Nonlinear Disturbance Observer-based sliding mode control of interleaved boost converter for fuel cell used in microgrids
Résumé
In microgrids, the use of fuel cells (FCs) supplied with hydrogen as a
type of clean energy is continuously rising. Integrating FCs into
microgrids has shown interesting advantages in improving the performance
of microgrids and promoting the use of hydrogen energy. They are
usually associated with other sources of energy, mostly intermittent, to
feed a DC bus. However, FCs are current intensive sources that produce
electricity at low voltage. DC-DC converters are used to adapt the FC
voltage to the DC bus level. The suitable converter topology and the
selected controller are also requested in most applications with stable
output voltage and power quality. In this paper, nonlinear disturbance
observer (NDOB)-based sliding mode control is proposed to the
interleaved boost converter (IBC) to enhance the output robustness and
weaken the influences brought by uncertainties in the input voltage and
the load resistance. Rigorous stable analysis of NDOBs and global
systems are presented and proved by Lyapunov functions. Last, the
simulations were performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed
controller in light of the varying load resistance and input voltage.