Table 3 Experimental data comparison of different Controllers.

From: Optimal fuel cell control modeling with feedback linearization and adaptive sliding mode control

Performance Metric

PID

SMC

FLC-ASMC

Performance Improvement

(FLC-ASMC vs. Others)

Experiment 1 (Pure Step Disturbance)

Settling Time (s)

1.50

1.30

0.95

\(\:\uparrow\:\) 37% (vs. PID), \(\:\uparrow\:\) 27% (vs. SMC)

Overshoot (%)

0.10

0.12

0.053

\(\:\downarrow\:\) 47% (vs. PID), \(\:\downarrow\:\) 56% (vs. SMC)

Experiment 2 (Step + Sine Disturbance)

Settling Time (s)

1.60

1.35

0.44

\(\:\uparrow\:\) 73% (vs. PID), \(\:\uparrow\:\) 67% (vs. SMC)

Overshoot (%)

0.10

0.089

0.048

\(\:\downarrow\:\) 52% (vs. SMC), \(\:\downarrow\:\) 46% (vs. PID)