Conceptual Framework for Stress and Comfort Enhancement using Fuzzy Controller

Biomonitoring devices have considerably improved on their elemental components, most notably in heart rate monitoring and estimation of caloric expenditures. This work aims to make use of readily available biomonitoring technologies and explore the untapped potential of these devices in meeting the needs of professional workers, such as astronauts, who are subjected to consistently special conditions in their working environment. We proposed and developed Smart Sensory Skin (S3) platform to monitor users’ health in real-time and providing measures to improve their immediate conditions with enhanced comfort units. Our newly developed computational algorithm will sense and respond to the person’s stress level in real-time and adjust the environmental factors such as temperature, and oxygen level. The closed-loop architecture of the proposed framework improves the comfort level of users and consequently leads to better performance under critical working conditions such as during space missions. Our demonstration of the proposed concept includes a fuzzy comfort enhancer that collects sensory information from a microcontroller which consequently issues commands to control the operation of a secondary device, such as an HVAC control system.