Observation and Control of a Fuel Cell System for Electric Vehicle Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions for a Special Issue of Energies entitled “Observation and Control of a Fuel Cell System for Electric Vehicle Applications”.

Electric vehicles based on hydrogen fuel cell propulsion are promising and are considered environmentally friendly as their byproducts are water and heat. The hydrogen fuel cell is used in combination with storage devices to power the electric motor propulsion of EV. The energy management problem (observation and control) of EV-based HFC is a crucial problem that has been tackled by the international control community over recent years in relation to the introduction of electrical and hybrid vehicle technology.

This Special Issue aims to present developments or adaptions of the more recent observation and control methodologies to the energy management problem through fuel cells and their integration with other devices such as batteries, supercapacitors, or loads.

This investigation may include the following two approaches:

The first takes into account the fuel cell dynamics in the energy management loop.

The second does not consider the fuel cell dynamics in energy management but imposes some specific constraints with respect to fuel cell output.

This Special Issue will focus on emerging power electronic topologies and applications for power systems and motor drives. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

- Observation in electric vehicles based on hydrogen fuel cell propulsion;

- Control in electric vehicles based on hydrogen fuel cell propulsion;

- Power management in electric vehicles based on hydrogen fuel cell propulsion.

Prof. Malek Ghanes
Guest Editor

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