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Adaptive inverse control of air supply flow for proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems

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To prevent the oxygen starvation and improve the system output performance, an adaptive inverse control (AIC) strategy is developed to regulate the air supply flow of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) system in this paper. The PEMFC stack and the air supply system including a compressor and a supply manifold are modeled for the purpose of performance analysis and controller design. A recurrent fuzzy neural network (RFNN) is utilized to identify the inverse model of the controlled system and generates a suitable control input during the abrupt step change of external disturbances. Compared with the PI controller, numerical simulations are performed to validate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed AIC strategy.

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  1. Fuel Cell Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P. R. China

    Chun-hua Li  (李春华), Xin-jian Zhu  (朱新坚), Sheng Sui  (隋 升) & Ming-ruo Hu  (胡鸣若)

  2. Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Fuel Cells, Langfang, 065000, Hebei, P. R. China

    Xin-jian Zhu  (朱新坚) & Wan-qi Hu  (胡万起)

  3. Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, P. R. China

    Wan-qi Hu  (胡万起)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.20576071), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai Municipality (Grant No.08ZR1409800)

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Li, Ch., Zhu, Xj., Sui, S. et al. Adaptive inverse control of air supply flow for proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems. J. Shanghai Univ.(Engl. Ed.) 13, 474–480 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11741-009-0610-3

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