An enhanced efficient optimization algorithm (EINFO) for accurate extraction of proton exchange membrane fuel cell parameters

Abstract

In order to assure accurate modelling, this study presents a new technique for appropriately modelling and simulating a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) system. The PEMFC is a cleaner and more sustainable energy source as compared to fossil fuels. The fundamental idea is to minimize the sum of squared error (SSE) between the estimated and measured output voltage for the Ballard Mark V model in order to identify the model parameters of PEMFC stacks as efficiently as possible using a newly developed meta-heuristic called enhanced efficient optimization algorithm (EINFO). The proposed optimizer is considered an enhanced version of the original INFO algorithm. By balancing the exploration and exploitation phases better, the EINFO algorithm is intended to improve the performance of the original INFO approach and prevent local optima. The new method was tested on 23 benchmark functions and compared to the original INFO algorithm as well as other recently evolved optimizers. The algorithm is examined and compared with some literature meta-heuristics, including the particle swarm optimization, sine cosine algorithm, dragonfly algorithm, atom search optimization, Harris hawks optimization, and efficient optimization algorithm, using 50 independent runs, in terms of convergence speed and least SSE. When compared to other methods, the final findings show that, the suggested technique achieves the fastest convergence speed.