Control Subject to Human Behavioral Disturbances: Anticipating Behavioral Influences in the Control of Diabetes

This project addresses the design of control systems where the principle disturbances are the result of routine human behavior, i.e. behaviors that are (i) random but cannot be treated as zero-mean, white noise processes and (ii) occur with statistical regularity but cannot be treated as periodic due to natural variation in human behavior. The principle application of our work is the control of blood glucose concentration for patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM), where meals and exercise are the two main disturbances, both of which are random but cannot be treated as zero-mean, white noise processes.