Effective treatment of infectious diseases: A nonlinear adaptive control theoretic approach

Padhi, Radhakant and Bhardhwaj, Jayender R (2006) Effective treatment of infectious diseases: A nonlinear adaptive control theoretic approach. In: IEEE International Conference on Control Applications,, Oct 04-06, 2006, Munich, Germany, pp. 2141-2146.

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Abstract

A nonlinear adaptive system theoretic approach is presented in this paper for effective treatment of infectious diseases that affect various organs of the human body. The generic model used does not represent any specific disease. However, it mimics the generic immunological dynamics of the human body under pathological attack, including the response to external drugs. From a system theoretic point of view, drugs can be interpreted as control inputs. Assuming a set of nominal parameters in the mathematical model, first a nonlinear controller is designed based on the principle of dynamic inversion. This treatment strategy was found to be effective in completely curing "nominal patients". However, in some cases it is ineffective in curing "realistic patients". This leads to serious (sometimes fatal) damage to the affected organ. To make the drug dosage design more effective, a model-following neuro-adaptive control design is carried out using neural networks, which are trained (adapted) online. From simulation studies, this adaptive controller is found to be effective in killing the invading microbes and healing the damaged organ even in the presence of parameter uncertainties and continuing pathogen attack.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Series.:	IEEE International Conference on Control Applications
Publisher:	IEEE
Additional Information:	Copyright 2006 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	01 Sep 2010 06:55
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 06:12
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/30520

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