Technical Paper
A Conceptual Design for Programmable Advanced Life Support System with Flexible Food Production System
1999-07-12
1999-01-1987
A Programmable Advance Life Support System (ALSS) that can accommodate all the demand changes necessary for life support must be developed particularly for bioregenerative functions. We have previously developed the Gravity Independent Photosynthetic Growing System (GIPGS)-a versatile multi-crop growing system), Automatic Plant Growing and Harvest System (APGHS). -a self-regenerating continuous food production systems, and the Inflatable Self-sufficient Growth Bags (ISGB). These systems can accommodate production of many other crops such as wheat, rice, lettuce, komatsuna, tomato, cucumber, sprout crops and fermented foods which can be all prepackaged in self-contained growth bags. GIPGS is capable of growing different crops and crops in different stages simultaneously with a high density and high-energy efficiency, APGHS has auto crop management for perpetual food production and auto harvest systems. Programmable logic controllers control most of these hardware functions.