Abstract:Based on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS),a combined pattern recognition method is proposed for proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) fault diagnosis. By fitting typical frequency points, quickly drawing EIS for suppressing lowfrequency points “drift”, taking two intersections with the real axis of the EIS (high frequency intersection and low frequency intersection)as fault diagnosis eigenvector values, a combined algorithm of Fuzzy Cmeans Algorithm and Support Vector Machine is used to cluster sample eigenvectors and classify under test eigenvectors. Simulation is developed in MATLAB by using experimental data from the published papers, results show the proposed method is fast and effective.