Advanced Power Electronics Converters: Design, Control and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Power converters are essential devices for converting and conditioning electrical power in a controlled and efficient way. There are a wide range of application areas from AC drives, non-conventional renewable energy sources integration, electrical power compensation, battery systems, and electric vehicles to more complex systems such as smart grids, microgrids, etc. Its operation and performance depend on, among other things, the power converter's modulation, synchronization, and control strategy. On the other hand, when there is a hierarchical and distributed control scheme, as in the case of microgrids and smart grids, the communication between the power converters to achieve the different control objectives is also relevant. In general, power converters use digital systems to coordinate their operation in complex systems.

This Special Issue presents relevant developments, tests, and evaluation methodologies of modulation techniques, control strategies, algorithms, and communication, jointly with their implementation in digital systems.

The objective is to report to the community the details of the implementation and validation in digital systems of modulation techniques for two-level converters, multilevel converters, and modular multilevel converters; grid-synchronization algorithms for three-phase or single-phase systems and their applications in weak grids; control strategies for power converters, including linear and non-linear controllers and predictive control, and their application as AC drives, energy integration, power quality, emerging applications, etc.; communication protocols and schemes for power converters, as well as which of these could be replicated in future developments and research of power electronic applications.

Dr. Eduardo Espinosa Neira
Dr. Pedro Eduardo Melín Coloma
Dr. Ricardo Lizana Fuentes
Guest Editors

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• power electronics
• modulation technique
• multilevel converters
• multi-modular converters
• industrial applications
• model predictive control
• semiconductors losses
• digital control