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.

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.

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

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

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.