Master/Slave BiVAD Controller

Owned by Jo Philipp Pauls
Last updated: Sept 05, 2018


Background

This control system is for a dual LVAD biventricular assist device system. It was initially designed and built for two VentrAssist LVADs, but could be adapted for other dual-LVAD systems by re-tuning the proportional-integral control system. 


Aims and Objectives

The aim of this project was to design and build a physiological control system for a dual LVAD rotary BiVAD system. 


Please stay tuned for instructions on how to use this control system.



Key Documents


This control system was presented in the following publication. 

Stevens, M.C., Wilson, S., Bradley, A., Fraser, J., Timms, D., 2014. Physiological control of dual rotary pumps as a biventricular assist device using a master/slave approach. Artif. Organs 38, 766–74. https://doi.org/10.1111/aor.12303

Repository

Find the Bitbucket repository for this project here. 



References



Licence Information

All source-code and software posted within the Master/Slave BiVAD Controller repository are licensed under a 3-Clause BSD License (BSD-3-Clause). Any supplementary data and other materials are licensed under an Attribution CC BY Version 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) unless otherwise indicated (such as permitted versions of published articles whose copyright belongs to the publishers) and apart from logos. You are free to use, adapt and commercialise this source-code, software, data or other materials as long as you acknowledge the OpenHeart Project.



Contributors

Michael C. Stevens, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia