Design of an efficient fuel cell vehicle drivetrain, featuring a novel boost converter

Marshall, J.; Kazerani, M.

doi:10.1109/iecon.2005.1569080

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“…Increasing the number of phases can significantly reduce the input current ripple over a wider range of the duty cycle. Therefore, the size and losses of the filtering stages can be reduced, the switching and conduction losses -as well as EMI levels -can be significantly decreased and the operating life of the fuel cell can be increased [1]. However, this is done at the expense of more components increasing the size and cost of the converter.…”

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confidence: 97%

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Design and development of an Embedded Control System of a DC/DC power converter for a fuel cell

Kontonikolas

Chrisovalantou

Stergiopoulos

et al. 2009

2009 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation

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The non-linear behavior of the Voltage-Current (V-I) fuel cells' output curve is one of the major issues the scientific community deals with, in order to improve fuel cell technology and expand its use to both domestic and industrial applications. Many power conditioning topologies of a fuel cell's output electrical energy have been presented in the past years, but the DC/DC Interleaved Boost Converter (IBC) topology seems to be one of the most attractive solutions. Therefore, IBC control schemes become a key factor in fuel cell energy systems and the use of Embedded Systems is highly indicated for efficient and reliable real-time control. The traditional methods of programming microcontrollers via "C" or Assembly language, may take a respectable amount of time to develop, significantly slowing down the procedures for system development and validation. This paper presents a new model-based rapid prototyping method for programming Embedded Systems using Matlab/Simulink® models. The Embedded Control System (ECS) is designed to control the input current of an IBC connected to a fuel cell, by suitably varying the switching signals which drive the Power Switches on the IBC.

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“…Considering the non-linear voltage-current (V-I) characteristic of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell ( Fig. 1), there are two main reasons why power conditioning for the fuel cell is necessary [1]:…”

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Design and development of an Embedded Control System of a DC/DC power converter for a fuel cell

Kontonikolas

Chrisovalantou

Stergiopoulos

et al. 2009

2009 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation

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“…Wheel force limits in combination with constraints due to vehicle configuration allowed a reusable structure. Here, in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Istanbul, Turkey, June [13][14][15]2007 ThD1.3 1-4244-1068-1/07/$25.00 ©2007 IEEE. this paper the limits are taken one step further, actuator position and rate of change limits in combination with tyre force limits are considered as constraints for the control allocator.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…According to [14] the most efficient buffer is a battery when performance, such as peak acceleration, towing, and price are compared for battery, ultracapacitors, and a combination of battery and ultracapacitors. A battery with a high energy density allows the fuel cell to work at efficient operating points or even to be shut down when low output power is needed.…”

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Coordination of Vehicle Motion and Energy Management Control Systems for Wheel Motor Driven Vehicles

Laine

Fredriksson

2007

2007 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium

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This paper shows how smooth coordination of vehicle motion controller and energy management can be achieved when control allocation is used for over-actuated ground vehicles. The ground vehicle studied here is equipped with four electric wheel motors, four disc brakes, and front and rear steering. This gives a total of ten input signals to control the desired vehicle motion in longitudinal-, lateral-, and yawdirection. Simulations show that the desired input signals from energy management and steering can be fulfilled, but when needed the actual input signals for the motion actuators are smoothly diverted from the desired input signals due to vehicle stability reasons and/or saturation of the actuators.

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“…The bidirectional DC/DC has been widely used in electric vehicles [1] [2], and the control mothed of DC/DC was gradually changing from hard switching control mode to soft switch control mode [3] [4]. In recent years, the soft switching technology of bidirectional DC/DC converter has been developed, and a variety of soft switching topologies were proposed, such as resonant soft switching technology, quasi zero voltage switching PWM technology, passive buffer, active buffer and active clamp, etc..…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on Control Strategy of the Bidirectional Full-bridge DC/DC Converter Used in Electric Vehicles

Wang¹,

Wang²,

Rong³

et al. 2016

Energy Procedia

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Design of an efficient fuel cell vehicle drivetrain, featuring a novel boost converter

Cited by 31 publications

References 5 publications

Design and development of an Embedded Control System of a DC/DC power converter for a fuel cell

Design and development of an Embedded Control System of a DC/DC power converter for a fuel cell

Coordination of Vehicle Motion and Energy Management Control Systems for Wheel Motor Driven Vehicles

Research on Control Strategy of the Bidirectional Full-bridge DC/DC Converter Used in Electric Vehicles

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