First Use of Model Predictive Control in Outpatient Wearable Artificial Pancreas

Del Favero, Simone; Bruttomesso, Daniela; Di Palma, Federico; Lanzola, Giordano; Visentin, Roberto; Filippi, Alessio; Scotton, Rachele; Toffanin, Chiara; Messori, Mirko; Scarpellini, Stefania; Keith-Hynes, Patrick; Kovatchev, Boris P.; DeVries, J. Hans; Renard, Eric; Magni, Lalo; Avogaro, Angelo; Cobelli, Claudio; on behalf of the AP@home Consortium

doi:10.2337/dc13-1631

First Use of Model Predictive Control in Outpatient Wearable Artificial Pancreas

OBJECTIVE Inpatient studies suggest that model predictive control (MPC) is one of the most promising algorithms for artificial pancreas (AP). So far, outpatient trials have used hypo/hyperglycemia-mitigation or medical-expert systems. In this study, we report the first wearable AP outpatient stud…