake, the performance of their daily sports and also medical emergencies on board.
The project partners
- MEDES
- New Clin
- Heverett Group
MEDES’s role
MEDES is involved in the project at several levels:
- As the project leader it is in charge of coordinating the Consortium and the project.
- MEDES provides expertise in all three areas: nutrition, exercise and medical emergencies.
Drawing on its specialised state-of-the-art know-how it helped to frame the project’s scientific and technical orientation. During the development of the prototype, MEDES helped design the flight model, which will not be built during the project, and also provides part of the data used by the software via EveryWear. - MEDES is also responsible for validating the prototype, whose test campaign will be carried out in cooperation with ESA.
- Finally, MEDES will provide conclusions and recommendations for further activities.
CHIMS is a TRL 4 technology demonstrator, intended to show its potential usefulness for crewed flights. As a reminder, nutrition and physical exercise are daily countermeasures used by astronauts
CHIMS is a TRL 4 technology demonstrator, intended to show its potential usefulness for crewed flights. As a reminder, nutrition and physical exercise are daily countermeasures used by astronauts to reduce the impact of microgravity on the human body. In addition, on future trips to the Moon and Mars, real-time communication with Earth will no longer be possible. CHIMS will therefore give astronauts more autonomy when managing their nutritional intake, the performance of their daily sports and also medical emergencies on board.
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