Title
Chance-constrained model predictive control for blood glucose management in diabetes
Date Issued
18 January 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Universidad Johannes Kepler de Linz
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) need to supply their body with insulin from external sources in order to manage their blood glucose (BG) concentration and mitigate the long-term effects of a chronically increased BG level without falling into a potentially life-threatening hypoglycemia. Doing so is challenging and a heavy burden for those patients, which led to efforts of automating (parts of) this task, most notably in Artificial Pancreas (AP) systems. In standard AP approaches a (typically constant) reference BG value is tried to be tracked as closely as possible and often leads to satisfactory results in terms of BG management. However, requiring a constant BG can be an excessive requirement. Differently from that, this paper proposes a different framework, in which the unavoidable uncertainty is modeled in probabilistic terms and the control goal is defined not in terms of proximity to a specific BG target but as keeping the risk of leaving the euglycemic range under a given threshold. The degree of freedom gained by this problem relaxation can be used for other purposes, e.g. the minimization of total insulin intake. In the current paper an AP controller based on chance-constrained Model Predictive Control (MPC) is proposed for this purpose.
Start page
4703
End page
4708
Volume
2018-January
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Endocrinología, Metabolismo (incluyendo diabetes, hormonas)
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85046124748
Resource of which it is part
2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2017
ISBN of the container
9781509028733
Conference
56th IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2017
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