Table Of ContentSpringer Theses
Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
Yashan Xing
Modeling
and Control
Strategies for a
Fuel Cell System
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Yashan Xing
Modeling and Control
Strategies for a Fuel Cell
System
Doctoral Thesis accepted by
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Author Supervisors
Dr.YashanXing Dr.RamonCosta-Castelló
UniversitatPolitècnicadeCatalunya UniversitatPolitècnicadeCatalunya
InstitutdeRobòticaiInformàticaIndustrial InstitutdeRobòticaiInformàticaIndustrial
CSIC-UPC CSIC-UPC
Barcelona,Spain Barcelona,Spain
Prof.JingNa
FacultyofMechanicalandElectrical
EngineeringKunming
UniversityofScienceandTechnology
Kunming,China
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Supervisors’ Foreword
In the current context of the current climate crisis, hydrogen technologies can
contributesignificantlytothereductionofpollutingemissionsandtheenergystorage
necessaryfortheimplementationofrenewableenergies.Unfortunately,theelements
involvedinthegenerationofhydrogenortheproductionofelectricalenergyfrom
hydrogen,suchaselectrolysersandfuelcells,areverynon-linearsystemsandwith
a large number of parameters whose value is uncertain or unknown, this makes it
difficulttotheircontrolandefficientuse.Inthisthesis,onlineparameterestimation
methodologies and control algorithms applied to fuel cells have been developed.
These algorithms have significantly improved the existing algorithms up to now
and it is to be hoped that they will imply an important impulse to the use of these
technologiesinanefficientway.
Barcelona,Spain Dr.RamonCosta-Castelló
October2022 Prof.JingNa
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Partsofthisthesishavebeenpublishedinthefollowingdocuments:
Journals
Y.Xing,J.Na,andR.Costa-Castelló,“Real-timeAdaptiveParameterEstimationfor
aPolymerElectrolyteMembraneFuelCell,”IEEETrans.Ind.Informatics,pp.1–1,
2019.
J.Na,Y.Xing,andR.Costa-Castelló,“AdaptiveEstimationofTime-VaryingParam-
etersWithApplicationtoRoto-MagnetPlant,”IEEETransactionsonSystems,Man,
andCybernetics:Systems,pp.1–11,2018.
Y.Xing,R.Costa-Castelló,J.Na,andH.Renaudineau,“Control-orientedmodelling
andanalysisofasolidoxidefuelcellsystem,”Int.J.HydrogenEnergy,vol.45,no.
40,pp.20659–20672,Mar.2020.
Y.Xing,R.Costa-Castelló,andJ.Na,“TemperatureControlforaProton-Exchange
MembraneFuelCellSystemwithUnknownDynamicCompensations,”Complexity,
vol.2020,pp.1–14,Oct.2020.
Y.Xing,J.Na,M.Chen,R.Costa-Castelló,andV.Roda,“AdaptiveNonlinearParam-
eterEstimationforaProtonExchangeMembraneFuelCell,”IEEETransactionson
PowerElectronics,vol.37,no.8,pp.9012–9023,2022.
Y.Xing,L.Bernadet,M.Torrell,A.Tarancón,R.Costa-CastellóandJ.Na,“Offline
andonlineparameterestimationofnonlinearsystems:Applicationtoasolidoxide
fuelcellsystem,”ISATransactions,https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/
pii/S0019057822003767,2022.
InternationalConferences
Y.Xing,J.Na,andR.Costa-Castelló,“AdaptiveOnlineParameterEstimationAlgo-
rithmofPEMFuelCells,”201918thEuropeanControlConference(ECC),pp.441–
446,2019.
Y. Xing, J. Na, and R. Costa-Castelló, “Composite PID Control with Unknown
DynamicsEstimatorforRotomagnetPlant,”PapersOnLine,vol.51,no.4,pp.817–
822,2018.
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Acknowledgment
Thisdoctoralthesisistheresultofextensiveresearchcollaborationsduringthelast
fouryears.HerebyIwouldliketoexpressthedeepsenseofgratitudetothosewho
supportedandhelpedmetofinishthismanuscript.
Iwouldliketothankmyadvisors,Prof.JingNaandDr.RamonCosta-Castelló
fortheirsupport,cooperation,andencouragementduringmydoctoraljourney.First,
IwouldliketothankthemtogivemethisopportunitytopursuitmyPh.D.degreein
UniversitatPolitècnicadeCatalunya.Duringthestudyperiod,theyhavebeengiven
a lot of advice and suggestion to solve problems in both academic and livelihood
aspects.Consequently,Ihaveenjoyedmyresearchlife,learnedagreatdealofknowl-
edgeandexperienceddifferentcultures.Besides,Iamkeenlyawareofthebenefitsof
studyingabroad.Althoughitisdifficulttoexplainthedetailofthoseadvantages,Iam
verygratefulfortheexperienceofstudyingabroad.HerebyIwouldliketoexpress
mysincerestgratitudetomyadvisors,Prof.JingNaandDr.RamonCosta-Castelló.
IwouldliketothankmanycolleaguesandfriendsinInstitutdeRobòticaiInfor-
màticaIndustrial,CSIC-UPC.Mostofthemarethelocalpeople,whodonotneedto
knowtheinformationaboutvisaandrentinganapartment.Withtheirhelp,Icould
easilydealwithvisaandaccommodationissues.Therefore.Iwouldliketoexpress
the deep sense of gratitude to them. Finally, I would like to express my sincerest
gratitudetomyparentsfortheirpatienceandsupport.
Financial Support: My research was partially funded by Chinese Scholarship
Council(CSC)undergrant201808390007.TheresearchwassupportedbyNational
NaturalScienceFoundationofChinaundergrants62273169,61922037,61873115
and 62203194 and partially supported by Yunnan Fundamental Research Project
undergrant202001AV070001.TheresearchwasalsopartiallyfundedbytheSpanish
nationalprojectDOVELAR(ref.RTI2018-096001-B-C32),theAGAURofGener-
alitatdeCatalunyathroughtheAdvancedControlSystems(SAC)groupgrant2017
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xii Acknowledgment
SGR482,andtheSpanishStateResearchAgencythroughtheMaradeMaeztuSeal
ofExcellencetoIRI(MDM-2016-0656).
Barcelona,Spain YashanXing
May2021
