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 setpoint in order to prevent oxygen starvation and damage of the fuel-cell stack. The proposed control s...

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Autores: Baroud, Zakaria, Benalia, Atallah, Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos|||0000-0001-9251-6044
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/105354
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/105354
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:automation
control theory
PEM fuel cell system
Fuzzy Logic
Classical PID
Hybrid controller
Classificació INSPEC::Control theory
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Automàtica i control
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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 setpoint 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.