Project Description
The Bioastronautics Laboratory in the Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is conducting experiments to explore how humans and autonomous systems can best team up to address the challenges of deep space missions. As part of these experiments, we have developed a computer interface that simulates what remote operators of spacecraft life support systems would see as they worked with an autonomous system to keep the spacecraft working. Our computer interface works well for our current experiments, but we have identified a number of ways in which it could be made faster, less likely to stop working, and easier to use. The first part of this project will have the DLA student help improve the computer interface by implementing our identified improvements and any of their own that they come up with.
The second part of this project will have the DLA student assist in collecting data for our experiments, and help with creating simulated autonomous systems to work with experiment participants.
The DLA student will attend weekly team meetings with professors and graduate students in addition to their time spent working on the project itself.
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Special Requirement
Students who apply for this project are required to have:
- Completed at least 1 undergraduate-level course in computer programming
- Proficiency in the Python programming language
- Experience with Git, GitHub, or other version control and repository systems
- Experience with the Qt GUI design toolkit
Additionally, students with any of the following will be very competitive in applying for this project:
- Knowledge of parallel computing/multithreading/multiprocessing
- Experience with computer networking
- Experience with software continuous integration
- Experience working on software with multiple people at the same time
- Experience conducting human subject research
Contact
- Torin Clark (faculty)
- Jacob Kintz (graduate student)