Air flow regulation in fuel cells: An efficient design of hybrid fuzzy-PID control

This paper presents a hybrid fuzzy-PID controller for air flow supply on a Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) system. The control objective is to adjust the oxygen excess ratio at a given a set-point in order to prevent oxygen starvation and damage of the fuel-cell stack. The proposed contro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Baroud, Zakaria, Benalia, Attalah, Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/166251
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/166251
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Classical PID
Hybrid controller
Fuzzy logics
PEM fuel cell system
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Sumario:This paper presents a hybrid fuzzy-PID controller for air flow supply on a Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) system. The control objective is to adjust the oxygen excess ratio at a given a set-point in order to prevent oxygen starvation and damage of the fuel-cell stack. The proposed control scheme combines a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) and classical PID controller with a view to benefit the advantages of both controllers. The results show that the proposed technique performs significantly better than the classical PID controller and the FLC in terms of several key performances indices such as the Integral Squared Error (ISE), the Integral Absolute Error (IAE) and the Integral Time-weighted Absolute Error (ITAE) for the closed-loop control system.