MANIPAL: A group of interdisciplinary students under the team name #Runtime_Terrors from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal have been nominated globally to participate in the international NASA Space Apps Challenge. The team recently participated in the ninth International NASA Space Apps Challenge organized by NASA Incubator Innovation Program in association with ESA, JAXA, CSA ASC.
The student team including Arvind Karthik Muralidharan, Gokul P, Akshaye Vaidhyanathan Iyer, Shivam Mahajan and Rohan Nigam developed a sleep-inducing deep learning model. The hackathon was held from October 2 – 4 virtually on a global scale.
The competition, which was scattered around the world had about 13 active centres in India amongst 255 global virtual centres. The interdisciplinary team worked on an innovative, state of the art Machine Learning, Deep Learning and adaptive hardware solution to aid the interstellar travellers, astronauts and shift workers in scheduling their lifestyle and sleep schedule.
Prof Satish Shenoy, HOD, Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering, MIT Manipal said, the model is based on a real-time scheduling solution, that gives customized work, diet and sleep schedule daily, subjected to astronaut input, by effective utilization of Johnson Space Centre’s Circadian Rhythm research data. Besides, the team’s ingenious design of a sleep-inducing mask helps in real-time health monitoring and sleep tracking aiding in suggestive recommendations to the end-user. The mask has features including adaptive light therapy, pulse oximeter and Deep and Rapid Eye Movement sleep detection. To extend the prospect of future design and innovation, the team has developed a source code and the design files are accessible to the general public under CC licensing in GitHub, he said.