Abstract:In view of the strong coupling between air mass flow and back pressure in the air supply system of high pressure proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), a robust decoupling controller that combined the principal of internal model control (IMC) with multiple variable decouple control theory is proposed. The simulation results show that the internal modeldecoupling controller can not only provide a nice decoupling, but also get a much better robust performance compared with the traditional proportionintegralderivative (PID) decoupling controller when the real system does not match well with the nominal model; moreover, the proposed controller is also featured with less controller parameters and easy to be tuned.