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Evaluation of an adaptive system for breathing control in closed-loop diaphragm pacing
Xiaoyu Gu1,2, Zifu Huang3, Zhihao Mao4
1School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China.
Objectives:
Existing diaphragm pacing (DP) system use an open-loop control method with a fixed stimulation mode to control breathing. It requires doctors to manually adjust stimulation parameters to meet the patient's ventilation needs.
Methods:
A neural network adaptive controller was tested to control breathing in DP system. For the diaphragm motion model, the respiratory airflow of healthy adults and rabbits was collected and compared with the simulation calculation results to verify the accuracy of the model. The performance of the adaptive controller was evaluated comparatively with that of the PID controller. Adaptive controller consists of a neural network and adaptively adjusts stimulation parameters to produce the desired respiratory volume waveform. Superiority of the output performance of the adaptive controller was further studied by setting various diaphragm model parameters. We further verified the feasibility of the adaptive controller through animal testing.
Results:
The adaptive controller is better than the PID controller in maintaining the stability of the desired breath volume. Application of the adaptive controller can reduce the root mean square (RMS) error between the desired breath volume and the actual value to less than 6 %.
Conclusions:
This study demonstrates the potential application of adaptive controllers in closed-loop DP systems.
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