Advanced Control Systems for Electric Drives

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, electric drives have attracted the attention of researchers in emerging fields such as electric vehicles (EV), renewable energy systems (wind, tidal, ocean, etc.) and high precision motion applications. Electric drives are composed of electrical machines, power electronic converters and control systems. Their efficient operation, for position and speed regulation, is determined by the control system. Furthermore, electric drives are a highly nonlinear, multivariable, time-varying system, depending on the type of the electrical machines, and require more complex methods of control. They constitute a theoretical and practical challenging control problem. The main aim of this Special Issue is to seek high-quality submissions that highlight advances in control techniques for electric drives, address the implementation challenges, and the use in emerging fields.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Control algorithms for power electronics converters;
• Adaptive control, robust control, predictive control, and sliding mode control;
• Sensorless control;
• Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control;
• Control of electric drives in electric vehicles (EV)l
• Control of electric drives in renewable energy systems;
• State and parameters estimation;
• Artificial intelligence (neural network, fuzzy logic, etc.) control applications.

Dr. Adel Merabet
Guest Editor

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