Optimized type-2 fuzzy controller based on IoMT for stabilizing the glucose level in type-1 diabetic patients

Abstract

Due to advancements in existing Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) systems and devices, the blood glucose level (BGL) for type-1 diabetic patients (T1DPs) is effectively and continually monitored and controlled by Artificial Pancreas. Because the regulation of BGL is a very complex process, many efforts have been conducted to design a powerful and effective controller for the exogenous insulin infusion system. The main objective of this study is to propose an optimized interval type-2 fuzzy (IT2F) based controller of artificial pancreas for regulation BGL of T1DP based on IoMT. The proposed controller should avoid the risk of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia situations that T1DP faces during the infusion of exogenous insulin. The main contribution of this work is using meta-heuristic method called grey wolf optimizer (GWO) to tune the footprint of uncertainty for IT2F’s membership functions to inject the proper dose of insulin under different conditions. The nonlinear extended Bergman minimal model (EBMM) with uncertainty is used to represent the blood glucose regulation and represent the dynamics of meal disturbance in T1DP. The effectiveness and the performance of the proposed controller are investigated using MATLAB/Simulink platform. Simulation results show that the proposed controller can avoid both severe hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia for nominal parameters of the model, in addition to model under the presence of both parametric uncertainty and uncertain meal disturbance.