  While the Artificial Pancreas is effective in regulating the blood glucose in
the safe range of 70-180 mg/dl in type 1 diabetic patients, the high
intra-patient variability, as well as exogenous meal disturbances, poses a
serious challenge. The existing control algorithms thus require additional
safety algorithms and feed-forward actions. Moreover, the unavailability of
insulin sensors in Artificial Pancreas makes this task more difficult. In the
present work, a subcutaneous model of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is considered for
observer-based controller design in the framework of contraction analysis. A
variety of realistic multiple-meal scenarios for three virtual T1D patients
have been investigated with +30 % and -30 % of parametric variability. The
average time spent by the three T1D patients is found to be 77 %, 73 % and 76
%, respectively. A significant reduction in the time spent in hyperglycemia
(>180 mg/dl) is achieved without any feed-forward action for meal compensation.
