A helmet prototype to prevent the G-LOC
Project objectives
The aim of the project is to produce a helmet prototype, able to record some physiological parameters of military aircraft pilots, such as electroencephalography, electrooculography, electrocadiography, heart rate, arterial pressure, blood oxygen saturation etc. etc., to prevent the onset of G-LOC (G-force induced Loss Of consciousness), that is the loss of consciousness during the flight produced by great acceleration or deceleration to a level of 8, 9 times the gravity force (G). This problem, well known since a lot of years, is responsible of several flight accidents that, if it occurred at low height, could determine the crash of the aircraft and the death of the pilot. Despite since a lot of years all the military pilots did a specific training to prevent the G-LOC and use specific suit, to reduce such a risk, with the greater performance of modern fighters, 8-20 % of military pilots refer almost a G-LOC episode during their whole career. All the physiological studies performed demonstrated that the loss of consciousness, the G-LOC, is anticipated by few seconds of functional alterations that could be highlight by multiparametric recording systems such the one that will be developed in this project.
Start/End Date
January 2017 − december 2020
Principal investigator
Prof. Bruno Beomonte Zobel
Coordinator
“Sapienza" University, Rome
List of participants
- Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
- Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
- Brainy Solution Enterprises
Source of funding
National Plan of Military Research 2014