Control strategy of fuel cell electric vehicle including degradation process

This paper proposes an energy management for fuel cell electric vehicle taking into account the fuel cell degradation during its lifetime. The aim of the study is to design a control strategy which manage a power converter in order to use the fuel cell system as a range extender by preventing the batteries state of charge to drop too quickly. The presented controller use both batteries state of charge and fuel cell degradation estimation to control the fuel cell power.