Table 1.
Summary of Artificial Pancreas Designs (Degrees of Automations)
| Meal announcement (an anticipatory action to the meal by the user)a | Meal measurement (control algorithm’s awareness of the anticipatory action) | Comments | |
| Pure feedback AP | No | No | No anticipatory action is taken |
| Semiautomated AP with TI | Yes | No | TI is manually inhaled, but the information is not given to the control algorithm |
| AP with manual feed-forward SC bolus | Yes | Yes | Perfect SC bolus is taken, and the information is given to the control algorithm |
a
Manual action by the user is required.