Electronics | Highly Cited Papers in 2024 from the “Industrial Electronics” Section

Industrial electronics play a vital role in improving the efficiency and productivity of industries like energy, transportation, petroleum, chemical, semiconductor, mining, agriculture, and others. As a branch of electronics dealing with power electronic switches, sensors, actuators, meters, intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), automation equipment, semiconductors, nanotechnology, etc., current emphasis is placed on power conditioning using power semiconductor devices in modernizing industry technology.

This Section is devoted to presenting the emerging technologies and trends in the industrial electronics sector, publishing original research and state-of-the-art review articles. The main research area includes applications of industrial electronics and its control, computation, and communication to enrich industrial systems and processes. All submissions are subject to a peer-review process. We encourage the submission of original contributions derived from theoretical- and/or application-oriented research studies.

You have free and unlimited access to the full texts of all of the open access articles published in our journal. We invite you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2024, listed below:

1. “Review of Industry 4.0 from the Perspective of Automation and Supervision Systems: Definitions, Architectures and Recent Trends”
by Francisco Javier Folgado, David Calderón, Isaías González and Antonio José Calderón
Electronics 2024, 13(4), 782; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13040782
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/4/782

2. “A Hybrid Stacking Model for Enhanced Short-Term Load Forecasting”
by Fusen Guo, Huadong Mo, Jianzhang Wu, Lei Pan, Hailing Zhou, Zhibo Zhang, Lin Li and Fengling Huang
Electronics 2024, 13(14), 2719; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13142719
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/14/2719

3. “Optimizing Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Mechanical Vibration for Electrical Efficiency: A Comprehensive Review”
by Demeke Girma Wakshume and Marek Łukasz Płaczek
Electronics 2024, 13(5), 987; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13050987
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/5/987

4. “Optimizing Microgrid Operation: Integration of Emerging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence for Energy Efficiency”
by Paul Arévalo, Danny Ochoa-Correa and Edisson Villa-Ávila
Electronics 2024, 13(18), 3754; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13183754
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/18/3754

5. “State of Health (SOH) Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on ABC-BiGRU”
by Hao Li, Chao Chen, Jie Wei, Zhuo Chen, Guangzhou Lei and Lingling Wu
Electronics 2024, 13(9), 1675; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13091675
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/9/1675

6. “Green Energy Management in Manufacturing Based on Demand Prediction by Artificial Intelligence—A Review”
by Izabela Rojek, Dariusz Mikołajewski, Adam Mroziński and Marek Macko
Electronics 2024, 13(16), 3338; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13163338
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/16/3338

7. “Integration of Legacy Industrial Equipment in a Building-Management System Industry 5.0 Scenario”
by Adrian Korodi, Ioana-Victoria Nițulescu, Adriana-Anamaria Fülöp, Vlad-Cristian Vesa, Petru Demian, Robert-Adelin Braneci and Daniel Popescu
Electronics 2024, 13(16), 3229; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13163229
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/16/3229

8. “UBO-EREX: Uncertainty Bayesian-Optimized Extreme Recurrent EXpansion for Degradation Assessment of Wind Turbine Bearings”
by Tarek Berghout and Mohamed Benbouzid
Electronics 2024, 13(12), 2419; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13122419
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/12/2419

9. “State of the Art and Future Trends in Monitoring for Industrial Induction Heating Applications”
by Vicente Esteve, Juan L. Bellido and José Jordán
Electronics 2024, 13(13), 2591; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13132591
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/13/2591

10. “The Change in Maintenance Strategy on the Efficiency and Quality of the Production System”
by Miroslav Rakyta, Peter Bubenik, Vladimira Binasova, Gabriela Gabajova and Katarina Staffenova
Electronics 2024, 13(17), 3449; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13173449
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/17/3449