Supervisor control for stand-alone photovoltaic/hydrogen/ battery bank system to supply energy to an electric vehicle

•Power management of photovoltaic system hybrid power.•Photovoltaic system hybrid power system (HPS) is used to produce energy without interruption.•Fuel cells system.

In this paper, supervisor control for stand-alone hybrid power system to supply energy to an electric vehicle is presented. The hybrid system is used to produce energy without interruption and it consists of a photovoltaic generator (PV), a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) and a battery bank. PV and PEMFC systems work in parallel via DC/DC converter and the battery bank is used to store the excess of energy. The mathematical model topology, the identification of each subsystem and the control supervision of the global system are the contribution of this paper. Obtained results under Matlab/Simulink and some experimental ones are presented and discussed.