Intelligent Control of Medium and High Power Converters

The growing share of renewable energies, as well as the rising demand for electricity for transport and heating, are increasing the importance of power converters and the requirements for reliability and control. Intelligent control can increase converter efficiency, reducing size and weight. The application of intelligent control techniques to power converters has therefore recently become a focus of research.

Intelligent Control of Medium and High Power Converters summarizes the state of the art in the control of electric power converters. After an overview of the topic, the chapters cover optimization, bi-directional DC-DC converters, high-gain converters, GaN-based synchronous converters, control design, sliding mode control of three-phase inverters and three-level grid-connected inverters, neurological control, low-frequency switching operation, and a comparison and overview chapter. Comparing control methods for different converters helps users find the best solution for each type of converter and application.

The book is a valuable resource for researchers and manufacturers involved with converters and power grids, as well as for advanced students.

Mohamed Bendaoud is an assistant professor at the National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA) of Khouribga, Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco. He is an expert on control and simulation. He has served and continues to serve on the technical program committees and as reviewer for numerous international conferences and journals such as Journal of The Franklin Institute, Mechatronic Systems and Control.

Yassine Maleh is an associate professor of cybersecurity and IT governance at Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco. Previous positions include lecturer at the Mohammed VI International Academy of Civil Aviation (AIAC), and the International University of Rabat. He has served on Program Committees of more than 20 conferences and events and currently as the editor for several journals, including IEEE Access. He received Publons Top 1% reviewer award for the years 2018 and 2019.

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a full professor in Electrical Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway. Previously he was with Aalborg University and Aarhus University as a faculty member - he is an editor of the IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications, IET Electronics Letters, IETE Journal of Research, and the subject editor for IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and FACETS Journal (Canada).