A Nonlinear Observer Design for Fuel Cell Hydrogen Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 101-110

  Arcak, Murat ^a   Görgün, Haluk ^a   Pedersen, Lars Malcolm ^b   Varigonda, Subbarao ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive observers; Fuel cells; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN FUELS; OBSERVABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE OBSERVERS; FUEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS (FPS);

FUEL CELLS;

EID: 12144286528     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2003.821958     Document Type: Article

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