Hypo/Hyperglycemic Constrained Design of IV Insulin Control for Type 1 Diabetic Patients With Meal and Initial Condition Uncertainties Using Sequential Quadratic Programming

Abstract

The focus of this paper is on the development of an open loop controller for type 1 diabetic patients which is robust to meal and initial condition uncertainties in the presence of hypo- and hyperglycemic constraints. Bernstein polynomials are used to parametrize the evolving uncertain blood-glucose. The unique bounding properties of these polynomials are then used to enforce the desired glycemic constraints. A convex optimization problem is posed in the perturbation space of the model and is solved repeatedly to sequentially converge on a sub-optimal solution. The proposed approach is demonstrated on the classic Bergman model for Type 1 diabetic patients.