News

• 2024-03-10: We had our paper The Artificial Pancreas: Two Alternative Approaches to Achieve a Fully Closed Loop System with Optimal Glucose Control published in Journal of Endocrinological Investigation.
• 2024-01-12: We had our paper Mobile Software Development Kit for Real Time Multivariate Blood Glucose Prediction published in IEEE Access.
• 2023-12-24: We had our paper Estimation and Prediction of Glucose Appearance Rate for Use in a Fully Closed-Loop Dual-Hormone Intraperitoneal Artificial Pancreas published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
• 2023-12-13: APT arranged the workshop Fighting the diabetes treatment bottlenecks in Elektrobygget, NTNU.
• 2023-12-12: My PhD candidate Karim Davari Benam successfully defended his PhD degree in a public defense. His thesis is titled Design and Implementation of the Dual-Hormone Artificial Pancreas in Animal Studies – A Model Predictive Control Approach with Intraperitoneal Hormone Injections.
• 2023-08-18: We presented the paper Optimal Experimental Design to Estimate Insulin Response in Type 2 Diabetes at the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2023), in Bridgetown, Barbados.
• 2023-08-07: We had our paper Data-driven classifiers for early meal detection using ECG published in IEEE Sensors Letters.
• 2023-07-14: We presented the paper Sensor Fusion for Glucose Monitoring Systems at the IFAC World Congress 2023 in Yokohama, Japan.
• 2023-06-16: We presented the paper Fully Automated Bi-Hormonal Intraperitoneal Artificial Pancreas Using a Two-Layer PID Control Scheme at the 2023 European Control Conference (ECC) in Bucharest, Romania
• 2023-06-06: Opponent in a PhD defence in DTU (Denmark).
• 2023-02-25: Eight APT members attended ATTD 2023 in Berlin, Germany, and presented two ePosters.
• 2022-12-29: We have filed a patent application which is now published: WO2022268941 - THERAPEUTIC METHODS AND DEVICES.
• 2022-12-08: We had our paper Identifiable Prediction Animal Model for the Bi-hormonal Intraperitoneal Artificial Pancreas published in Journal of Process Control.
• 2022-12-07: We presented our paper Blood Glucose Level Prediction Using Subcutaneous Sensors for in Vivo Study: Compensation for Measurement Method Slow Dynamics Using a Kalman Filter Approach at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2022) in Cancún, Mexico.
• 2022-07-15: We presented our paper A Nonlinear State Observer for the Bi-Hormonal Intraperitoneal Artificial Pancreas at the 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2022) in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
• 2022-04-30: Eight APT members attended ATTD 2022 in Barcelona, Spain, and presented one speech and four ePosters.
• 2022-02-21: We had our paper Low-Order Nonlinear Animal Model of Glucose Dynamics for a Bihormonal Intraperitoneal Artificial Pancreas published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
• 2022-01-01: On 75% parental leave until 1 August 2022.
• 2021-11-05: We had our paper Modelling and simulation of occlusions in insulin pumps presented at the 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2021).
• 2021-10-27: Ilze Dirnena-Fusini (one of the PhD students I am supervising) successfully completed her PhD degree. Title: Intraperitoneal insulin administration – superior choice for an artificial pancreas?.
• 2021-04-13: We had our paper Physiologic effects of intraperitoneal versus subcutaneous insulin infusion in patients with diabetes mellitus type 1: A systematic review published in PLOS One.
• 2021-01-15: We had our paper Intraperitoneal insulin administration in pigs: Effect on circulating insulin and glucose levels published in BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care.
• 2020-10-23: Marte Kierulf Åm (one of the PhD students I am supervising) successfully completed her PhD degree. Title: The intraperitoneal artificial pancreas: glucose sensing and glucagon delivery.
• 2020-08-13: We had our paper Intraperitoneal and Subcutaneous Glucagon Delivery in Anaesthetized Pigs: Effects on Circulating Glucagon and Glucose Levels published in Scientific Reports.
• 2019-10-31: We had our paper Feasibility of early meal detection based on abdominal sound published in IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine.
• 2019-10-18: We have another three conference papers accepted for presentation this Fall, at IFAC Conference on Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering (FOSBE), at IEEE International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering (EHB) and at Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). See the publications list.
• 2019-07-24: We had our paper Why intraperitoneal glucose sensing is sometimes surprisingly rapid and sometimes slow: A hypothesis published in Medical Hypotheses (+ Erratum for this paper a little while later).
• 2019-07-12: Odd Martin Staal presented our paper Glucose-insulin metabolism model reduction and parameter selection using sensitivity analysis at the American Control Conference (ACC) in Philadelphia, USA.
• 2019-05-10: Odd Martin Staal (one of the PhD students I am supervising) successfully completed his PhD degree. Title: Blood glucose dynamics: Identification, smoothing and real time estimation in free-living settings.
• 2019-04-04: We had our paper Pattern Recognition Reveals Postprandial Changes in CGM Data: Non-Individualized Meal Detection in DM1 published in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI). Preprint available.
• 2019-03-20: Our paper Data Driven Filtering of Bowel Sounds Using Multivariate Empirical Mode Decomposition was published in BioMedical Engineering Online.
• 2019-02-23: Five APT members attended ATTD 2019 in Berlin, Germany and presented three posters available here.
• 2018-12-12: APT was granted another 4 years of funding from the Norwegian Research Council’s strategic biotechnology initative Centre for Digital Life Norway announced here (in Norwegian). The funding covers approximately 4 PhDs and postdocs, and equipment development by the SINTEF Acoustics group.
• 2018-12-07: Konstanze Kölle (one of the PhD students I am supervising) successfully completed her PhD degree. Title: "Towards a Safe Artificial Pancreas: Meal Detection and the Intraperitoneal Route."
• 2018-10-13: I've been involved in submitting 10 papers since June. Many of them have already been accepted; see Publications.
• 2018-09-28: Our paper Effect of sensor location on continuous intraperitoneal glucose sensing in an animal model was published in PLOS One.
• 2018-09-05: Konstanze Kölle presented our paper "Fault Detection in Glucose Control: Is it Time to Move beyond CGM Data?" at the IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems (BMS) in São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2018-01-02: On 80% parental leave until 5 August 2018.
• 2018-01-01: Starting as Associate Professor in Biomedical Cybernetics at Dept. of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU.
• 2017-08-30: We presented a conference paper Meal Detection Based on Non-Individualized Moving Horizon Estimation and Classification at the IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) in Hawaii, USA.
• 2017-07-14: We presented a conference paper Impact of sensing and infusion site dependent dynamics on insulin bolus based meal compensation at the IFAC World Congress in Toulouse, France.
• 2017-05-13: We had a journal paper published in Diabetes Therapy: A Review of the Current Challenges Associated with the Development of an Artificial Pancreas by a Double Subcutaneous Approach.
• 2017-03-21: Most of the APT members participated at the Digital Life 2017 conference in Oslo, the annual conference by Centre for Digital Life Norway. Several posters and speeches were presented by APT members.
• 2017-02-18: Members of Artificial Pancreas Trondheim presented 5 posters at the ATTD 2017 conference in Paris, France.
• 2016-08-27: My paper Intraperitoneal Glucose Sensing is Sometimes Surprisingly Rapid has been published in Modeling, Identification and Control (MIC).
• 2016-07-13: Our IFAC DYCOPS-CAB 2016 paper has been published as preprint here: The Artificial Pancreas: A Dynamic Challenge.
• 2016-03-14: I am on parental leave until 8 August.
• 2016-02-10: Submitted a journal paper to MIC.
• 2016-02-08: Our invited paper to the Artificial Pancreas session at IFAC DYCOPS-CAB 2016 in Trondheim, Norway (June 2016) has been accepted.
• 2015-09-30: APT was granted 5 years of funding from the Norwegian Research Council’s strategic biotechnology initative Centre for Digital Life Norway announced here (in Norwegian). The funding covers approximately 8 research positions.
• 2015-04-15: APT submitted a large application to the Norwegian Research Council’s strategic biotechnology initative "National Centre for Digital Life", potentially supporting much of our research during 2016-2020.
• 2015-02-21: Presented 2 posters at the ATTD 2015 conference in Paris. The posters can be found here.
• 2014-11-26: Slides from today's ski waxing course.
• 2014-11-21: APT will receive funding for one medical PhD position with a startup date in Spring 2015.
• 2014-09-12: Members of Artificial Pancreas Trondheim presented 2 posters and 1 speech at the VPH conference 2014 in Trondheim.
• 2014-04-28: My third journal paper has been published in JNER.
• 2014-02-20: The Artificial Pancreas Trondheim (APT) research group has launched a website.
• 2014-01-30: We are now annoucing a vacant PhD grant position in the Artificial Pancreas Trondheim (APT) research group. The application deadline is 28 February.
• 2014-01-01: From today on, I am back at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, in a 3-year long postdoc position. The new research group is called Artificial Pancreas Trondheim (APT) and the postdoc position is funded by the Liaison Committee between the Central Norway Regional Health Authority (RHA) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
• 2013-07-26: I am currently employed as a researcher at St Olavs Hospital, Clinic of Anaestesia and Intensive Care.
• 2013-05-08: Our newest prosthesis control system is now presented in a Youtube video.
• 2013-04-26: I successfully defended my PhD degree. The thesis is available online (Some of the papers are excluded due to IEEE's copyright rules - please contact me if you are unable to find them at IEEExplore).
• 2013-01-02: Submitted my PhD Thesis for evaluation.
• 2012-09-09: Parts of our prosthesis control system was presented in a television show for children (in Norwegian).
• 2012-09-07: My second journal paper was published in IEEE TNSRE.
• 2012-08-22: Since I have to lecture a course (TTK26) this fall, my PhD Thesis deadline was extended to 31 December 2012.
• 2012-05-24: Back from TIPS 2012 in Loughborough, UK. Many were interested in our Review paper on Terminology in Upper limb Prosthetics.
• 2012-01-28: I've launched a Cross-country skiing Grip Wax Guide app for Android.
• 2012-01-25: Submitted another journal paper to IEEE TNSRE.
• 2012-01-09: Slides and grip wax table from today's ski waxing course.
• 2011-12-13: My first journal paper was published in IEEE TNSRE.
• 2011-09-03: Presented a conference paper at EMBC 2011 in Boston.
• 2011-08-19: Presented a conference paper at the MEC Symposium 2011.
• 2011-07-28: I have made a new, unofficial poster template for NTNU, since I was not satisfied with the official one.
• 2011-01-15: Submitted a journal paper to IEEE TNSRE.
• 2010-12-08: Interview/article in Gemini [in Norwegian].
• 2010-09-04: I participated at SMIT 2010 in Trondheim, Norway.
• 2010-09-03: Erik presented our conference paper at EMBC 2010.
• 2010-08-01: After a successful one-year stay in Fredericton I have returned to Norway.
• 2010-05-26: I just came back to Fredericton after attending ISPO 2010 in Leipzig, Germany.
• 2009-08-04: Settled in Fredericton for a year.
• 2009-07-02: I've finished most of the duty work and PhD courses. Summer holiday!
• 2009-03-04: At the moment, all my time is spent on duty work and PhD courses.
• 2008-08-18: Back from MEC'08, where I presented a conference paper.
• 2008-07-01: The beginning of my PhD studies!
• 2008-05-19: Finally we now have a clever student for the term project this autumn.
• 2008-03-14: Submitted an abstract for MEC'08
• 2008-03-04: Suggested term project for students (fall 2008): Automatic Blood Glucose Control in Diabetes
• 2008-01-09: A presentation: Automatic Blood Glucose Control (slides, pdf)
• 2007-12-12: I have now applied for the PhD student position (Coordinated proportional control of upper-limb prostheses)
• 2007-10-29: Professional page launched