University of Washington
Lunar obligations
$5.7Mas prime
Lunar awards
11as prime
Its subcontractors
4$674K reported
Primes it works for
2$673K in subawards
Who it subcontracts to
REGULATION OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS AND SLEEP BY THE LUNAR MONTH.
REGULATION OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS AND SLEEP BY THE LUNAR MONTH.
DEEP CONTACT GRAPH ROUTING FOR LUNAR OPERATIONS.
REGULATION OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS AND SLEEP BY THE LUNAR MONTH.
Who it works for
REPRESENTATIONS, THEORY, AND ALGORITHMS FOR AUTONOMOUS SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS IN THE CISLUNAR REGIME
EVALUATION OF LATCHING STRATEGIES, PROTOTYPE AND EVALUATION OF LATCHING MECHANISMS. FABRICATE OF BRANCH SCISSOR MECHANISM. WORK WITH CMU ON VALIDATION OF SIMULATION THROUGH SIMPLE HARDWARE EXPERIMENTS AND ON OPTIMIZATION OF CANDIDATE DESIGNS IN SIMULATION.
Lunar awards as prime
| Award | Description | Period | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| R01HL162311 | REGULATION OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS AND SLEEP BY THE LUNAR MONTH - PROJECT SUMMARY THROUGHOUT EVOLUTION AND HISTORY HUMANS HAVE PROGRESSIVELY ISOLATED THEMSELVES FROM THE NATURAL CYCLES BY BUILDING ARTIFICIAL HABITATS THAT SHIELD THEM FROM THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT. THIS HAS VASTLY AFFECTED WHEN AND HOW MUCH HUMANS SLEEP, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE NEAR UNIVERSALIZATION OF ELECTRIC LIGHT. THE KEY TO THIS ISOLATION AND CHANGE IN SLEEP PATTERNS IS THE ABILITY TO MANIPULATE ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AND EXTEND ACTIVITY INTO THE NIGHTTIME. A RECENT STUDY FROM OUR LABORATORY FOUND THAT THE TIMING OF SLEEP CHANGES ACROSS THE MOON CYCLE, WITH LATER AND SHORTER EVENTS OF NIGHT SLEEP ON THE NIGHTS LEADING UP TO THE FULL MOON. SURPRISINGLY, WE FOUND THIS LUNAR CYCLE MODULATION NOT ONLY IN RURAL BUT ALSO IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS. SLEEP IS CONTROLLED BY TWO SIMULTANEOUS PROCESSES: THE CIRCADIAN CLOCK DETERMINES THE OPTIMAL TIMES FOR SLEEP THROUGHOUT THE 24-H CYCLE WHILE THE HOMEOSTATIC DRIVE FOR SLEEP INCREASES AS WE STAY AWAKE. THE TWO PROCESSES COMBINE TO DETERMINE THE NATURAL HUMAN PATTERNS OF NIGHT SLEEP. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO DETERMINE WHICH OF THESE TWO MECHANISMS THAT REGULATE SLEEP IS AFFECTED THROUGHOUT THE MOON CYCLE TO DELAY AND SHORTEN SLEEP ON THE NIGHTS BEFORE FULL MOON. WE WILL COMBINE LONGITUDINAL FIELD RECORDINGS OF SLEEP AND SLEEP LABORATORY STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING TWO AIMS: SPECIFIC AIM 1: ASSESS CIRCADIAN PHASE AT OPPOSITE PHASES OF THE MOON CYCLE IN TOBA/QOM COMMUNITIES. WE WILL CONDUCT LONGITUDINAL MONITORING OF SLEEP IN RURAL AND URBAN NATIVE TOBA/QOM COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN ARGENTINA. IN INDIVIDUALS WITH ROBUST LUNAR PATTERNS WE WILL ASSESS THE PHASE OF THE DIM-LIGHT MELATONIN ONSET (DLMO), THE GOLD- STANDARD FOR DETERMINING CIRCADIAN PHASE IN HUMANS, IN THE DAYS LEADING TO THE FULL AND NEW MOONS. OUR HYPOTHESIS IS THAT THE PHASE OF THE CIRCADIAN CLOCK IS MODULATED ACROSS THE MOON CYCLE, AND PREDICTS THAT THE DLMO PHASE WILL BE DELAYED ON THE DAYS PRECEDING THE FULL MOON RELATIVE TO THE PRE-NEW MOON DAYS. SPECIFIC AIM 2: ASSESS CIRCADIAN PHASE, AND CIRCADIAN AND HOMEOSTATIC REGULATION OF SLEEP AT OPPOSITE PHASES OF THE MOON CYCLE IN A HIGHLY URBANIZED COMMUNITY. WE HAVE ALREADY CONFIRMED THAT THIS LUNAR MODULATION IS PRESENT EVEN IN INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETIES, WHERE ARTIFICIAL LIGHT DURING THE EVENING REIGNS OVER THE FULL MOON’S LIGHT. WE WILL SCREEN SEATTLE PARTICIPANTS THROUGH LONGITUDINAL SLEEP MONITORING AND SELECT THOSE WITH THE MOST ROBUST LUNAR RHYTHMS TO PARTICIPATE IN SLEEP LABORATORY VISITS TWICE AT THE OPPOSITE PHASES OF THE MOON CYCLE. WE WILL USE POLYSOMNOGRAPHIC WAKE AND SLEEP RECORDINGS, AS WELL AS A CONSTANT ROUTINE PROTOCOL TO STUDY THE POTENTIAL LUNAR MONTHLY CHANGE IN CIRCADIAN PHASE AND IN THE HOMEOSTATIC REGULATION OF SLEEP AFTER SLEEP DEPRIVATION. WHETHER THE MOON CAN AFFECT SLEEP HAS BEEN A MATTER OF HIGH CONTROVERSY FOR DECADES. OUR RECENT WORK DEMONSTRATED THAT SLEEP PATTERNS VARY ACROSS THE MOON CYCLE IN A VERY PREDICTABLE MANNER IN REAL LIFE CONDITIONS, IN VERY DIFFERENT POPULATIONS AND UNDER DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO SHED LIGHT ON THE MECHANISMS THROUGH WHICH THIS MODULATION OCCURS, WHICH WILL FURTHER OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE REGULATION OF HUMAN SLEEP, AND ITS IMPACT ON HEALTH AND DISEASE. | 2022-08-25 → 2027-07-31 | $1.8M |
| NNX17AH02A | THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THE PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO DEVELOP DUAL QUATERNION BASED METHODS AND ALGORITHMS TO SOLVE COMPLEX COUPLED 6-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM (6-DOF) ROTATIONAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SPACE VEHICLE GUIDANCE PROBLEMS. MANY NASA MISSIONS CURRENT OR PLANNED REQUIRE COMPLEX GUIDANCE TRAJECTORIES TO ACHIEVE MISSION GOALS. CURRENT GUIDANCE APPROACHES RELY ON CLEVER ENGINEERING HEURISTICS AND EXTENSIVE PRE-MISSION PLANNING AND ANALYSIS AND HENCE THEY ONLY PROVIDE A LIMITED AUTONOMY WHICH IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS MANAGED AUTONOMY. THE MAIN TECHNICALCHALLENGE IS THAT MOST OF THESE GUIDANCE PROBLEMS HAVE DEMANDING MISSION AND VEHICLE CONSTRAINTS AND REQUIREMENTS THAT MUST BE SATISFIED. HENCE THE RESULTING PROBLEMS ARE COMPLEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS THAT ARE HARD TO SOLVE ESPECIALLY ONBOARD IN REAL-TIME. TO THIS END WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A DUAL QUATERNION BASED FORMULATION OF THE GUIDANCE PROBLEMS TO OBTAIN NUMERICALLY TRACTABLE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS WHOSE SOLUTIONS CAN BE COMPUTED ROBUSTLY ANDEFFICIENTLY. SPECIFICALLY THE RESULTING PROBLEMS WILL BE CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS WHOSE OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS CAN BE OBTAINED VERY RAPIDLY WITH DETERMINISTIC GUARANTEES. CONVEX OPTIMIZATION BASED ALGORITHMS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN DEMONSTRATED ON MARS PINPOINT LANDING POWERED DESCENT GUIDANCE PROBLEM IN ACTUAL FLIGHT TESTS AND PROVED TO BE AN ENABLING CAPABILITY. THOUGH THE PROPOSED EFFORT RELIES ON CONVEX OPTIMIZATION METHODS TO SOLVE GUIDANCE PROBLEMS IT IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT AND NEW IN TWO KEY ASPECTS:I) THE PROPOSED EFFORT FOCUS ON A DIFFERENT CLASS OF APPLICATIONS NAMELY MOON OR PRIMITIVE LANDING MISSIONS (BOTH MANNED AND UNMANNED) WHERE THERE IS NO ENTRY PHASE AND MANY MISSION CONSTRAINT ARE 6-DOF COUPLED IN ATTITUDE AND TRANSLATION.II) WE UTILIZE DUAL QUATERNION FORMULATION RATHER THAN STANDARD SPACE VEHICLE STATES WHICH INHERENTLY COUPLES ATTITUDE AND TRANSLATIONAL MOTION. MOON AND PRIMITIVE BODY (COMETS AND ASTEROIDS) MISSIONS REQUIRE ACTIVE CONTROL THROUGHOUT THE PROXIMITY OPERATIONS. AS VEHICLES GET CLOSER TO THE SURFACE TERRAIN RELATIVE NAVIGATION (TRN)SENSORS SUCH AS THOSE DEVELOPED UNDER AUTONOMOUS LANDING AND HAZARD AVOIDANCE TECHNOLOGY (ALHAT) PROGRAM SHOULD BE ABLE TO OBSERVE THE LANDING SITE WHILE MANEUVERING [1]. HENCEATTITUDE POINTING CONSTRAINTS WILL BE COUPLED WITH THE POSITION OF THE VEHICLE RELATIVE TO THE SITE (WHICH IS A TRANSLATIONAL STATE). SUCH COUPLED TRANSLATIONAL AND ATTITUDE CONSTRAINTS ARE TYPICALLY STRONGLY NON-CONVEX IF THE STANDARD VEHICLE STATES ARE USED. ON THE OTHER HAND THE UTILIZATION OF DUAL QUATERNIONS TO DESCRIBE VEHICLE STATES NATURALLY ENABLE US TO FORMULATE THESE COMPLEX CONSTRAINTS AS CONVEX CONSTRAINTS ON THE SOLUTION VARIABLES. IN THIS PROJECT WE EMPLOY THE UNIT DUAL QUATERNION PARAMETERIZATION TO SIMULTANEOUSLY REPRESENT THE ORIENTATION AND POSITION OF THE SPACECRAFT AND PROPOSE THE ROTATIONALLY AND TRANSLATIONALLY CONSTRAINED ZONE FORMULATION WITH UNIT DUAL QUATERNION. INDEED THERE ARE SEVERAL KEY MISSION CONSTRAINTS ENCOUNTERED IN MANY SUCH APPLICATIONS. DUAL QUATERNION FORMULATIONS HOLD THE PROMISE OF NATURALLY CONVEXIFYING THESE INHERENTLY 6-DOF CONSTRAINTS THEREBY MOTIVATING THE PROPOSED RESEARCH EFFORT. | 2017-04-01 → 2024-09-30 | $877K |
| 80NSSC22K0258 | OBJECTIVES: NASA S ARTEMIS AND CLPS PROGRAMS ARE PAVING THE FUTURE FOR THE LUNAR COMMUNITY BY SENDING ROBOTIC ASSETS AND HUMANS TO THE LUNAR SURFACE FOR YEARS TO COME. IN LIGHT OF THESE UPCOMING MISSIONS THERE IS A GREAT NEED FOR DYNAMIC SCHEDULING | 2022-01-18 → 2026-09-15 | $648K |
| 80NSSC20K0989 | LUNAR LAVA TUBES COULD BE AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE FOR SCIENCE WHERE SUBSURFACE SAMPLES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN MODIFIED BY SPACE WEATHER NOR BY MICROMETEORITE IMPACTS AND AS A RESOURCE LONG-TERM HUMAN PRESENCE ON THE MOON THROUGH THEIR POTENTIAL AS... | 2020-05-31 → 2023-02-28 | $549K |
| 80NSSC25K7642 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS | 2025-01-28 → 2028-01-27 | $433K |
| 80NSSC25K7863 | THE ROSES FUNDING OPPORTUNITY GOALS ARE: EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES. DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-03-17 → 2028-03-16 | $369K |
| 80NSSC25K7736 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES. DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-03-01 → 2028-02-29 | $319K |
| 80NSSC25K0007 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCYS EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-05-20 → 2028-05-19 | $319K |
| 80NSSC25K7262 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-01-02 → 2027-01-01 | $180K |
| 80NSSC25K0090 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCYS EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2025-06-05 → 2027-06-04 | $170K |
| 80NSSC25K7185 | EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM BASED ON DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES AND DIRECTION FROM CONGRESS. PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF ON AND FROM THE MOON LUNAR ORBIT MARS AND BEYOND. ADVANCE DISCOVERY IN EMERGING FIELDS BY IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES DEVELOP A DIRECTORATE-WIDE TARGET-USER FOCUSED APPROACH TO APPLIED PROGRAMS INCLUDING EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS SPACE WEATHER PLANETARY DEFENSE AND SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. | 2024-10-15 → 2026-04-14 | $54K |