Model predictive control for optimal social distancing in a type SIR-switched model
11th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems (BMS)
; 54:251-256, 2021.
Article
in English
| Web of Science | ID: covidwho-1531353
ABSTRACT
Social distancing strategies have been adopted by governments to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, since the first outbreak began. However, further epidemic waves keep out the return of economic and social activities to their standard levels of intensity. Social distancing interventions based on control theory are needed to consider a formal dynamic characterization of the implemented SIR-type model to avoid unrealistic objectives and prevent further outbreaks. The objective of this work is twofold to fully understand some dynamical aspects of SIR-type models under control actions (associated with second waves) and, based on it, to propose a switching non-linear model predictive control that optimize the non-pharmaceutical measures strategy. Opposite to other strategies, the objective here is not just to minimize the number of infected individuals at any time, but to minimize the final size of the epidemic while minimizing the time of social restrictions and avoiding the infected prevalence peak to overpass a maximum established by the healthcare system capacity. Simulations illustrate the benefits of the aforementioned proposal. Copyright (C) 2021 The Authors.
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11th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems (BMS)
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2021
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