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• Description of detailled assignments
  • Description of assignment for Automatic Dispenser AI 6 DUK

make more clear that is a device close to the body or implanted

• • Description of assignment for measuring surface myography -Name responsible person VNTU
  • Description of assignment for exoskeleton AI 8 DUK
  • Description of assignment for monitoring system AI 9 DSEA
  • Device for passenger guidance AI 10 BIU
    • There is already a detailed description of the assignment, is that not enough?
• TODO: make XLS for filling the priorities

Overview

After your presentation about yourself we are setting up teams for the individual assignments. Each team consists of students from 3 nationalities from Ukraine, Israel and one country from Europe. You will be introduced to your team members during this session.

In order to anticipate your wishes and use the strengths of your team, we will follow the following process for giving the assignments:

• Assignments are presented in the general auditorium (10 minutes)
• Each group discusses the assignments and setup a list ordered by their groups priority (10 minutes)
• Each group sends a list of assignments with there priority such as Priority 1 assignment 2, Priority 2 assignment 4,... to bioart-summerschool@iiss.at and post it to the chat of this session
• We compare the priority lists and select the assignment that their is a fair priority distribution between the groups. (10 minutes)

Our experience showed that this is the best way ... and also mind that the most challenging but also rewarding tasks in live are the ones which come unexpected.

General assignment for online contest

Commercial space flight isn't the luxury for billionaires anymore. A roundtrip to moon and back becomes affordable for many persons, 10 space hotels are orbiting earth and interplanetary travel is on the brink of become real. Yet due to the increasing number of space tourists also medical emergencies increased in space - recently a space tourist even died, since he cannot receive treatment with a specialized medical device.

UN Space Regulation Agency, ESA and NASA are therefore demanding that tourist space ships and space complexes need to be equipped with a well-defined set of materials and a small 3D-printer to create bio-artificial implants or external prosthesis to safe passengers on board during this week trip through space.

The main commercial space operators are therefore inviting start-ups and university teams to attend a contest "10 minutes, 10 millions" to find clever ideas what medical devices to solve the following medical emergencies:

A preliminary list of material is defined, yet you have the chance to place two extra, specialized parts on the list. Mind that weight is crucial and small sized, light parts are preferred and give extra points in the evaluation.

What are the limiting factors of your mission? (Requirements)

• The implant/prosthesis needs to build with the materials available on board. Only the following materials and manufacturing technologies are available.

• An electronic sensor + controller needs be used to enable monitoring the functionality of the device or on patient data.

• Functionality is the primary goal, but also think about the astronaut to wear this device. It needs to be comfortable and also design should not be neglected. Do you want to be call a disgusting BORG or a cool looking superman?

• All disciplines need to work together to achieve a device that helps the astronaut and which is proudly worn by him.

Assignment 1: Information and measuring system for monitoring the biometric indicators of a passenger

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List of required materials that should be on the material list:
Main supervisor/mentor of this group:
TODO DSEA

Main supervisor of this group:

Assignment 2: Device for measuring surface electromyography of the hand and stimulation muscle tension

During the space journey, someone injured a hand and it is out of functioning. What the team need is to check the propagation of nerve impulses in the limb and find the muscles that do not contract. So, they need a myograph that can measure the electrical potentials from the surface of the skin using metal electrodes. Then, in order to avoid muscle degradation, it should be stimulated from time to time, so you need to design a device to periodically maintain muscle tension. It can use the same electrodes, so the device has to provide two modes: measurement and stimulation. Please, think about how to attach electrodes to the limb. What electrode shape may be optimal? What information must be displayed? Also, you should provide safety during the stimulation process.

List of required materials that should be on the material list:
- metal electrodes and wires - amplifying units - signal processing unit (like microcontroller) - information storage drive or connector to the on-board computer - display - power supply - plastic case for the device

Main supervisor/mentor of this group:

TODO VNTU

Assignment 3: Wearable or implantable automatic dispenser for drugs to provide drugs

Automatic dispenser for drugs to cope with a virus spreading across the space ship

Dispite all medical checks before start austronauts suffer from a COVID-like desease and will not be able to descent to Mars if not cured properly. Doctors found out that a medicine on board can relieve symptoms but need to be given every 5 minutes in very small dosis. You need to design an automatic dispenser pumping the medicine in the cardio-vascular system depending on the body temperature of the astronaut. Design an automatic synringe set, a bracelet and a tool for remote supervison.

List of required materials that should be on the material list:
Main supervisor/mentor of this group:

TODO DUK

Assignment 4: Exoskeleton for hurt elbow to allow the injured passenger to participate in the necessary routines

A passenger got badly injured on the elbow and broke a bone in it. Since space travels take some time, a quick fix is necessary, as the nearest medical hospital can be days, weeks or even months away. As in space you mostly need your both hands to grasp things to navigate through the space-station or other spacecaft in a state of micro-gravity, it is important that the passenger gets an hardware aid to fix his broken elbow and still be able to move around with it. An exoskeleton will help to stabilize the arm and provide enough extra strength to the patient to put force on it to navigate in a controlled manner. A minimum requirement for moving the device is the possibility to rotate in the plane between upper and lower arm. The arm should be locked in place on the skeleton to avoid movement and ensure the bone is in place to grow together. Another requirement is to provide sensors (to trace and count movements, heartbeat.. ) of the patient via the exoskeleton so the medical team in the ground station can monitor the patient’s condition and can advise on extra measures and therapy.

List of required materials that should be on the material list:
Main supervisor/mentor of this group:

TODO KUL

Assignment 5: A device to guide a passanger with disabled vision through the space ship

During a maintenance job in the spacecraft an astronauts’ eyes got sprayed with a greasing fluid. The effect is that the astronaut is left temporarily without a clear vision. The astronaut can still detect color and light but has no detailed view of the surroundings. As the team cannot afford to lose a valuable collaborator because of all the tasks which need to be performed, they work on a device to help their colleague regain a way to navigate through the spacecraft. So a wearable aid for the colleague that helps detect objects and generates visual feedback to control navigation in the known surroundings on the inner part of the spacecraft could be a solution. As color and light is still detected, a method with colored mapped dots could be a solution.

List of required materials that should be on the material list
Main supervisor/mentor of this group:
TODO BIU