Awards & Nominations

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Global Nominee

Exploring space weather through our senses

High-Level Project Summary

This interactive tool demonstrates a multisensory system to represent space weather data, acquired by the Parker Solar Probe (Kinnison et al., 2020) and other probes. Focused on blind population, but without restrictions on use by other people. Ultrasound-based technology is implemented, with four main applications: directional parametric audio (Shi & Gan, 2010), generation of haptic sensations in the palm of the hand with ultrasound waves (Takahashi et al., 2020), haptic temperature transmission (Takahashi et al., 2020) (Nakajima et al., 2018), and ultrasonic levitation (March et al., 2017).

Detailed Project Description

We use haptic feedback, parametric audio, and levitation, all based on ultrasound to generate multisensory sensations for blind people, so that they can access space weather information collected by different probes, such as the Parker solar probe. The system has three modules: The first consists of representing the trajectory of the Parker solar probe, using levitation and haptic feedback, both for blind people and for anyone interested. The second Module consists of representing space weather with haptic feedback, parametric audio, and gas addressing (Hasegawa et al., 2018). The third module consists of learning the behavior of the sun and how it influences the planet earth through the transmission of temperature directed with ultrasonic speakers (Nakajima et al., 2018). It allows blind people to access space weather information with new technologies, which integrate a multi-sensory and immersive experience. It also positively impacts society in general as it allows you to learn and understand space weather uniquely. It is hoped that this tool will reduce the gaps that exist between sighted and blind people, in learning. It will provide information in a didactic and immersive way on different topics and experiences related to the Parker Probe Solar Probe, the research it carries out around the sun and its behavior, and also present other complex data of information, provided by the Parker Probe such as space weather, venus, electron particles, ions, etc. going from complex data to information of simple understanding. It is also wanted to reach the reach of populations with different ages, that both children and adults can use and learn everything that this system provides, are motivated and passionate about space and everything it has to offer them, and that from that learning they formulate their projects and research, either using the same tools that we use in this system or other innovative tools and technologies, which allow you to learn and so that you can contribute great things to the scientific world and your community.


What do you want to represent or visualize Represent the different wavelengths of sunlight Visualize the displacement of the various probes, taking into account the weight of this and the speed at which they move Visualize the representation of wave movement, of various items (solar atmosphere and solar wind) Representation of how the Parker probe approaches the sun, visualizing the atmosphere to which it was possible to approach Visualization of solar streamers Represent the speed of displacement of solar particles using colors Flow of the solar wind through smoke or another particle Travel through gravity assisted Elements to consider Time Distance Velocity Electrons Protons Probes Sun Magnetic field Radial velocity Density Solar radius flux Units of measurement What tools, communication languages, hardware or software was used to develop the project? Technologies Ultrasound Haptics Artificial intelligence Big Data Parametric audio Intelligent projection Sensors Software Python Pandas C/C++ Hdl Java MathLab VHDL Altium Designer. Hardware FPGA, MOSFET, STM, OPAMP Transducers 40 Khz (10 mm)

 

Space Agency Data

Among the diversity of data and information that we managed to find, provided by NASA (Translated, 2022) we rely mainly on those that focus on the movement of bodies, both of the Parker Probe and space particles, belonging to space weather and the solar wind (ACE Real-Time Solar Wind | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center, n.d.) taking data on temperature, speed, density, mass among many others. In the same way, we focus on solar phenomena, such as the layers of its atmosphere and the elements that compose it, obtaining detailed information and data from the Canadian Space Agency (Our Open Applications | Canadian Space Agency, n.d.), information that is the basis and inspiration of our project and that will be transformed and applied interactively.

Hackathon Journey

Learning ranges from our teamwork to the opportunity to discover that we can deal with unique situations and experiences. It leaves us with a spirit of improvement in our projects and a more general vision of what we can offer. It inspired us to be able to give better social inclusion to blind people by allowing them to access complex information from NASA, specifically about space weather. The project has focused primarily on the blind population to create a multi-sensory and immersive tool. Teamwork is a challenge because we all think differently, but that was our strength. We used positive language and divided the tasks according to everyone's abilities so that decision-making was done in a common way. Our gratitude goes firstly to Space Apps Challenge for allowing us to present ourselves in this event, we also thank all the people who made it possible to bring this event to Colombia (Sogamoso-Boyacá), from public figures to the people who gave us their service in this space of the chamber of commerce. Finally, we would like to thank our leader Juan Esteban Merchán for guiding us and leading us in the best way, and to thank the group for supporting us and allowing us to move forward.

References

Kinnison, J., Vaughan, R., Hill, P., Raouafi, N., Guo, Y., & Pinkine, N. (2020). Parker Solar Probe: A Mission to Touch the Sun. IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO47225.2020.9172703

Marzo, A., Barnes, A., & Drinkwater, B. W. (2017). TinyLev: A multi-emitter single-axis acoustic levitator. Review of Scientific Instruments, 88(8), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4989995

Nakajima, M., Hasegawa, K., Makino, Y., & Shinoda, H. (2018). Remotely displaying cooling sensation via ultrasound-driven air flow. IEEE Haptics Symposium, HAPTICS, 2018-March, 340–343. https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTICS.2018.8357198

Shi, C., & Gan, W. S. (2010). Development of parametric loudspeaker. IEEE Potentials, 29(6), 20–24. https://doi.org/10.1109/MPOT.2010.938148

Takahashi, R., Hasegawa, K., & Shinoda, H. (2020). Tactile Stimulation by Repetitive Lateral Movement of Midair Ultrasound Focus. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 13(2), 334–342. https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2019.2946136


ACE Real-Time Solar Wind | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center. (n.d.). Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ace-real-time-solar-wind

Our open applications | Canadian Space Agency. (n.d.). Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/open-data/applications.asp

Translated, M. (2022). Cómo parker Sonda solar sobrevive a encuentros cercanos con el so.

Tags

#Ultraosund, #Array, #Levitation, #Háptic, #Parametric, #Ultrahaptics #Leapmotion, #Midair, #Blind, #Speaker, #Display, #Nasa, #sun, #world , #Weather, #Space