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Ventilator and User Interface Using
LabVIEW®

Hasan Guler, Ibrahim Turkoglu & Fikret

Ata

Arabian Journal for Science and

Engineering

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DOI 10.1007/s13369-014-1090-y

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RESEARCH ARTICLE - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Designing Intelligent Mechanical Ventilator and User Interface

Using LabVIEW®
Hasan Guler · Ibrahim Turkoglu · Fikret Ata

Received: 23 October 2012 / Accepted: 31 May 2013 / Published online: 10 April 2014
© King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals 2014

Abstract The main purpose of this paper is to design

mechanical ventilator and to develop user interface. Mechan-
ical ventilators have been generally controlled by open-loop
controller. Thus, workload of clinicians in intensive care
unit is too much. In this study, an intelligent mechanical
ventilator was designed as a closed loop to reduce work-
load of clinicians. The device is called intelligent ventilator
because of using an intelligent control technique, fuzzy logic.
A software-based interface was developed in LabVIEW® to
monitor and adjust respiratory variables. In this work, fuzzy
controlled the inspiration/expiration valves and pressure reg-
ulator in ventilator. Fuzzy has two inputs and two outputs for
inspiration/expiration times and it has one input and one out-
put for pressure regulator. The performance of device was
tested with eight female Wistar albino rats using pressure-
controlled ventilation. Student t test for p < 0.05 was applied
to the calculated rats’ lung parameters to determine statisti-
cal discrepancy. The results show that there is no statistical
discrepancy in rats’ lung parameters for before and after the
experiments. It can be said that the designed ventilator sup-
ports rats’ artificial respiration, successfully and does not
alter the lung parameters of rats.
1 Introduction
Keywords Fuzzy logic · Medical control system ·
Respiration · LabVIEW Mechanical ventilator is a device that supports enough oxy-
gen for patients with respiratory distress in intensive care
unit (ICU). Oxygen is important for human being since it
provides energy. Respiration can be defined as transporta-
H. Guler (B) · F. Ata
tion of oxygen and carbon dioxide. It has two phases: inspi-
Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department, ration and expiration [1]. Inhalation or inspiration is defined
Firat University, 23119 Elazig, Turkey as taking air into the lungs, and exhalation or expiration is
e-mail: hasanguler23@gmail.com; hasanguler@firat.edu.tr called the process of breathing it out. Ventilation can be done
in three different types. These are negative pressure ventila-
I. Turkoglu
Software Engineering Department, Firat University, tion, positive-pressure ventilation and high-frequency venti-
23119 Elazig, Turkey lation.

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Many engineers and scientists have tried to improve
features of mechanical ventilator since 1980s. They have
firstly focused on monitoring patients’ respiration physi-
ology. Afterwards, microprocessor-driven ventilators have
been used instead of the mechanically controlled ventilators
[2].
After mid-1990s, the scientists focused mainly on three
different systems. These are algorithmic programs, model-
based system and knowledge-based system. Algorithmic
program method is not suitable for ventilation because of
patients’ complex cardiovascular and respiration physiology.
However, the other two systems can produce solution by tak-
ing into account the disadvantage of algorithmic programs.
All respiration system must be modeled in model-based sys-
tem. Nevertheless, it is not easy to model respirations system
of patients with different lung pathologies. Modeling respira-
tion system is not necessary in the knowledge-based system.
Experts’ opinion plays an important role in this system. Most
researchers have tried to control respiration parameters via
open- and closed-loop controller in these systems.
After artificial intelligence techniques have been success-
fully applied to many systems, these techniques have begun
to be widely used in biomedical applications in recent years.
There have been several attempts to design and control venti-
lator and ventilation via using classical control methods and
artificial control techniques. Many researchers have gener-
ally developed open-loop systems to control patients’ respi-
ration parameters in model- and knowledge-based systems
[3–15]. There have been a few studies to design or develop
closed-loop controller for mechanical ventilation [16–21].
However, these studies have been mainly focused on weaning
process in model- and knowledge-based systems. Commer-
cial ventilators have generally been used in these studies. In
[22–28] studies, respiration parameters such as FiO2 , SaO2 ,
tidal volume and respiration rate have been controlled by the
intelligent control techniques.
In the literature, although there are many studies about
controlling ventilator, only a few studies about designing
open- or closed-loop controlled ventilator exist. Recently,
some researchers have tried to make intelligent ventilators
via using artificial intelligent techniques. However, in these
studies, researchers have used expensive commercial ventila-
tors. Thus, in this study, the low-cost LabVIEW-based intel-
ligent mechanical ventilator and user interface were designed
to reduce workload of clinicians. Eight female Wistar albino
rats were used to test the designed ventilator. During the
experiments, the clinician did not adjust any parameters on
ventilator prototype. According to the obtained results, it is
seen that the designed intelligent ventilator supports rats’ res-
piration successfully and the ventilator does not alter the lung
parameters of rats. In addition, it is obvious that this study
may be the first step for future intelligent ventilator used in
ICU.
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2 Material and Methods
In the designing of intelligent mechanical ventilator proto-
type and user interface, LabVIEW® software produced by
national instrument (NI) was used to control all system and
create software-based user interface. The reason why we
choose LabVIEW® is that it has fuzzy controller tool and
also the user interface can be created easily because of being
graphical programming language.
The schematic diagram of intelligent mechanical ventila-
tor prototype was designed as shown in Fig. 1.
The prototype was created as modular structures. The pro-
totype has eight electronic circuits. These are power unit, pro-
portional valves circuit, pressure regulator circuit, solenoid
valves circuit, pressure sensors circuit, inspiration and expi-
ration flow sensor circuits and finally main board circuit. The
main controller unit of the prototype is NI-cRIO 9073 chas-
sis. Analog input and output modules and digital input and
output modules were added to the chassis.
The power unit circuit was specially designed and has
three power units such as 24 V and 90 mA, 12 V and 65 mA
and −12 V and 65 mA. The proportional valves were used
to adjust oxygen percent of the air by mixing pure oxygen
and air. The pressure regulator was used to adjust pressure of
the oxygen. The operating range of the regulator is between
0.001 and 0.1 MPa. The aim of using solenoid valves is to
provide inspiration and expiration processes. The operating
frequency of valves is 20 Hz. In the pressure sensors circuits,
two different sensors were used to measure oxygen pressures
during inspiration/expiration phases. The measuring ranges
of sensors are 1 and 5 PSI. The goal of using 1 PSI sensor
is to detect small pressure changes. Inspiration and expira-
tion flow sensors measured to oxygen flow in the inspiration
and expiration phases. The measuring range of flow sensor
is 0–10 l/min. The main board circuit is designed to pro-
vide commutations between the other seven circuits and NI
chassis. The figure of the circuit is shown in Fig. 2.
The prototype mechanical ventilator is shown in Fig. 3.
In modern ventilator used in ICU, ventilators provide
many ventilation modes such as pressure-controlled ventila-
tion (PCV), pressure support ventilation (PSV) and volume-
controlled ventilation. In this study, NI LabVIEW® 2010
academic premium suite program was used. The two differ-
ent programs were implemented in LabVIEW® to provide
various ventilation modes. In addition, these programs offer
manual or automatic control for users. In the programs, fuzzy
logic controlled inspiration and expiration valves and pres-
sure regulator according to the measured pressure on rats.
The implemented software-based user interfaces are shown
in Figs. 4 and 5.
In setting interface section for Fig. 4, respiration rate, the
first inspiration time, PEEP, oxygen percentage and the first
value of pressure regulator are determined by clinician. In
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Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of V1

mechanical ventilator prototype O2 Tube

V3 V4
PR

Atmosphere

Air Tube
P2
P1

P3
V2

F1
P1,2,3:Pressure Sensor
PR :Pressure Regulator
V1,2 :Proportional Valve F2
V3,4 :Selenoid Valve
F1,2 :Flowsensor
Rat

The constructed fuzzy logic controlled solenoid valves

Fig. 2 The designed main board circuit
Fig. 3 The designed intelligent mechanical ventilator prototype
monitorization interface section for Fig. 5, inspiration pres-
sure, inspiration and expiration time, inspiration and expira-
tion valve’s status, flow, the new value of pressure regulator
and pressure waveform are monitored. The three LEDs were
used to show which valve is open. In addition, clinician can
control ventilator prototype as open loop when to press key
button on the screen.
and pressure regulator in the system, separately. When mem-
bership functions for fuzzy systems were being created, real
values of rats’ lung pressure were used just like in [19,29].
Thus, the scaling of membership functions was not normal-
ized to [−1,1]. The membership functions of fuzzy input
and output for solenoid valves are shown in Figs. 6 and 7,
respectively.
Where NB is negative big, NS is negative small, Z is zero,
PS is positive small, PB is positive big. The triangle shapes in
membership functions of fuzzy inputs and outputs were cho-
sen in accordance with those stated in the relevant literature
[19,23,25,26].
The constructed fuzzy system for inspiration/expiration
valves has two inputs and two outputs to determine inspira-
tion and expiration times in this system. The inputs are error
and the changes in error. The outputs are inspiration and expi-
ration times. These membership functions determined inspi-
ration and expiration time according to pressure changes on
rats. Solenoid valves were opened or closed with respect to
the estimated time via fuzzy logic. Twenty-five rules were
separately created for inspiration and expiration time. These
rules were created by taking the opinions of clinicians. Rule
tables for inspiration and expiration time are shown in Tables
1 and 2.
The other equipment controlled via fuzzy logic is the pres-
sure regulator. The input and output membership functions
are shown in Figs. 8 and 9, respectively.
Where P is the measured peak inspiration pressure and
Reg is the output value of pressure regulator. The triangle
shape was chosen for the input and the trapeze shape was
chosen for the output.
Five rules were created for the output value of pressure
regulator as below:
If peak pressure is P1 then regulator values is Reg1.

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Fig. 4 The implemented

software-based user interface
for setting

Fig. 5 The implemented

software-based user interface
for monitorization

µpe(k) µins

INS1 INS2 INS3 INS4 INS5 INS6 INS7

NB NS Z PS PB

0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 sec

-40 -20 0 20 40 cmH2O

µexp
µ pe(k)
EXP1 EXP2 EXP3 EXP4 EXP5 EXP6 EXP7
NB NS Z PS PB

0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 sec

-10 -5 0 5 10 cmH2O Fig. 7 The membership functions of the outputs

Fig. 6 The membership functions of inputs

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Table 1 Rule tables for inspiration time

e(k)/δe(k) NB NS Z PS PB

NB INS1 INS1 INS2 INS3 INS4

NS INS1 INS2 INS3 INS4 INS5
Z INS2 INS3 INS4 INS5 INS6
PS INS3 INS4 INS5 INS6 INS7
PB INS4 INS5 INS6 INS7 INS7

Table 2 Rule tables for expiration time

e(k)/δe(k) NB NS Z PS PB

NB EXP7 EXP7 EXP6 EXP5 EXP4

NS EXP7 EXP6 EXP5 EXP4 EXP3
Z EXP6 EXP5 EXP4 EXP3 EXP2
Fig. 10 The ventilated rat in the experiment
PS EXP5 EXP4 EXP3 EXP2 EXP1
PB EXP4 EXP3 EXP2 EXP1 EXP1
weights of rats used in the experiment were 225 ± 25 g.
Respiratory parameters of rats were chosen in accordance
µ Pik with those stated in relevant literature [30,31]. Thus, FiO2 : 1
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
(fraction of inspired oxygen), PEEP: 0 cmH2 O (positive end-
1 expiratory pressure), tidal volume: 6 ml/kg were used in the
experiments. Pressure regulator was first set to 30 cmH2 O.
The test procedure for each rat is as below.

• Application of anesthesia for rats.

0 10 20 30 40 cmH2O • The tracheotomy operation on rats
• Determine ventilation parameters on setting screen.
Fig. 8 The membership function of the input • Provide artificial respiration during 1 min.
• Inject Blok-L agent to paralyze respiration system of rats.
µ Reg • After 40 min, start weaning process from ventilator and
then euthanasia.
Reg1 Reg2 Reg3
1
During experiments, PCV mode was used for rat’s ventila-
tion. Rats were firstly anesthetized with 0.3 ml ketamine and
tracheotomy operation was carried out to provide artificial
respiration. Afterwards, 0.3 ml Blok-L was injected to para-
lyze respiratory system of rats. Thus, respiration of rats was
0 10 15 25 30 40 cmH2O
carried out by the device.
Fig. 9 The membership function of the output The picture of ventilated rat during experiment is shown
in Fig. 10.
The flow chart of the implemented program is shown in
If peak pressure is P2 then regulator values is Reg1. Fig. 11.
If peak pressure is P3 then regulator values is Reg2.
If peak pressure is P4 then regulator values is Reg2.
If peak pressure is P5 then regulator values is Reg3. 4 Results

After the experiments on rats, lung resistance and capacitance

3 Experimental Setup of rats were calculated. Equations 1, 2 and 3 were used to
calculate these values [27].
Eight female Wistar albino rats were used to investigate Ppeak − Pplato
the success of the designed ventilator prototype. The mean R= (1)
V̇

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Fig. 11 The flow chart of the

implemented PCV mode

Vt Table 3 The calculated resistance and capacitance values before Block-

Cdynamic = (2)
Ppeak − PEEP L agent was not applied for rats
R (mmHg/ml/s) Cdynamic (ml/mmHg) Cstatic (ml/mmHg)
Vt
Cstatic = (3) Rat-1 0.164 0.172 0.194
Pplato − PEEP
Rat-2 0.173 0.189 0.214
where R is the resistance, Cdynamic and Cstatic are the capaci- Rat-3 0.178 0.201 0.233
tance, Ppeak is peak inspiration pressure, Pplato is the pressure Rat-4 0.159 0.153 0.170
applied to small airways and alveoli during positive-pressure Rat-5 0.163 0.176 0.199
mechanical ventilation, V̇ is flow, Vt is tidal volume and Rat-6 0.160 0.154 0.171
PEEP is the positive end-expiratory pressure. Rat-7 0.166 0.162 0.179
The calculated resistance and capacitance values before Rat-8 0.161 0.167 0.188
Block-L agent was not injected to rats are shown in Table 3
and the calculated resistance and capacitance values after the
experiments are shown in Table 4.
The changes of lung resistance and capacitance of rats are The maximum and minimum discrepancies in lung resistance
shown in Figs. 12, 13 and 14, respectively. were in rat 7 and rat 4, respectively. The maximum and mini-
It can be seen from Figs. 12, 13, 14 that there is no big mum discrepancies in lung capacitances were in rat 6 and rat
discrepancy in the rats’ lung dynamics for before and after 4, respectively. Respiratory speed of rats was selected as 80
the experiment. The clinicians confirmed that the increases breaths per minute. Thus, rats’ respiration period was 0.75 s.
in the lung dynamics were resulted from the injected agents. The shortest inspiration time and the smallest peak pressure

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Table 4 The calculated resistance and capacitance values after exper-

iments on rats
R (mmHg/ml/s) Cdynamic (ml/mmHg) Cstatic (ml/mmHg)

Rat-1 0.169 0.179 0.204

Rat-2 0.180 0.202 0.233
Rat-3 0.182 0.212 0.247
Rat-4 0.163 0.157 0.175
Rat-5 0.169 0.185 0.210
Rat-6 0.166 0.181 0.205
Rat-7 0.175 0.174 0.197
Rat-8 0.165 0.171 0.193

Fig. 14 The changes of rats’ static lung capacitance for before and
after experiments


x
X= (4)
n

(x − x)2
S =
2
(5)
n−1

(x1 − x2 )
t= (6)
S12 S22
n 1 −1 + n 2 −1

Fig. 12 The changes of rats’ lung resistance for before and after exper-
iments
where x is the arithmetic mean, S 2 is variance, t is the test
formula, x is the investigated group and n is the number of
data in group.
According to the results from student t test, it can be seen
that there is no statistical discrepancy for 98.7 % reliability
between the values of the rats’ lung resistance and capaci-
tance. It means that the designed intelligent ventilator does
not disturb lung parameters of rats and provides artificial res-
piration, successfully.

5 Conclusion and Discussion

Mechanical ventilator is widely used to treat patients with

Fig. 13 The changes of rats’ dynamic lung capacitance for before and
after experiments
were obtained in rat 4, whose lung resistance was the low-
est; while the longest inspiration time and the highest peak
pressure were obtained in rat 6, whose lung resistance was
the highest.
The student t test was used to determine statistical dis-
crepancy in rats’ lung parameters. The student t test for
p < 0.05 was applied to the obtained results from rats’ exper-
iments. The Eqs. 4, 5 and 6 were used to calculate statistical
discrepancy.
respiratory distress. According to patients’ physiological sta-
tus, clinicians determine the settings of ventilator in ICU
manually, but this increases the workload of them. Thus,
many researchers have focused on automatic ventilator con-
trol to decrease it. In literature, the open-loop or closed-loop
systems were designed or developed by researchers. They
have generally developed open-loop controller to control
patients’ respiration parameters. There have also been studies
about designing the closed-loop systems for mechanical ven-
tilation. In these studies, commercial ventilators have been
converted to closed-loop ventilators. Thus, the researchers
were unable to intervene in the software and hardware of
ventilator.

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In this study, instead of buying commercial ventilator,
the intelligent mechanical ventilator prototype was designed
and the software-based user interface was implemented with
LabVIEW® to monitor and adjust respiratory variables. The
designed device was controlled as closed loop. However, ven-
tilator can be also controlled as open loop when to press key
button on the interface screen.
The performance of device was tested with eight female
Wistar albino rats by using PCV mode. During the experi-
ments, the clinician did not adjust any parameters on ventila-
tor prototype. Fuzzy logic controller made decisions accord-
ing to rat’s physiological status. After the experiments, stu-
dent t test was used to determine statistical discrepancy in
rats’ lung parameters. These lung parameters are lung resis-
tance, dynamic and static capacitances. In the light of the
obtained results from the student t test, it is obvious that
the designed prototype supports artificial respiration of rats
successfully and do not alter the lung parameters of rats. In
addition, this study shows that the designed intelligent ven-
tilator minimizes the workload of clinicians and so it can be
said that this study may be the first step for future’s intelligent
ventilator used in ICU.
In the future studies, artificial neural network, neural fuzy
hybrid system or decision support systems will be added to
the designed ventilator to investigate the effects of these sys-
tems in the respiration of living being. These studies may
create future research-driven protocols.
Acknowledgments This work was supported in part by the FUBAP-
1911 and TGSD-0595 projects. The authors would like to thank Prof.
Servet KILINÇ and Asst.Prof. Kadri KULUALP for tracheotomy oper-
ation.
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