Crew's Service of the Virtual Integrated Regenerative Life- Support System Operation: 105-Day Experiment Results under Mars-500 Project

摘要

The main purpose of the 105-day experiment, which has been conducted during from March, 31st till July, 14th 2009 on the IMBP experimental complex, is obtaining and analysis of scientific/technical information for optimal organization of preparation and efficient conduction of the main experiment simulating all the stages of a manned flight to Mars. Actual participation of test subjects in maintenance of standard systems in first stages of space flight ground simulation to Mars is extremely difficult and economically unprofitable. More rational approach is to use virtual simulators of actual systems supplemented with simulation models of environment and crew components as a load component integrated in a unified Hardware/Software Complex of Crew's Service of System Operation (HSCCSSO), which is intended for simulation of system functioning in normal, off-normal and emergency situations due to failure of about systems and value deviations of monitor environmental parameters from present ones. The purpose of this paper is to examine HSCCSSO application results taking into consideration the key of the future mission to Mars (extremely long duration, autonomy, complicated communication peculiarities with the ground Mission Control Center because of signal delay, and limited stock of expendables). The structure, the description of the basic functions of the complex and results received at conducting out of 105-day experiment are brought. The special attention is given to an estimation of efficiency of the crew's actions at localization of the generated off-normal situations in functioning systems and deviations of controllable parameters of an inhabitancy from preset values.