H∞ Controller Design to Control the Mean Arterial Pressure and Cardiac Output

Abstract

Continuous research actions in the field of biomedical engineering and especially related to physiologic processes modeling, demand better performance and robustness for the designed automated systems. In the current paper, by using the H_∞ technique, a robust control system is proposed and designed. Such a technique is used to gain simultaneous control over two applied cardiovascular variables (i.e. blood pressure and cardiac output) when two drugs (i.e. Sodium Nitroprusside and Dopamine) are injected.