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Digital Control to Power Electronics, 2nd Edition
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Digital Control to Power Electronics, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Power Electronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2025 | Viewed by 1283

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Manuel Moreno-Eguilaz

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Department of Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia, UPC BarcelonaTech, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: deep learning; smart IoT devices; predictive maintenance; secure communications; fault-tolerant systems; identification and control of power converters
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Dr. Álvaro Gómez-Pau

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Department of Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia, UPC BarcelonaTech, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: alternate mixed-signal test; mixed-signal design; integrated circuits; machine learning; fault-tolerant systems; systems reliability
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Power electronics is one of the most important and widely emerging engineering disciplines all over the world. Nowadays, a great effort is focused on power electronics, not only in research but also in development and innovation, which supposes a great business. In the future, electrical energy will be controlled by power electronics and also consumed by power electronics.

In the past, most power converters have been controlled using analog electronics. However, digital control is present in many power converters nowadays. State-of-the-art fast and powerful digital control systems provide new functionalities and performances for power converters. Moreover, all kinds of communications and artificial intelligence may be included in modern power electronics. Complex control algorithms, identification, and online adaptation may be applied in power converters thanks to modern digital control systems.

The main aim of this Special Issue is to seek high-quality submissions that highlight the application of digital control to power electronics, from theory to application. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Fundamentals of digital control systems in power electronics.
  • Microcontrollers, FPGAs, and SoCs applied to power electronics.
  • Application of digital control systems to power electronics.
  • Implementation of control algorithms in digital systems for power electronics.
  • Identification and control of power electronics using digital systems.

Dr. Manuel Moreno
Dr. Álvaro Gómez-Pau
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On Full-Order Flux Observer and Its Discretization for Induction Motor Control
by Peng Zhang, Jie Wang, Yihao Yang, Shuai Liu and Jingtao Huang
Electronics 2025, 14(5), 916; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14050916 - 25 Feb 2025
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Accurate flux observation is crucial for the high-performance control of induction motors (IMs). Implementing a full-order flux observer algorithm in digital controllers requires discretizing the continuous-domain full-order flux observer. However, the errors introduced by discretization increase with rising rotor speed. In the field-weakening [...] Read more.
Accurate flux observation is crucial for the high-performance control of induction motors (IMs). Implementing a full-order flux observer algorithm in digital controllers requires discretizing the continuous-domain full-order flux observer. However, the errors introduced by discretization increase with rising rotor speed. In the field-weakening region, inappropriate discretization methods can lead to significant flux estimation errors, severely affecting the performance of model predictive control-based induction motors and potentially causing system instability. To enhance the convergence speed and stability of the observer and reduce discretization errors in the field-weakening region, this paper designs a feedback gain matrix suitable for high-speed field-weakening regions and conducts a study and summary of commonly used discretization methods. Discrete full-order flux observer models based on the forward Euler method, improved Euler method, and third-order Runge–Kutta method are designed. The discretization error, stability, and model complexity of the observers using these three discretization methods in the field-weakening region are analyzed. The experimental results demonstrate that the improved Euler method can achieve high discretization accuracy with relatively low computational complexity, making it a suitable discretization approach for full-order flux observers. Full article
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Design and Control of the Resonant Auxiliary Circuit for Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) with Fast Load Step Transient
by Yongjia Li, Jianlin Xia, Shen Xu, Encheng Zhu and Weifeng Sun
Electronics 2025, 14(5), 904; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14050904 - 25 Feb 2025
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This paper proposes a transient energy auxiliary supply circuit architecture based on resonant switched-capacitor principles, aimed at optimizing the system’s transient response to meet the growing power supply demands. This paper first introduces the relevant principles of resonant switched-capacitor converters. Based on this, [...] Read more.
This paper proposes a transient energy auxiliary supply circuit architecture based on resonant switched-capacitor principles, aimed at optimizing the system’s transient response to meet the growing power supply demands. This paper first introduces the relevant principles of resonant switched-capacitor converters. Based on this, a transient energy path topology based on resonant principles is designed to achieve bidirectional, fast, and low electromagnetic interference energy transmission. Corresponding system coordination control strategies and high-precision switch control based on delay lines are proposed for the designed circuit topology. A circuit model is built in SIMPLIS (V8.20a) software for system simulation, and a prototype is built based on FPGA to verify circuit functionality and performance. Experimental results demonstrate that the resonant energy auxiliary circuit can operate in conjunction with a six-phase Buck circuit prototype. Under test conditions of a 500 kHz operating frequency, 6.5 V input voltage, and 0.75 V output voltage, the overshoot voltage is reduced by more than 17% across the entire operating range. When the load steps from 200 A to 20 A, the overshoot voltage is reduced to only 85 mV, a decrease of 27.97%, while the recovery time is 28.8 µs, a reduction of 37.66%. These results confirm that the auxiliary circuit can significantly improve the system’s transient response under large load steps, meeting the design requirements. Full article
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