Zeitschrift für biomedizinische Systeme und neue Technologien

Recent Trends in Blood Glucose Control Studies

Abstract

Eiko Furutani

Diabetes mellitus is a disease of the endocrine system in which blood glucose levels are constantly above the normal range. Since insulin-dependent diabetic patients require insulin administration to maintain blood glucose levels within the normal range, automatic blood glucose control methods to reduce the burden of such open-loop insulin therapy have been studied. In this review, we first introduce some important mathematical models of glucoseinsulin metabolism, followed by some representative blood glucose control systems, where most of them use model predictive control as control algorithm, developed to date and discuss their implications in the near future.