Advanced Technology for Power Conversion and Control

Dear Colleagues,

Power electronics converters play a major role in various applications, such as renewable energy generation, electrical vehicles, battery energy storage systems, solid state transformers, etc., in efficient system management and power security, beyond simply interfacing between power sources and loads. Furthermore, the increased demand for green energy requires power converters to feature intelligent operation as well as higher power capacity.

This Special Issue covers new architectures, topologies, control algorithms, and reliabilities for power converters. Novel architectures, such as multilevel and modular, need to be developed, as well as strategies for optimized design of prior art/new structures. Topologies and intelligent control algorithms for efficient and reliable systems are of interest to this Special Issue, as well as the reliability issue, which has emerged in order to ensure power security, and condition monitoring and fault-tolerant methods and active thermal control.

More specifically, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Architecture:

• Novel architectures: multilevel, modular, etc.;
• Design optimization: efficiency, volume, cost, etc.;
• Innovative topologies: soft switching, resonant, etc.;
• Modeling and simulation;

Control and Modulation:

• Advanced control algorithms in converter level and system level;
• Artificial intelligence techniques for advanced systems;
• Modulation strategies for efficient and reliable systems;

Reliability:

• Condition monitoring and fault-tolerant operation;
• Active thermal control of power electronics components and systems;
• Lifetime predictions of power electronic components and systems;
• Reliability testing and evaluation methods of power electronic components and systems.

Prof. Dr. Youngjong Ko
Prof. Dr. Ui-Min Choi
Prof. Dr. June-Seok Lee
Guest Editors

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