Browsing by Author "Kunusch, Cristian"
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A gain-scheduled LPV control for oxygen stoichiometry regulation in PEM fuel cell systems
(2014)
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Open AccessThe article addresses the LPV control of a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC). In order to optimize efficiency, PEMFCs require reliable control systems ensuring stability and performance, as well as robustness ... -
Adaptive PI control with robust variable structure anti-windup strategy for systems with rate-limited actuators: application to compression systems
(2020-03-01)
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Open AccessIn this paper, an adaptive proportional-integral (PI) control strategy for nonlinear systems with constrained actuators is discussed. In particular, a variable-structure anti-windup strategy that can be retro fitted onto ... -
Advances in HOSM Control Design and Implementation for PEM Fuel Cell Systems
(2009)
Conference report
Open AccessA second order sliding mode strategy to control the air supply and oxygen stoichiometry of a fuel cell based generation system is presented. The control design is accomplished from a complete model of a experimental plant ... -
Control of an active rectifier with an inductive-capacitive-inductive filter using a twisting based algorithm
(2013)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper presents a novel controller for an active rectifier with an inductive-capacitive-inductive filter. The proposed control scheme comprises two levels. The internal level, is a current controller based on the ... -
Control-oriented model of a membrane humidifier for fuel cell applications
(Elsevier, 2017-04-01)
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Open AccessImproving the humidification of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel-cells (PEMFC) is essential to optimize its performance and stability. Therefore, this paper presents an experimentally validated model of a low temperature ... -
Control-oriented modeling and experimental validation of a PEMFC generation system
(2011-09)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyAn experimentally validated control-oriented model that reproduces the most typical features of a laboratory proton exchange membrane fuel cell generation system, is presented in this paper. The proposed representation is ... -
Control-oriented thermal modeling methodology for water-cooled PEM fuel-cell-based systems
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-02-24)
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Open AccessIn this paper, a new control-oriented modeling methodology for the thermal dynamics of water-cooled Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) is presented and validated. This methodology is not only useful for control ... -
Decoupled inputs sliding mode controllers for a fuel cell-supercapacitor module in hybrid generation applications
(Springer, 2019-01-01)
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Open AccessThe development of Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) sliding mode control setups for a fuel cell/supercapacitor module is presented in this paper. The main objective of the proposed controllers consists in simultaneously ... -
Description of gasket failure in a 7 cell PEMFC stack
(Elsevier S.A., 2007)
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Open AccessThis article presents the data and the description of a fuel cell stack that failed due to gasket degradation. The fuel cell under study is a 7 cell stack. The unexpected change in several variables such as temperature, ... -
Design and implementation of LQR/LQG strategies for oxygen stoichiometry control in PEM fuel cells based systems
(2011)
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Open AccessThis paper presents the oxygen stoichiometry control problem of proton exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells and introduces a solution through an optimal control methodology. Based on the study of a non-linear dynamical model ... -
Development and implementation of a supervisor strategy and sliding mode control setup for fuel-cell-based hybrid generation systems
(2015)
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Open AccessThis paper presents the development and experimental results of a supervisor strategy and a sliding mode control setup to improve the performance of hybrid generation systems. The topology in this study is conformed by a ... -
Diseño de controladores LQR/LQG para su aplicación en sistemas de pilas de combustible tipo PEM
(2010)
Conference report
Open AccessSe presentan aportes y soluciones de control en el campo de sistemas de celdas de combustible PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane). Con base en el estudio de un modelo dinámico no lineal de un sistema de celdas de combustible ... -
Diseño e implementación de un control supervisor para sistemas híbridos de generación basado en pilas de combustible
(2012)
Conference report
Open AccessEn el presente artículo se muestra el desarrollo, implementación y resultados experimentales de un control supervisor para un sistema híbrido de generación de energía eléctrica basado en una pila de combustible tipo PEM. ... -
Ditherless extremum seeking for hydrogen minimization in PEM fuel cells
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-08-01)
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Open AccessThis paper presents a nonsmooth adaptive extremum seeker that minimizes the hydrogen consumption in a fuel-cell system. The extremum seeker operates by estimating the gradient of the objective ... -
Efficiency optimisation of an experimental PEM fuel cell system via super twisting control
(2010)
Conference report
Open AccessA robust control solution is proposed to solve the air supply control problem in autonomous polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) based systems. Different second order sliding mode (SOSM) controllers are designed ... -
Estudio de la viabilidad del algoritmo super-twisting de ganancias variables para el control de pilas de combustible PEM
(2013)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyEn este trabajo se presenta el diseño de un controlador paramaximizar la eficiencia de una pila de combustible, en base a un algoritmo Supertwisting (ST) con ganancias variables. La estrategia consiste en regular la relación ... -
Experimental results applying second order sliding mode control to a PEM fuel cell based system
(2013)
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Open AccessA robust control solution is proposed to solve the air supply control problem in autonomous polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) based systems. A Super Twisting controller is designed using a nonlinear model of ... -
Extremum seeking algorithms for minimal hydrogen consumption in PEM fuel cells
(2013)
Conference report
Open AccessWe present an adaptive sliding-mode extremum seeker that minimizes an unknown function that is subject to an unknown static constraint. The same algorithm can be applied when the static constraint is replaced by a dynamic ... -
Fault-tolerant unfalsified control for PEM fuel cell systems
(2015)
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Open AccessThe article addresses the implementation of a data-driven control strategy in a real test bench based on proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The proposed control scheme is based on Unfalsified Control (UC), which ... -
Identification and observation in the anode line of PEM fuel cell stacks
(2013)
Conference report
Open AccessIn this work, some potential identification/observation problems that arise in the anode line of a typical Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell based system are highlighted and then solved. They involve estimating ...
