Seyed Mehdi RAKHTALA, Abolfazl Ranjbar NOEI, Reza GHADERI, Elio USAI

Control of oxygen excess ratio in a PEM fuel cell system using high-order sliding-mode controller and observer

The main objective of this manuscript is to design a high-order sliding-mode observer to provide finite time estimation of unmeasurable states (x4: oxygen mass, x5: nitrogen mass) together with the oxygen excess ratio (ratio of the input oxygen flow to the reacted oxygen flow in the cathode). This is done by applying second-order sliding modes through either super twisting or suboptimal controllers to control the proton exchange membrane fuel cell's breathing. The estimated oxygen excess ratio is controlled in a closed-loop system using 2 distinct sliding-mode approaches: a cascaded super twisting controller and a single-loop suboptimal structure. Simulation results are presented to make a quantitative comparison between the cascade and the single-loop configuration. The results verify that the cascade provides accurate reference tracking while the single-loop presents faster convergence.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Proton exchange membrane fuel cell, oxygen excess ratio, high-order sliding-mode observer, cascade control, second-order sliding mode

Control of oxygen excess ratio in a PEM fuel cell system using high-order sliding-mode controller and observer

Keywords:

Proton exchange membrane fuel cell, oxygen excess ratio, high-order sliding-mode observer, cascade control, second-order sliding mode,

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