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Solicitation / Funding Source: 2023 HERO NNJ23ZSA001N-OMNIBUS : NASA Human Research Program Omnibus Opportunity
Grant/Contract No.: 80NSSC24K0442
Project Type: GROUND
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| Human Research Program Elements: |
None
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| Human Research Program Risks: |
(1) Team:Risk of Performance and Behavioral Health Decrements Due to Inadequate Cooperation, Coordination, Communication, and Psychosocial Adaptation within a Team
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| Human Research Program Gaps: |
(1) Team-101:We need to understand the key threats, indicators, and evolution of the team throughout its life cycle for shifting autonomy and interface with automation in increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.
(2) Team-104:We need to identify validated ground-based and in-flight training methods for both preparatory and sustaining team function during shifting autonomy in increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.
(3) Team-105:We need to identify a set of countermeasures to support team function and enable multiple distributed teams to manage shifting levels of autonomy for all phases of increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.
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| Flight Assignment/Project Notes: |
NOTE: Period of performance changed from initial award. Original start date: 11/17/2023. Original end date: 11/16/2024. New start and end dates changed per NSSC information (Ed., 2/4/2024). |
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| Task Description: |
Space-ground collaboration during Artemis and other long missions will continue to be a requirement, given the complexity of space missions and unforeseen events threatening mission safety and success. It is important that crewmembers and mission support on Earth have a common understanding of crew autonomy and operational constraints, and employ a fluid approach to crew autonomy in areas such as the scheduling of tasks and activities. Crew self-scheduling is an integral component of crew autonomy and can serve as a proxy for other autonomy concerns and provide insights that can be applied to other components of autonomy, as it embodies characteristics that may cause friction between space crews and ground, undermine the accuracy of space-ground shared mental models, and negatively impact space-ground collaboration.
AIMS of the proposed work are to identify areas of contention in scheduling or where communication concerning scheduling may not be effective, and provide recommendations for how scheduling, as well as other aspects of autonomy could be negotiated and managed in a communication or decision support tool.
A review of autonomy issues in space operations, supplemented by selective data on crew autonomy and scheduling from the NASA Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) and the NASA Scientific International Research In a Unique terrestrial Station (SIRIUS), will deliver: identification of problematic aspects of operational autonomy in space, with particular focus on Artemis; recommendations for how scheduling of tasks and activities can be negotiated, and best practices for managing shifting responsibilities; and definition of required features and parameters for a schedule negotiator technology function with feedback from selected subject matter experts.
SIGNIFICANCE of the proposed effort relates to its potential to facilitate collaboration and shared mental models among multi-team system members during Artemis and other long-term space operations. Successful scheduling negotiation is critical to mission success, and solutions will provide insight for other potentially disruptive autonomy elements. |
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| Research Impact/Earth Benefits: |
SIGNIFICANCE of the proposed effort relates to its potential to facilitate collaboration and shared mental models among space/ground multiteam system (MTS) members during Artemis and other long-term autonomous space crew operations. Successful negotiation of task and activity scheduling is critical to mission success and solutions will provide insight for other potentially disruptive autonomy elements. |
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