What's the ASL?

The ASL 5000™ is a breathing simulator capable of simulating a wide range of patients, produced by IngMar Medical©. It is mainly used for educational purpose, developing products and testing ventilators. Check the IngMar Medical website for more information.

What's the purpose of this tool?

The ASL 5000 comes with a software to manage the simulator. As the ASL 5000 can simulate very complex patients, the software has a lot of tabs, settings and it takes quite a long time to create the desired scripts.

⇒ The goal of this tool is to create a friendly interface with the most used parameters.

With the ASL 5000 software, and this tool, 3 different kind of simulations can be developed:

• a single simulation file (vr3): the simulation will run indefinitely, until the user ends it;
• a script: runs a bunch of vr3 with an explicit amount of cycles for each simulation file;
• a dashboard: 25 predefined vr3 that can be easily launched.

Installation

This toolbox is written using Python3.

Initializing the environment:

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
venv/Scripts/activate

Loading the packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Launch ASL-Tools:

python main.py

If you want to "compile" this tool, you can use PyInstaller on ASL-Tools.spec:

pip install PyInstaller
pyinstaller installer/ASL-Tools.spec

Creating an installer

The installer is created using NSIS, so it should be installed and added to Windows PATH variable. To create the installer, you can use the following command:

installer\create_setup.bat

This script will:

• compile the Qt ressources;
• compile the project to target\ASL-Tools\;
• create the installer using NSIS to target\.

A pre-compiled release is available here.