Modeling and Passivity-Based Control of Hybrid Sources: Fuel Cell and Supercapacitors

Fuel cell (FC) constitutes a good alternative for using clean energy in embarked systems. To overcome several difficulties in using FCs as unique energy sources, the association of supercapacitor (SC) as power sources is proposed. A recent approach of passivity-based control (PBC) is the interconnection and damping assignment (IDA-PBC) which is a very useful technique to control systems assigning a desired port-controlled Hamiltonian (PCH) structure to the closed-loop. This paper constitutes a first attempt to use energy principles and PBC to regulate hybrid sources for embarked electric energy system