Advanced Power Electronics and Intelligent Actuation for Next-Generation Energy Systems
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "High Torque/Power Density Actuators".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 240
Special Issue Editors
Interests: control systems; power systems; power electronics; electric machines; smart grid; renewable and distributed energy resources; power quality and energy management; real-time simulations
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2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Interests: modeling and control of nonlinear dynamic systems; adaptive and intelligent control theory; soft-computing and machine intelligence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid evolution of modern energy infrastructures, autonomous platforms, and smart industrial systems requires advanced actuation technologies and highly efficient power-electronic interfaces. This Special Issue focuses on emerging trends, methodologies, and applications that integrate intelligent actuation, advanced control strategies, and high-performance power electronics to enhance the reliability, efficiency, and autonomy of next-generation energy systems. Topics of interest include innovative actuator designs, intelligent switching and modulation techniques, AI-driven control algorithms, energy-aware actuation, condition monitoring, and fault-tolerant operation in distributed and cyber–physical environments. By bridging the fields of actuation, control engineering, and power electronics, this Special Issue aims to highlight research that enables more resilient, adaptive, and energy-efficient systems capable of meeting the demands of future smart grids, autonomous vehicles, renewable-energy platforms, and industrial automation.
Topics of Interest
- Intelligent actuators, advanced electromechanical drives, and smart actuator materials;
- High-efficiency power-electronic converters for energy and motion control;
- Wide-bandgap (SiC/GaN) devices for next-generation actuator interfaces;
- Advanced switching, modulation, and gate-drive techniques;
- AI-driven, adaptive, optimal, and model-predictive control for actuators;
- Energy-optimized actuation in smart grids, microgrids, and distributed energy systems;
- Power-electronic interfaces for renewable-energy conversion (solar, wind, storage);
- Actuation and control in electrified transportation (EVs, HEVs, drones, e-mobility);
- Robotic actuation systems and high-precision motion control;
- Soft actuators, micro/nano-actuators, and emerging actuator technologies;
- Condition monitoring, health diagnostics, and prognostics of actuators;
- Fault-tolerant control and resilient operation in cyber–physical environments;
- Digital twins for actuators and power-electronic systems;
- Real-time control implementation, HIL simulation, and embedded systems;
- Sensor–actuator–controller integration for autonomous platforms;
- Distributed and networked control for actuator-rich smart systems.
Dr. Mohamad Alzayed
Dr. Hicham Chaoui
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent actuation
- advanced power electronics
- energy-aware systems
- AI-enabled control
- cyber–physical systems
- renewable-energy actuation
- smart grids and microgrids
- model-predictive control
- high-efficiency drives
- fault-tolerant and resilient control
- electrified transportation
- solid-state actuators
- adaptive and learning-based control
- multi-domain energy systems
- real-time embedded control
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