Advanced Regulatory Controller for Automatic Control of Anesthesia

Abstract Anesthesia process is to maintain a triad of hypnosis, analgesia and neuromuscular blockade by infusing several drugs which are specific for each state. This work focuses on controlling the hypnosis with RTDA (Robustness, Set-point tracking, Disturbance rejection, Aggressiveness) controller by regulation of propofol using Bispectral Index (BIS) as primary controlled variable. One of the main advantages of RTDA controller is its intuitive tuning parameters when compared to PID and MPC controllers. For the controller design, a fourth-order nonlinear pharmacokinetic - pharmacodynamic representation is used for the hypnosis dynamics of patients. Nominal values for pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics were taken from the literature. Then the performance of the RTDA controller is compared with the performances of the PID and MPC controllers. Robust performance of these controllers is tested for a selected range of patients by considering variability in parameters of the patient model. Also studied are the relative performances with respect to different set-points in BIS, and disturbances in BIS signal. Numerical simulations show that the RTDA controller provides better performance compared to the other two controllers.

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