Mars, referred to as MHAS, is abbreviated as it is about the rules and requirements for the automatic operation of various machinery and equipment in the habitats on Mars. Many people who are engaged in Mars residence research are actually a bit unpleasant about what the standard is, what its use is, and how it is made! This standard is not a matter of random determination. It is related to whether people can survive, whether they live comfortably or safely in a broken place like Mars, which is cold, oxygen-free, sandstorms and dust storms! After all, on Mars, it is not as easy to find someone to repair it as on Earth, so those systems must be reliable!
1. Disassembly of basic concepts and core goals :
Priority Rule of Survival Guarantee ~ : All automated systems, whether they are filtration or water circulation, must be guaranteed to be able to live, that is, the oxygen concentration must be maintained between 19% and 23%, the water must be clean and drinkable, and the temperature must be between 18-25 degrees Celsius, which is a comfortable range. These are the bottom line in the bottom line and must not be broken!
Resource circulation maximization requirements! : Everything on Mars is so scarce, unlike the earth where you can find anything to replenish. Therefore, the automation system must try its best to recycle waste such as water, oxygen, and even urine and defecation, and strive to achieve the minimum waste. For example, the recycling rate of water must be more than 95%, preferably 99%!
Key technical points of key modules ~
Life Maintenance System Automation (LSS-A) : There are several small modules here, which is air treatment automation, which can automatically detect carbon dioxide concentration. Once it exceeds 0.5%, the purification procedure will be started immediately; there is also water resource management automation, fresh water, wastewater, and condensate must be automatically separated, processed, and automatically sent to the place to go. You must know how much water is left at any time and anywhere, and predict how long it will last. Just like some advanced enhanced versions of the intelligent control system used on our earth, the environment on Mars is more than ten thousand times worse than that on Earth! Provide global procurement services for weak current intelligent products!
2. – Energy Management Automation (EMS-A) : On Mars, solar panels mainly generate electricity, but on Mars, there are no sandstorms that cover the boards, so the automation system must be able to automatically determine when to start the cleaning device, such as brushing or blowing compressed air; and energy batteries also have to automatically manage charging and discharge to ensure that the most important life system can last for a period of time when it is out of power, for example, it must have to survive at least 72 hours of power outage, otherwise people will be finished? 2. Daily Operation Automation (DOA) details/This can actually be compared with the common smart homes on earth :
Planet-level "smart home" is more complicated! : It is very simple to control a light or a curtain for smart homes on Earth, but on Mars, the door lock must automatically identify the face or iris of the person living in. When the wind and sand outside are strong, the windows must be automatically switched to an internal light source to simulate day and night; the food may be a special dish planted in the laboratory, and the light, nutrients and temperature of the planting system are also automatically controlled, and there is no need for people to serve them every day.
Anti-interference and independent operation capabilities are very different! : The smart home on Earth is broken down and it can be done manually. The signals from Mars and the Earth are transmitted for dozens of minutes, and the time difference is too large with Beijing time. Therefore, all automation systems must be able to make decisions on their own and deal with emergencies by themselves. This is so important!
1. -FAQs and Answers :
Q: Why does Mars not only use ready-made automation standards on the planet, such as those used in industry? Answer: The standards on Earth do not consider the deadly low gravity, cosmic radiation, extreme temperature difference, etc., and the energy and materials on Earth are relatively easy to get. However, every bit of energy and everything on Mars is so precious that it is the same? Just like building a small dirt house on the earth and building an earthquake-resistant fortress on the top of a mountain, how can the drawings be the same!
Q: Which department or department generally formulates and updates this standard? A: At present, there is no unified leader in the world to take care of this matter. Usually, there are some major power consortiums engaged in space exploration, such as NASA, ESA, our China Space Administration, and some powerful space companies, such as Blue Origin, who sit down and discuss the formulation. In the future, with technological progress, they will definitely have to constantly change and add new things.
Personally, I think that although Mars is still in the process of continuous exploration and improvement, it is definitely a super-super critical part of the entire plan for humans to immigrate to Mars on a large scale in the future. Without this standard, the automation systems that everyone has created are incompatible with each other. If you use yours and mine, you don’t know who to coordinate and solve them if something goes wrong! Therefore, it is really urgent to set standards that are decent and recognized by everyone. The sooner you need to do it, the better!
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