Active insulin infusion using fuzzy-based closed-loop control

In this paper a closed-loop control algorithm is developed for blood glucose regulation in type I diabetes mellitus patients. The control technique incorporates expert knowledge about treatment of disease by using Mamdani-type fuzzy logic controller to stabilize the blood glucose concentration in normoglycaemic level of 70 mg/dl. Controller performance is assessed in terms of its ability to reject the multiple meal disturbances resulting from food intake, on an averaged nonlinear patient model. Robustness of the controller is tested over a group of patients with model parameter varying considerably from the average model. In addition, proposed controller provides the possibility of more accurate control of blood glucose level in the patient in spite of uncertainty in model and measurement noise. Simulation results show the superiority of the proposed scheme in terms of robustness to uncertainty in comparison with other researches.

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