Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are promising clear and efficient new energy sources. An excellent control system is a normal working prerequisite for maintaining a fuel cell system in correct operating conditions. Conventional controllers could not satisfy the high performance to obtain the acceptable responses because of uncertainty, time-change, nonlinear, long-hysteresis and st...

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are promising clear and efficient new energy sources. An excellent control system is a normal working prerequisite for maintaining a fuel cell system in correct operating conditions. Conventional controllers could not satisfy the high performance to obtain the acceptable responses because of uncertainty, time-change, nonlinear, long-hysteresis and st...

Controllers for parallel manipulators can be designed in task space or joint space, each having its own advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, integral sliding mode controllers designed in joint space and in task space are compared using MATLAB simulation. In both cases, genetic algorithm is used to determine optimal sliding surface gain. The performance and robustness, smoothness of cont...

This manuscript addresses trajectory tracking problem of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) on the horizontal plane. Adaptive sliding mode control is employed in order to achieve a robust behavior against some uncertainty and ocean current disturbances, assuming that disturbance and its derivative are bounded by unknown boundary levels. The proposed approach is based on a dual layer adaptive...

In this paper, de-coupled discrete-time sliding-mode tracking controllers are designed for an x-y sliding table driven directly by linear motors. The controllers are designed using an integrated reaching law method, based on a simplified model of the current control loop of these motors. To achieve high bandwidth tracking performance, a feedforward controller is added. Although the sliding tabl...

This paper addresses the decoupled control of the nonlinear, multiinput–multioutput, and highly coupled space station furnace facility (SSFF) thermal control system. Sliding mode control theory, a subset of variable-structure control theory, is employed to increase the performance, robustness, and reliability of the SSFF’s currently designed control system. This paper presents the nonlinear the...

In this paper, the method of robust sliding mode control for a class of switched neutral control systems with mismatched fractional form parametric uncertainties is investigated. A delay-dependent sufficient condition for the existence of linear sliding surfaces is given in term of linear matrix inequality(LMI), and sliding mode controllers based on reaching law are developed, which are to ensu...

-This paper addresses the decoupled control of the nonlinear, multiinput-multioutput, and highly coupled space station furnace facility (SSFF) thermal control system. Sliding mode control theory, a subset of variable-structure control theory, is employed to increase the performance, robustness, and reliability of the SSFF's currently designed control system. This paper presents the nonlinear th...

Robust control of a decoupled induction motor drive is attempted in this paper. Sliding Mode Controller and Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller are designed for the speed loop of the drive. The design steps for both the controllers are laid down clearly. Only four fuzzy rules, and Center-ofSums defuzzification technique are used in the fuzzy controller for simplicity reasons. The performance of the f...