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Engineering: Advances in Artificial Intelligence and IoT Based Smart Converters for Intelligent Energy Systems
This Topical Collection focuses on the recent advancements in smart inverters with improved functionality using artificial intelligence technologies. Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:
1. Cyber-secured Power Electronics Converters
2. Sensors incorporated converters to improve system observability and controllability, thereby achieving robust performance
3. Protection equipment integrated converters for fast detection and interruption of faults
4. Advances in Smart Inverters – Improvement in fast system stabilization using techniques, such as active dam**, impedance resha**, feedforward control, passivity-based control, and other robust control techniques.
5. AI-based load forecasting for improved demand-side management
6. Novel solutions to handle the growing complexity of IoT based power systems
7. Role of power electronics in the future intelligent system
8. Enhancement of PV inverters to offer additional system stability to grid operation
9. Artificial neural networks based smart inverters applied to energy systems
10. Big data supported smart energy systems
Editors
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Irfan Khan
Irfan Khan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Marine Engineering Technology with a joint appointment with the Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M College Station. He is director of the Clean And Resilient Energy Systems (CARES) Lab. He has done pioneering work in distributed grids and shipboard power systems monitoring. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University USA; current research interests include smart energy networks, energy storage systems, renewable energy res.
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Hasmat Malik
Hasmat Malik (Senior Member IEEE) received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at BEARS (Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS), a research center of University of California, TX, USA), and NUS Singapore, and served as Assistant Professor (regular) for 5+ years at the Division of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) Delhi, India. Research interests include, e.g., AI, ML, and big-data analytics for renewable energy.
