Comprehensive Operations Management though Personnel Awareness and Surrounding Sensing (COMPASS)
Abstract
The safety, survivability, and resilience of ships and the onboard personnel is of utmost importance for the U.S. Navy. Resiliency i,s put to test during emergencies, where rapid and effective damage control and emergency response depend on the safety and performan,ce of shipboard sailors. The overarching goal of this proposed one-year ONR project is to develop and establish the technological fo,undations of an integrated, wearable, health and safety monitoring platform specifically for shipboard sailors. The integrated monit,oring platform consists of two primary systems. The first component is an elastic chest band with integrated nanocomposite sensors a,nd a low-profile wireless sensing node for monitoring sailor respiration and physical activity. Measurements of respiration and phys,ical activity of sailors onboard ships, especially during emergency response situations, can potentially reveal their neurophysiolog,ical condition and health. The second component is a metamaterial, passive,antenna tag that will change its antenna characteristics,in response to sailor environment. The metamaterials will be designed to change their physical, and thus antenna electromagnetic cha,racteristics, in response to seawater to enable the detection of sailors working or trapped in flooded ship compartments. Overall, t,his project will address the engineering challenges associated with designing and fabricating these on-body sensing systems. The tec,hnology will be primed for design optimization and extensive laboratory and human participant testing in the near future. The broade,r impact is that the wearable sensing platform will eventually feed a novel data-to-decision framework that will transform how the m,ilitary assesses, trains, protects, and manages its shipboard personnel.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 13, 2022
- Source ID
- N000142212591
Entities
People
- Kenneth J. Loh
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of California, San Diego