Symmetry and Power Electronics: Theory, Design, and Applications
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering and Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: power electronics; electric drives; power quality; energy generation; batteries; fuel cells; super capacitors; electric vehicles; motion control
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Interests: power electronics; DC-to-DC power converters; PMSM; electric vehicles
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We cordially invite you to contribute and to help articulate a unified vision of Symmetry and Power Electronics as convergent drivers of technological innovation, robustness, and sustainability.
The aim of this Special Issue is to catalyze collaboration between communities that do not always publish in the same venues: converter designers, control engineers, physicists working on invariance and group structure, and researchers in high-reliability energy systems.
Aims and Motivation
Power electronics has become a core enabler of modern energy systems, allowing for high-efficiency conversion, control, and management of electrical energy in applications ranging from renewable generation and electrified transportation to high-performance drives and smart grids.
Within this broad technological landscape, symmetry emerges as a unifying conceptual and analytical framework. Symmetry governs balance, invariance, duality, and structured redundancy in physical, mathematical, and engineering systems. Its interplay with power electronics enables advances in converter architecture, control robustness, energy quality, and fault tolerance, and directly supports the design of resilient and sustainable energy infrastructures.
This Special Issue seeks not only to capture the latest scientific developments at the intersection of symmetry and power electronics, but also to promote a rigorous, multi-disciplinary dialog between theorists and experimentalists working on high-impact energy conversion technologies worldwide.
Scope and Topics of Interest
We invite you to contribute with original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and advanced perspectives addressing theoretical, computational, and experimental aspects related to symmetry and power electronics. The topics can include but are not limited to the following:
- Symmetrical and dual converter topologies for bidirectional energy conversion;
- Symmetry-based control, modulation, and balancing algorithms (PWM, SVM, predictive control);
- Group-theoretical and invariant modeling of electrical and electronic systems;
- Harmonic symmetry and power quality in renewable, hybrid, and distributed systems;
- Symmetrical analysis in multilevel and multiphase converters and electrical drives;
- Symmetry in electromagnetic field distribution, switching transitions, and power device packaging;
- Applications of symmetry principles in fault-tolerant, redundant, and safety-critical architectures;
- Symmetry-driven optimization in energy storage, microgrids, and grid-interactive power interfaces;
- Mathematical symmetry in signal processing, system identification, and diagnostics for power electronic systems;
- Experimental validation, hardware-in-the-loop, and real-time control platforms exploiting structured symmetry.
Dr. Gerardo Mino-Aguilar
Prof. Dr. Jesús Linares-Flores
Prof. Dr. Edgar Peralta-Sánchez
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- symmetry
- power electronics
- converter topologies
- duality
- multiphase systems
- harmonic analysis
- control algorithms
- energy conversion
- wide-bandgap devices
- system optimization
- renewable energy integration
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