Digital Control of Power Electronics Converters

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few decades, digital control methods and digital controllers have become standard in power electronic converters. The flexibility, ease of upgrading, possibility of executing sophisticated control techniques, and simple implementation of human–machine interfaces are just some of the reasons for the supremacy of digital controllers.

The extraordinary evolution observed in recent years, in terms of microcontrollers (MCUs), digital signal processors (DSPs) and programmable logic devices (CPLDs and FPGAs), has enabled high-performance digital control platforms with a reduced number of components at very competitive prices, thus minimizing the main disadvantages noted about digital controllers; namely, the high cost and low dynamic performance caused by the limited sampling frequency, quantization and computation delays.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences intends to collect and disseminate the latest research and development related to “Digital Control of Power Electronics Converters”. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Predictive control of power electronics converters
• Sliding mode control of power electronics converters
• Adaptive control in power electronics converters and applications
• Fuzzy logic in power electronics converters and applications
• Neural networks in power electronics converters and applications
• Genetic algorithms in power electronics converters and applications
• Fault detection and fault-tolerant control of power electronics converters
• Power flow control and optimization algorithms
• Advanced modulation and control strategies
• Advanced grid synchronization techniques
• New power electronics converters
• Multilevel converters
• Matrix converters
• High voltage dc systems
• Smart grids
• Microgrids
• Energy storage systems
• Distributed generation
• Renewable energy systems
• Electric vehicles
• Power quality

Dr. José Gabriel Oliveira Pinto
Guest Editor

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