Advanced Control Strategies for Electric Power Management

Dear Colleagues,

In the last two decades, the approach to the design of controllers for power management in electrical applications has been rapidly evolving due to the latest advancements in nonlinear control techniques for continuous and/or switched systems such as backstepping, high-order sliding mode, Lyapunov-based control approach, and model predictive control. Indeed, most electrical applications are required to function around several operating points. Therefore, the classical approach dating back to the 1940s, consisting in the adoption of proportional–integral–derivative controllers designed according to a locally linearized version of the nonlinear system, does not suffice. Advanced control strategies exploiting the nonlinear nature of switching, complex electrical systems allow for a larger operational range and for increased robustness. Moreover, nonlinear control strategies are capable of taking into account control bounds, finite time set-point tracking, limited control rate, and assessed stability for time-varying operations. This methodology can be adopted in several fields related to the power management of electrical systems.

As a reference, we list some topics of interest for this Special Issue:

• Electric and hybrid terrestrial vehicles;
• Power generation and distribution for electric aircraft;
• Microgrids for power sharing;
• Distribution of renewable energy.

Prof. Dr. Alberto Cavallo
Dr. Antonio Russo
Guest Editors

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