A nonlinear H-infinity approach to optimal control of PEM fuel cells
A new nonlinear H-infinity control approach is applied to PEM fuel cells. First, the dynamic model of the PEM fuel cells undergoes approximate linearisation, through Taylor series expansion, round local operating points which are defined at each time instant by the present value of the system's state vector and the last value of the control input that was exerted on it. The linearisation procedure requires the computation of Jacobian matrices at the aforementioned operating points.