Nonlinear Control for Blood Glucose Regulation of Diabetic Patients: An LMI Approach

Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum Laude in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, and an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses.

Section 1: Introduction
1. The History, Present & Future progression of Artificial Pancreas
2. Biomedical Control & its importance in Artificial Pancreas
3. A brief discussion in Nonlinear Control Tools

Section 2: Type 1 Diabetes: Control Oriented Modelling
4. A review on the existing Artificial pancreas Models
5. Developing and validating Nonlinear Models based on Input-Output data

Section 3: State Estimation via Robust Nonlinear Observers
6. Mathematical formulation of Robust Nonlinear Observers
7. State Estimation

Section 4: Design of Robust Nonlinear Control Techniques
8. Design of Nonlinear Control Technique based on Feedback Linearization
9. Design of Robust LMI based Control Techniques
10. Conclusions

Section 5: Proposed Architecture for In-Silico Artificial Pancreas
11. Sensors and Actuators
12. Integrated (in-silico) Model of Artificial Pancreas