Fault-Tolerant Constrained MPC of PEM Fuel Cells

In this paper, fault tolerant constrained MPC control of fuel cells is presented. MPC is one of the control methodologies that can introduce more easily fault-tolerance. Here this capability is extended using new results on explicit MPC control. Explicit MPC control allows to derive off-line the control without need of using optimization. Moreover, since it is based on parametric programming allows to introduce as additional parameters faults what allow in real-time to change controller gains without the need of recomputing the MPC controller or having a bank of pre-computed MPC controllers.
Finally, the proposed approach is assessed on a known test bench PEM fuel cell.