RESPILAB : A VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF HUMAN RESPIRATORY CONTROL SYSTEM

One of the career areas included in the field of Biomedical Engineering is the application of engineering system analysis: physiologic modeling, simulation and control. This paper describes a Virtual Laboratory for the analysis and the study of Human Respiratory System. The Laboratory is based on the compilation of several models described in the literature. Presented application has been build using MATLAB/Simulink and EJS, so it combines good computation capabilities and it is completely interactive. The Virtual Laboratory is designed in order to understand the operation of respiratory system under normal conditions and pathological situations, and to predict respiratory variables at different levels of stimuli and conditions.