{"id":22184,"date":"2020-07-12T19:25:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T23:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22184"},"modified":"2020-07-12T19:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T23:25:16","slug":"igluna-2020-student-teams-present-space-habitat-with-remote-ops-design-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22184","title":{"rendered":"IGLUNA 2020: Student teams present “space habitat with remote ops” design studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swiss Space Center<\/a> is sponsoring the IGLUNA<\/a> program in which student teams<\/a> compete to create technologies for extreme environments:<\/p>\n

IGLUNA is aimed at supporting and accelerating the ESA_Lab@ initiative<\/a>. The Swiss Space Center coordinates IGLUNA project and leads the main systems engineering activities, coaches the students teams, organises the events, and communicates to the general public.<\/em><\/p>\n

IGLUNA is emulating European students and foster exchange through an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative platform for demonstration of space technologies.<\/em><\/p>\n

During the project, university students apply their knowledge to solve a technical challenge, to sustain life in an extreme environment, increasing in parallel the maturity of technologies relevant to the space domain.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>During July 10-19, 15 international student teams are presenting their projects that dealt with the goal of developing \u201cA space habitat with remote operations<\/em><\/strong>\u201d. The presentations are in a online format called the Virtual Field Campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The objectives of the campaign are to bring together the student projects, test them in an extreme environment, and present them to the other student teams, external experts and the general public.<\/em><\/p>\n

Due to the Covid-19 crisis, the initially planned Field Campaign with an exhibition and control room at Verkehrshaus \u2013 Swiss Museum of Transport and a test bed on the top of Mount Pilatus in Lucerne will not be able to take place physically this summer. In spite of the current restrictions and as real space missions that have limited resources, we aim to do the best we can to ensure a proper project closure together with all involved partners.<\/em><\/p>\n

Keeping the same dates 10-19 July, the Field Campaign will take place virtually, where all the student teams will connect from their countries to present their projects and hard work to the rest of the world. The project shows and additional space experts presentations will be live-streamed and publicly available.<\/em><\/p>\n

The presentations can be viewed at Swiss Space Center – YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The team projects are\u00a0 described in this brochure: 15 international student teams will present their projects on the topic \u201cA space habitat with remote operations\u201d (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n

For example, the team P02 GrowBotHub<\/a><\/p>\n

aims to do a fully automated system of growth and harvest of vegetables. To do so, a machine learning algorithm determines when the vegetables are ready to be collected, then a carousel brings the vegetables in front of a robot that picks-up the vegetables and replace them with a new seed so they can start growing again. All these actions and messages are controlled by a top-level controller. The vegetables are grown using an aeroponic system which allows to reduce water and energy consumption compared to other techniques.<\/em><\/p>\n

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IGLUNA team PO2-GrowBotHub designed a fully automated system of growth and harvest of vegetables<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The GrowBotHub presentation is the second in this group of three given on July 10th:<\/p>\n

P01 MELiSSA <\/span>11:56<\/a> Complete recycling system for space missions through the biological conversion of human urine for food and bio-based oxygen production thanks to a hydroponic growing unit and a photobioreactor. Melissa Foundation, Belgium<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

P02 GrowBotHub 1:27:03<\/a> Automated and autonomous structure to grow and harvest vegetables in a closed loop fashion in space. EPFL, Switzerland<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

P06 HYDRATION II 2:41:57<\/a> Heated drill system able to extract water from different surfaces such as ice, clay, sand and concrete in order to be used on Lunar ground. Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), USA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n