TP Type Polytopic Modelling of the Bergman Minimal Model of the Diabetes Mellitus

The paper investigates the possibility of the Tensor Product (TP) type polytopic modelling of the quasi Linear Parameter Varying (qLPV) model formulation of the Bergman minimal model with the aim to fit the model to the modern polytopic and Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) based control design methodologies. The paper proofs that the Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition (HOSVD) based canonical form as an exact TP type polytopic representation of the Bergman minimal model exist. The paper also determines and evaluates this TP model via TP model transformation. Various convex hulls for the Bergman minimal model were systematically constructed by TP model transformation enabling convex hull manipulation based optimisation in LMI-based control design. © 2013 IEEE