NICOP - A Wearable and Autonomous Stress and Fatigue Monitoring Approach for Pilots
Abstract
A Wearable and Autonomous Stress and Fatigue Monitoring Approach for Pilots:While continuous mobile health monitoring opens up new healthcare delivery mechanisms, it also creates new challenges. One of the most important challenges is to obtain relevant and meaningful health information from the continuous stream of vital signs. Automatic correlation of different vital signs is still a widely unexplored territory in which new opportunities for evaluating health of human beings are still to identify. The purpose of this project proposal is the establishment of a wearable (non-invasive) and autonomous stress and fatigue monitoring approach for pilots. The solution we envision, if implemented through a purposely-designed device, could ideally bring the power of personalized detection of unsuitable or compromised physical and mental stress conditions for operation and intervention of the US Navy or Air Force, primarily ~ albeit not exclusively, and when emergency medical assistance is required.Tasks that will be conducted as part of the research:1) Multi-Modal Wearable Sensor Architecture Exploration and Development 2) Designing Machine Learning Methods for Stress and Fatigue State Classification 3) Development of new Course Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRA) for low-power bio-signals analysis b) Both the USN and the USAF have a need to improve monitoring of pilots for fatigue and stress in a manner that does not interfere with their operational performance and to make this data available to observers who can take action if needed. The techniques can also be applied to Special Operations Forces such as USN Seals. c) USAF will contribute $50K per year in support of the project.The proposal will be sent to Dr. Bentley and Dr. D Angelo at ONR Code 34.d) creation of an operational system with new hardware, signal processing and prediction of performance metrics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 04, 2017
- Source ID
- N629091712006
Entities
People
- David Atienza
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy