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Auto adaptation of closed-loop insulin delivery system using continuous reward functions and incremental discretization

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  • Maria Cecilia Serafini
  • Nicolas Rosales
  • Fabricio Garelli

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Several closed or hybrid loop controllers for Blood Glucose (BG) regulation, which are also known as Artificial Pancreas (AP) Systems or Automated Insulin Delivery systems (AIDs), are in development worldwide. Most AIDs are designed and evaluated for short-term performance, with a particular emphasis on the post-meal period. However, if controllers are not adapted properly to account for variations in physiology that affect Insulin Sensitivity (IS), the AIDs may perform inadequately. In this work, the performance of two Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents trained under both piecewise and continuous reward functions is evaluated in-silico for long-term adaptation of a Fully Automated Insulin Delivery (fAID) system. An automatic adaptive discretization scheme that expands the state space as needed is also implemented to avoid disproportionate state space exploration. The proposed agents are evaluated for long-term adaptation of the Automatic Regulation of Glucose (ARG) algorithm, considering variations in IS. Results show that both RL agents have improved performance compared to a rule-based decision-making approach and the baseline controller for the majority of the adult population. Moreover, the use of a continuous shaped reward function proves to enhance the performance of the agents further than a piecewise one.

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  • Maria Cecilia Serafini & Nicolas Rosales & Fabricio Garelli, 2024. "Auto adaptation of closed-loop insulin delivery system using continuous reward functions and incremental discretization," Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(11), pages 1375-1386, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:gcmbxx:v:27:y:2024:i:11:p:1375-1386
    DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2023.2241945
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