The “Systems & Control Engineering” Section of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) provides the field of electrical and computer engineering with a unified paradigm for designing controllers in a variety of application domains. Initially developed in the context of electrical engineering, this dynamic field has come to represent an essential enabling and supporting technology for a wide range of sectors (energy, transport, manufacturing, biology, defense, robotics, etc.).

This Section is devoted to publishing focused articles related to control aspects of electronics and engineering systems, more specifically including theoretical developments and applications of control engineering as embedded control systems, mechatronics, smart systems, power systems, electrical circuits, and computer science, for the enhancement of electronic systems and processes.

You have free and unlimited access to the full texts of all the open access articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 and 2023 below:

1. “Minimal-Approximation-Based Adaptive Event-Triggered Control of Switched Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Control Direction”
by Yumeng Cao, Ning Zhao, Ning Xu, Xudong Zhao and Fawaz E. Alsaadi
Electronics 2022, 11(20), 3386; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11203386
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/20/3386

2. “Review of Collision Avoidance and Path Planning Algorithms Used in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”
by Rafał Kot
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2301; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152301
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2301

3. “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Dual-UAV Reconnaissance Mission Planning”
by Xiaoru Zhao, Rennong Yang, Ying Zhang, Mengda Yan and Longfei Yue
Electronics 2022, 11(13), 2031; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11132031
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/13/2031

4. “Real-Time ISR-YOLOv4 Based Small Object Detection for Safe Shop Floor in Smart Factories”
by Byungjin Ku, Kangsan Kim and Jongpil Jeong
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2348; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152348
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2348

5. “Multiparameter Identification of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Based on Model Reference Adaptive System—Simulated Annealing Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm”
by Guoyong Su, Pengyu Wang, Yongcun Guo, Gang Cheng, Shuang Wang and Dongyang Zhao
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 159; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11010159
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/1/159

6. “Vertiport Operations Modeling, Agent-Based Simulation and Parameter Value Specification”
by Lukas Preis and Mirko Hornung
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1071; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071071
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1071

7. “Automatic Weight Prediction System for Korean Cattle Using Bayesian Ridge Algorithm on RGB-D Image”
by Myung Hwan Na, Wan Hyun Cho, Sang Kyoon Kim and In Seop Na
Electronics 2022, 11(10), 1663; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11101663
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/10/1663

8. “Energy Management Strategies for Hybrid Energy Storage Systems Based on Filter Control: Analysis and Comparison”
by Germán Andrés Ramos and Ramon Costa-Castelló
Electronics 2022, 11(10), 1631; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11101631
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/10/1631

9. “Supervisor Design for a Pressurized Reactor Unit in the Presence of Sensor and Actuator Faults”
by Fotis N. Koumboulis, Dimitrios G. Fragkoulis, Ioannis Kalkanas and George F. Fragulis
Electronics 2022, 11(16), 2534; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162534
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/16/2534

10. “ASSIST-IoT: A Modular Implementation of a Reference Architecture for the Next Generation Internet of Things”
by Paweł Szmeja, Alejandro Fornés-Leal, Ignacio Lacalle, Carlos E. Palau, Maria Ganzha, Wiesław Pawłowski, Marcin Paprzycki and Johan Schabbink
Electronics 2023, 12(4), 854; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040854
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/4/854

11. “The Application of Improved Harmony Search Algorithm to Multi-UAV Task Assignment”
by Yujuan Cui, Wenhan Dong, Duoxiu Hu and Haibo Liu
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1171; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081171
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/8/1171

12. “Improved Linear Quadratic Regulator Lateral Path Tracking Approach Based on a Real-Time Updated Algorithm with Fuzzy Control and Cosine Similarity for Autonomous Vehicles”
by Zhaoqiang Wang, Keyang Sun, Siqun Ma, Lingtao Sun, Wei Gao and Zhuangzhuang Dong
Electronics 2022, 11(22), 3703; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11223703
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/22/3703

13. “Bin-Picking Solution for Randomly Placed Automotive Connectors Based on Machine Learning Techniques”
by Pedro Torres, Janis Arents, Hugo Marques and Paulo Marques
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 476; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030476
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/476

14. “Model Reference Adaptive Control of Marine Permanent Magnet Propulsion Motor Based on Parameter Identification”
by Yubo Huang, Jundong Zhang, Dong Chen and Jiahao Qi
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1012; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071012
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1012

15. “Improved Rapidly Exploring Random Tree with Bacterial Mutation and Node Deletion for Offline Path Planning of Mobile Robot”
by Aphilak Lonklang and János Botzheim
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1459; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091459
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1459