Trends and Prospects in Analysis and Control of Power Electronics

Dear Colleagues,

Due to rapid industrial technology innovation and the increasingly severe challenges of new energies, the fields of information technology, electric vehicles and new energy power generation have become global hot spots. Their efficient and stable operation is inseparable from high-quality and reliable power electronic equipment. Thus, topologies, modeling, analysis, and control of power electronics are key for power supply systems. In particular, the emergence of new control methods, such as fractional-order control, predictive control, etc., and new circuit elements, including fractional-order inductor, fractional-order capacitor, memristor, meminductor, memcapacitor, etc., brings new opportunities and challenges to the forefront of analysis, control, and design of power electronics to meet the requirements for system efficiency, power supply stability, and power density in actual industrial applications.

This Special Issue aims to gather research on novel power electronic converters, novel control methods for power electronic systems, analysis of bifurcation and chaos in the power electronic systems, as well as the applications of new circuit elements for power electronic systems. Stability and dynamic characteristics of power electronic systems are also required.

Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions, survey papers, or tutorials for publication in this Special Issue. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

• Topology of power electronic converter;
• Modeling and analysis of power electronics;
• Bifurcation and chaos in power electronics;
• Control methods for power electronics;
• Fractional-order power electronics;
• Fractional-order control and its application in power electronics;
• Power electronics with memristor, meminductor, or memcapacitor.

Dr. Faqiang Wang
Guest Editor

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