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Recent Advances in Design and Verification of Power Electronics

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F3: Power Electronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2026 | Viewed by 1140

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Institute of Automatic Control, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, 65-516 Zielona Góra, Poland
Interests: control systems; formal verification; Petri nets; model checking; cyber–physical systems
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Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: power electronics and its applications in motor drives; wind turbines; PV systems; harmonics; reliability of power electronic systems
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Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark
Interests: isolated dual active bridge converter design and optimization; modeling techniques for power electronics converters; advanced control algorithms for power electronics; artificial intelligence and its applications in power electronics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The recent dynamic development in the area of power electronics has driven continuous progress in all supporting and associated technologies. This includes not only advances in measurement techniques and control algorithms but also innovations in the design, modeling, and verification methods of power electronic systems. As these systems become increasingly complex and widely deployed, the need for robust evaluation methodologies grows accordingly.

Traditionally, the assessment of reliability, performance, and disturbance tolerance has relied on simulations and experimental validation. However, with the increasing integration of power electronics into safety-critical applications—such as renewable energy systems, electric transportation, and smart grids—these evaluation methods must evolve toward more formal, precise, and scalable approaches. In this context, there is a clear and growing demand for advanced verification techniques that can ensure safe, reliable, and precise operation of power electronic systems under a wide range of conditions and uncertainties. These techniques may include formal verification, model-based design, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and hybrid approaches that combine analytical rigor with practical testing.

This Special Issue is now open for submissions and welcomes original research articles and reviews addressing advanced design, testing, and verification methods in power electronics systems. It calls for cutting-edge contributions to fundamental theoretical research, as well as application-based research.

This Special Issue covers, but is not limited to, the following topics:

  • Advanced modeling techniques for power electronics.
  • Artificial intelligence in testing and verification.
  • Control algorithm verification and validation.
  • Digital twins for power electronics validation.
  • Formal methods in power electronics.
  • Hardware-in-the-loop testing.
  • Model-based design and validation.
  • Parameter identification and estimation methods in power electronics.
  • Reliability in power electronics.
  • Safety-critical power electronics applications.
  • Scalable methods for system-level verification.
  • Simulation-based evaluation.
  • Testing and certification of power electronics.
  • Verification of power electronic systems.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Iwona Grobelna
Prof. Dr. Frede Blaabjerg
Dr. Ning Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • power electronics
  • energy harvesting
  • renewable energy systems
  • electric transportation
  • smart grid
  • design
  • modeling
  • control
  • verification

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Analysis of Common-Source CoolMOS FETs-Based Bidirectional Switch Gate Driver for Vienna Rectifier Application
by Petr Cyprich, Pavel Cyprich, Jan Strossa, Vladislav Damec, Martin Sobek and Marcin Zygmanowski
Energies 2026, 19(11), 2593; https://doi.org/10.3390/en19112593 - 27 May 2026
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The rapid growth of electromobility and the increasing deployment of EV chargers emphasize the importance of pulse rectifiers with built-in power factor correction (PFC) filters. The new switching power devices offer higher converter switching frequencies, which enable a decrease in nominal values of [...] Read more.
The rapid growth of electromobility and the increasing deployment of EV chargers emphasize the importance of pulse rectifiers with built-in power factor correction (PFC) filters. The new switching power devices offer higher converter switching frequencies, which enable a decrease in nominal values of passive components, such as inductors and capacitors, and their physical dimensions. Devices like CoolMOS and GaN enable operation with low switching power, but are usually constructed for lower drain-source voltage. From this point of view, the Vienna Rectifier is a prospective type of pulse rectifier with built-in PFC because of its reduced blocking-voltage requirements for the power transistors. Nevertheless, faster switching semiconductor devices with lower switching gate charge require more precise driving circuit tuning and setup. There are many scientific papers focused on the driving setup and techniques of the power transistors applied in H-bridge topologies. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the commutation loop and the related switching phenomena of the Vienna Rectifier topology. This paper evaluates the driver setup for a CoolMOS-based Vienna Rectifier with anti-serial connection of transistors forming a bidirectional switch. The switching transients are analyzed and simulated. Subsequently, the real driver settings are evaluated on the real prototype. Full article
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A Two-Layer Rolling Optimization Method for Traction Power Supply Systems Based on Model Predictive Control
by Hongbo Cheng, Qiang Gao, Shouxing Wan, Jinqing Xu and Xing Wang
Energies 2026, 19(7), 1751; https://doi.org/10.3390/en19071751 - 2 Apr 2026
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With the integration of renewable energy into traction power supply systems at a high proportion and penetration level, the intermittency and randomness of renewable energy output significantly intensify the fluctuation characteristics of traction loads, posing severe challenges to the stable operation and precise [...] Read more.
With the integration of renewable energy into traction power supply systems at a high proportion and penetration level, the intermittency and randomness of renewable energy output significantly intensify the fluctuation characteristics of traction loads, posing severe challenges to the stable operation and precise dispatch of the system. To effectively address the dynamic tracking and anti-disturbance issues arising from the dual uncertainties of source and load, this paper proposes a dual-timescale two-layer optimization dispatch strategy based on Model Predictive Control (MPC). In the upper-layer optimization, with the objective of optimal system economic operation, a multi-step rolling optimization method is adopted to formulate a long-timescale baseline dispatch plan, fully considering the temporal correlation of photovoltaic and wind power outputs and the periodic characteristics of traction loads. In the lower-layer optimization, aimed at smoothing power fluctuations and correcting prediction deviations, the technical advantages of supercapacitors—high power density and fast response—are utilized to perform real-time tracking and dynamic compensation of the upper-layer baseline plan. This effectively reduces the impact of prediction errors on control accuracy, achieves smooth control of tie-line power, and enhances overall system stability. Case study results based on an actual railway traction power supply system demonstrate that the proposed method can fully leverage the coordinated and complementary characteristics of the hybrid energy storage system, effectively suppress power fluctuations from renewable energy output and traction loads, and achieve economic operation objectives while ensuring system disturbance rejection performance, thereby validating the effectiveness and practicality of the strategy. Full article
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