Advanced Control of Power Electronic Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F3: Power Electronics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2026 | Viewed by 157
Editors
Interests: renewable energy; power electronics; nonlinear control; sliding mode
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Interests: renewable energy systems; microgrids; smart grids; AI integrated energy systems
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Interests: renewable energy; photovoltaics; power systems; renewables integration; battery storage; smart grids
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Interests: designing and developing power electronics technologies and products; solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems; renewable energy systems; battery storage and grid integration; DC microgrids; electric vehicle systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Power electronic systems are central to modern energy conversion and electrification, supporting renewable energy integration, energy storage, electric transportation, microgrids, motor drives, and converter-dominated power systems. As these applications become increasingly dynamic, distributed, and performance-critical, there is growing demand for advanced control strategies that can ensure fast dynamic response, robustness against uncertainties and disturbances, high efficiency, improved power quality, and reliable operation over a wide range of operating conditions.
Recent advances in predictive, adaptive, observer-based, nonlinear, data-driven, and AI-assisted control are creating new opportunities for both theoretical development and practical deployment in power electronic systems. At the same time, emerging applications such as grid-forming and grid-following converters, renewable energy interfaces, electric vehicle charging systems, solid-state transformers, and hybrid AC/DC energy systems require control solutions that are not only analytically rigorous but also practically implementable and experimentally validated.
This Special Issue aims to bring together high-quality original research articles and review papers on the analysis, design, implementation, and application of advanced control methods for power electronic systems. Contributions addressing converter-level, system-level, and application-oriented challenges are all welcome, particularly where practical relevance is demonstrated through digital implementation, real-time simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or experimental validation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced control of DC–DC, AC–DC, DC–AC, and AC–AC power converters;
- Nonlinear, robust, adaptive, predictive, optimal, and data-driven control methods;
- Observer-based estimation, sensorless control, and disturbance rejection techniques;
- AI-assisted control, tuning, and design optimization for power electronic systems;
- Control of grid-forming and grid-following converters, synchronization, and weak-grid operation;
- Stability analysis, transient performance enhancement, and power quality improvement;
- Fault-tolerant, resilient, and secure control of converter-interfaced systems;
- Control of power electronic systems for renewable energy, energy storage, electric vehicles, motor drives, HVDC, and microgrids;
- Digital control implementation, DSP/FPGA-based realization, real-time simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and experimental validation;
- Co-design of converter hardware, modulation, and control for high-performance applications.
Dr. Pooyan Alinaghi Hosseinabadi
Dr. Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian
Dr. Evan Franklin
Dr. Waqas Hassan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- power electronic systems
- advanced control
- power converters
- renewable energy integration
- grid-forming converters
- model predictive control
- sliding mode control
- robust control
- data-driven control
- digital control
- hardware-in-the-loop
- experimental validation
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