Designing of intelligent PID controller for cardiac pacemaker using artificial bee colony algorithm

Abstract

For real-time patient heart rate management, most widely used biomedical implantable devices in the cardiovascular system is the cardiac pacemaker (CP). A key factor in keeping the patient alive is the development of novel heart pacing techniques which can reduce the risk of cardiac arrhythmia. The present work is inspired to achieve this goal. To achieve an accurate, controlled, and regulated heart rate, a pacemaker with an intelligent proportional integral derivative (PID) controller is considered. The proposed PID controller is an integration of the traditional PID controller with appropriate tuning, that uses a swarm intelligence-based artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm for handling the bio-electrical signals. To ensure the efficacy of the proposed controller experiments are conducted. MATLAB/Simulink software is used to test and simulate the suggested model and to adjust the controller gains. The simulation is performed in the time and frequency domain. The resulting pulse rate from the ABC-PID controller has a rise time (0.0985 s), settling time (0.3293 s), maximum overshoot (0.111367%), and MSE (0.0040565). External disturbances of various duty cycles are also introduced in the proposed CP control system. The proposed ABC-PID controller for implanted pacemakers reduces the risk of heart rate over-run.

Keywords

• Cardiac pacemaker
• proportional integral derivative
• artificial bee colony algorithm
• ABC-PID controller
• heart rate
• cardiac arrhythmias