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Fully automated control system for type 1 diabetes

  • US 7,806,854 B2
  • Filed: 05/15/2006
  • Issued: 10/05/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for automatic control of blood glucose level of a subject, comprising:

  • a glucose sensor operative to continually sense a glucose level of the subject and generate a corresponding glucose level signal;

    a delivery device operative to deliver doses of insulin to the subject in response to an insulin dose control signal; and

    a controller operative to generate the insulin dose control signal as a function of the weight of the subject and time-varying glucose levels of the subject as represented by the glucose level signal over time, the controller employing a control algorithm including;

    generating the insulin dose control signal based on (a) the glucose level signal, and (b) accumulation of insulin in the subject due to finite rate of utilization,wherein the controller employs a model-predictive control algorithm by which the insulin dose control signal is generated as a value optimizing an objective function with objectives of (a) a weighted integration of a difference between a predicted glucose level signal and a setpoint signal over a time horizon, and (b) a weighted integration of the insulin dose control signal over the time horizon.

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