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    @JournalArticle {2376,
    	title = {Nonlinear controller for bispectral index tracking: Robustness and on-line retuning},
    	journal = {Control Engineering Practice},
    	year = {2016},
    	month = {2016-04-16 00:00:00},
    	publisher = {Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ldt.},
    	abstract = {

    In this paper, the performance of a control law designed for the automatic administration of propofol and of remifentanil in order to track a desired level for the bispectral index (BIS), used as a measure of the depth of anesthesia, is analyzed under the presence of model parameters uncertainties. It is theoretically proved and illustrated by simulations that under these circumstances the controller has a very good performance as the BIS converges to a value contained in a neighborhood of the desired BIS level. A retuning strategy in order to improve the BIS tracking under the presence of uncertainties was also theoretically deduced. Simulations show that this strategy leads to BIS tracking improvement. The performance of the controller in clinical environment is illustrated by a clinical case.

    }, keywords = {Anesthesia, Automatic control, BIS, DoA, Positive systems, Robustness}, issn = {0967-0661}, doi = {10.1016/j.conengprac.2016.03.021}, author = {Nogueira, F. N. and Mendon{\c c}a, T. and Rocha, P.} }

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    The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.

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