Advanced Control for Electric Drives: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives

Adel Merabet

doi:10.3390/electronics9111762

Abstract

In the Special Issue “Advanced Control for Electric Drives”, the objective is to address a variety of issues related to advances in control techniques for electric drives, implementation challenges, and applications in emerging fields such as electric vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, maglev trains and motion applications. This issue includes 15 selected and peer-reviewed articles discussing a wide range of topics, where intelligent control, estimation and observation schemes were applied to electric drives for various applications. Different drives were studied such as induction motors, permanent magnet synchronous motors and brushless direct current motors.

Highlights

Electric drives have attracted the attention of researchers in emerging fields such as electric vehicles (EV), renewable energy systems and high precision motion applications [1,2,3]
Electric drives are composed of electrical machines, power electronic converters and control systems
In [11], a cascade second order sliding mode control (SMC) scheme was applied to a permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) for speed and current control loops

Summary

Introduction

Electric drives have attracted the attention of researchers in emerging fields such as electric vehicles (EV), renewable energy systems (wind, tidal, ocean, etc.) and high precision motion applications [1,2,3]. Electric drives are composed of electrical machines, power electronic converters and control systems. Their efficient operation, for position and speed regulation, is determined by the control system. Electric drives are a highly nonlinear, multivariable, time-varying system, depending on the type of the electrical machine, and require more complex methods of control. They constitute a theoretical and practical challenge in control, estimation and efficient operation in different applications [4,5,6,7]

The Special Issue

Future Perspectives