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Thales Alenia Space (www.thalesgroup.com/space); European Space Agency (www.esa.int); NASA (www.nasa.gov) |
PROJECT CREDIT_
E2O Partner Semcon |
PROJECT SCOPE_
In the CUPOLA preliminary design phase, a team from Sweden was responsible for the Human Factors Engineering (HFE) analyses. Per the barter agreement between ESA and NASA, the CUPOLA is one of the several European hardware elements of the ISS. The prime industrial contractor for the CUPOLA was the Italian company Alenia Spazio (now called Thales Alenia Space).
With its seven windows, the CUPOLA is the only ISS module with large windows and a 360-degree field of view. The CUPOLA is meant to be a pressurized worksite for astronauts and will be mainly as an operation centre for controlling the external robotic arm during Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA). It will also be used for observations of the Earth and other celestial bodies. CUPOLA launch and assembly on the ISS is scheduled for December 2009.
For the CUPOLA HFE analyses, high-fidelity mock-up demonstrations, ergonomic simulations and Virtual Reality CUBE visualisations with astronauts were carried out. Computer Manikin software was used early in the design process prior to the production of flight hardware. The Manikin analysis was supported by the use of hierarchical task analyses, a file exchange protocol and a relational database.
Dr. Anders Sundin, an expert in Ergonomics and Human Machine Interface (HMI) Design, led the project. Presently, Dr. Anders Sundin is the Manager of the ‘Cockpit Climate, Ergonomics & HMI’ group at Semcon. |
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