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artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Artificial pancreas: clinical study in Latin America without premeal insulin boluses(2018-09) Sánchez-Peña, Ricardo; Colmegna, Patricio; Garelli, Fabricio; De Battista, Hernán; García Violini, Demián; Moscoso-Vásquez, Marcela; Rosales, Nicolás; Fushimi, Emilia; Campos-Náñez, Enrique; Breton, Marc; Beruto, Valeria; Scibona, Paula; Rodriguez, Cintia; Giunta, Javier; Simonovich, Ventura; Belloso, Waldo H.; Cherñavvsky, Daniel; Grosembacher, Luis"Background: Emerging therapies such as closed-loop (CL) glucose control, also known as artificial pancreas (AP) systems, have shown significant improvement in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) management. However, demanding patient intervention is still required, particularly at meal times. To reduce treatment burden, the automatic regulation of glucose (ARG) algorithm mitigates postprandial glucose excursions without feedforward insulin boluses. This work assesses feasibility of this new strategy in a clinical trial. Methods: A 36-hour pilot study was performed on five T1DM subjects to validate the ARG algorithm. Subjects wore a subcutaneous continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and an insulin pump. Insulin delivery was solely commanded by the ARG algorithm, without premeal insulin boluses. This was the first clinical trial in Latin America to validate an AP controller. Results: For the total 36-hour period, results were as follows: average time of CGM readings in range 70-250 mg/dl: 88.6%, in range 70-180 mg/dl: 74.7%, <70 mg/dl: 5.8%, and <50 mg/dl: 0.8%. Results improved analyzing the final 15-hour period of this trial. In that case, the time spent in range was 70-250 mg/dl: 94.7%, in range 70-180 mg/dl: 82.6%, <70 mg/dl: 4.1%, and <50 mg/dl: 0.2%. During the last night the time spent in range was 70-250 mg/dl: 95%, in range 70-180 mg/dl: 87.7%, <70 mg/dl: 5.0%, and <50 mg/dl: 0.0%. No severe hypoglycemia occurred. No serious adverse events were reported. Conclusions: The ARG algorithm was successfully validated in a pilot clinical trial, encouraging further tests with a larger number of patients and in outpatient settings."artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Automatic glucose control during meals and exercise in type 1 diabetes: proof-of-concept in silico tests using a switched LPV approach(2021) Colmegna, Patricio; Bianchi, Fernando D.; Sánchez-Peña, Ricardo"Keeping the blood glucose levels within the safe range during meals and exercise still represents a major hurdle not only for patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D), but also for Artificial Pancreas (AP) systems. One of the reasons a fully (autonomous) closed-loop solution has not been released onto the market yet is the slow action of current insulin analogs. To partially overcome this limitation, the authors have previously designed a switched control strategy equipped with an insulin-on-board (IOB) safety loop that mitigates meal-related glucose excursions without carbohydrate counting. In this paper, a similar strategy based on a Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) control law has been adapted to safely handle also exercise challenges with minimum user intervention. In silico results using the UVA/Padova simulator evidence that the proposed closedloop scheme is feasible under moderate-intense exercise bouts by effectively and safely reducing the risk of hypoglycemia."artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Automatic regulatory control in type 1 diabetes without carbohydrate counting(2018-05) Colmegna, Patricio; Garelli, Fabricio; De Battista, Hernán; Sánchez-Peña, Ricardo"A new approach to automatically regulate the glucose level in type 1 diabetes is presented in this work. This is the so-called Automatic Regulation of Glucose (ARG) algorithm, which is based on a switched Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) inner controller, combined with an outer sliding mode safety loop with Insulin on Board (IOB) constraints. In silico and in vivo results without feedforward insulin boluses delivered at meal times indicate that safe blood glucose control can be achieved by the proposed controller. This controller is simple to migrate to well-known hardware platforms, and intuitive to tune using a priori clinical information."artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Control-oriented model with intra-patient variations for an artificial pancreas(2020) Moscoso-Vásquez, Marcela; Colmegna, Patricio; Rosales, Nicolás; Garelli, Fabricio; Sánchez-Peña, Ricardo"In this work, a low-order model designed for glucose regulation in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) is obtained from the UVA/Padova metabolic simulator. It captures not only the nonlinear behavior of the glucose-insulin system, but also intrapatient variations related to daily insulin sensitivity (SI) changes. To overcome the large inter-subject variability, the model can also be personalized based on a priori patient information. The structure is amenable for linear parameter varying (LPV) controller design, and represents the dynamics from the subcutaneous insulin input to the subcutaneous glucose output. The eficacy of this model is evaluated in comparison with a previous control-oriented model which in turn is an improvement of previous models. Both models are compared in terms of their open- and closed-loop differences with respect to the UVA/Padova model. The proposed model outperforms previous T1DM control oriented models, which could potentially lead to more robust and reliable controllers for glycemia regulation."artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Invalidation and low-order model set for artificial pancreas robust control design(2019) Bianchi, Fernando D.; Moscoso-Vásquez, Marcela; Colmegna, Patricio; Sánchez-Peña, Ricardo"The purpose of this work is to compute a linear parameter-varying (LPV) model set that describes the insulin-glucose dynamics in type 1 diabetes (T1D). This set includes a nominal LPV model and dynamic uncertainty and is amenable to controller design. The nominal model is an LPV control-oriented model previously published by the authors that is (in)validated in this work against the UVA/Padova metabolic simulator. The result is a set of models that is used to design a switched LPV robust controller to account for nonlinearities and variations in insulin sensitivity (SI). Closed-loop responses obtained with the robust controller and a nominal one are compared. Results illustrate the convenience of including robust strategies in designing control laws for an artificial pancreas (AP). "artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Linear parameter-varying model to design control laws for an artificial pancreas(2018-02) Colmegna, Patricio; Sánchez-Peña, Ricardo; Gondhalekar, Ravi"The contribution of this work is the generation of a control-oriented model for insulin-glucose dynamic regulation in type1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). The novelty of this model is that it includes the time-varying nature, and the inter-patient variability of the glucose-control problem. In addition, the model is well suited for well-known and standard controller synthesis procedures. The outcome is an average linear parameter-varying (LPV) model that captures the dynamics from the insulin delivery input to the glucose concentration output constructed based on the UVA/Padova metabolic simulator. Finally, a system-oriented reinterpretation of the classical ad-hoc 1800 rule is applied to adapt the model’s gain."artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Reducing glucose variability due to meals and postprandial exercise in TI DM using switched LPV control: in silico studies(2016) Colmegna, Patricio; Sánchez-Peña, Ricardo; Gondhalekar, Ravi; Dassau, Eyal; Doyle III, Frank J."Time-varying dynamics is one of the main issues for achieving safe blood glucose control in type I diabetes mellitus (TI DM) patients. In addition, the typical disturbances considered for controller design are meals, which increase the glucose level, and physical activity (PA), which increases the subject's sensitivity to insulin. In previous works the authors have applied a linear parameter-varying (LPV) control technique to manage unannounced meals."artículo de publicación periódica.listelement.badge Switched LPV glucose control in type 1 diabetes(2016-06) Colmegna, Patricio; Sánchez-Peña, Ricardo; Gondhalekar, Ravi; Dassau, Eyal; Doyle III, Frank J."The purpose of this work is to regulate the blood glucose level in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) patients with a practical and flexible procedure that can switch amongst a finite number of distinct controllers, depending on the user´s choice."