Artificial Pancreas: Avoiding Hyperglycemia and Hypoglycemia for Type One Diabetes

Amer B. Rakan, Taghreed MohammadRidha, Shibly Ahmed AL-Samarraie

Abstract


The objective of this work is to automatically regulate glycemia of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) avoiding both hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia risks. A positive state feedback controller was designed previously to regulate Blood Glucose Concentration (BGC) in the fasting phase maintaining the system in the positively invariant set (PIS). The drawback of this positive controller is that when tested in the postprandial phase it couldn’t avoid hyperglycemia. Therefore, in this work, the positive state feedback controller was developed to avoid both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia maintaining the system inside the PIS. Meal disturbance is estimated by a sliding mode perturbation observer to be included in the control law. Such that meal effect is canceled early enough preventing glycemia from raising to hyperglycemia, but the positivity of the new controller isn’t guaranteed. Therefore, a hybrid controller is designed to switch to the previous positive controller whenever the new controller has a negative action. A positive control is essential in this problem since the control input (insulin) can only be infused and it cannot be taken back from the bloodstream in case of any overdoses. The hybrid positive controller is tested in silico on five virtual T1DM patients. The results shown that the average percentage of time for glycemia over 180mg/dl (3.6%), normal range (80-120mg/dl) (78.2%), and below (80mg/dl) (0%) from overall simulation time. In conclusion, the hybrid positive control law succeeded to maintain the system inside the PIS avoiding hypoglycemia and preventing hyperglycemia keeping BGC in normal range rejecting meal disturbance.

Keywords


Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM); positively invariant set; sliding mode perturbation observer; hybrid control.

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