“…The air compressor delivers the needed air (with about 21% oxygen) for the electrochemical reaction, ensuring an oxygen excess ratio higher than 1, to avoid the oxygen starvation phenomenon (which might appear during the load pulses) [6,27,28]. The oxygen excess ratio is controlled using different techniques, as follows-(1) feed-forward control [26,29]; (2) PID-based control [30] and its variants (such as optimal PID plus fuzzy controller [31]), feed-forward PID controller [32], and robust PI control [33]; (3) control techniques based on artificial intelligence concepts like fuzzy logic [34,35], neural networks [36], and genetic operators [37]; (4) model predictive control (MPC) based on constrained model [38], linearization method of the model [39,40], and multivariable nonlinear MPC [41,42]; (5) sliding control using the adaptive sliding mode (Lyapunov-based) [43], high-order sliding mode [44,45], sliding mode (nonlinear multivariable) [46], cascade adaptive sliding mode [47], or a combination of sliding mode with flatness control [48] and super-twisting algorithms [49,50]; (6) robust control based on reduced order model [51] or a load governor [52]; and (7) model reference adaptive control (MRAC) [53].…”