Blood glucose regulation in type 1 diabetic patients: an adaptive parametric compensation control-based approach

Here, a direct adaptive control strategy with parametric compensation is adopted for an uncertain non-linear model representing blood glucose regulation in type 1 diabetes mellitus patients. The uncertain parameters of the model are updated by appropriate design of adaptation laws using the Lyapunov method. The closed-loop response of the plasma glucose concentration as well as external insulin infusion rate is analysed for a wide range of variation of the model parameters through extensive simulation studies. The result indicates that the proposed adaptive control scheme avoids severe hypoglycaemia and gives satisfactory performance under parametric uncertainty highlighting its ability to address the issue of inter-patient variability.