Advanced Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronic Converters
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“There is nothing so practical as a good theory”—Kurt Lewin claimed,1 taking part in the ongoing debate between practitioners and scientists about their relationship and the desirability of applied research as opposed to basic research. Any engineer working in the field of power electronics and drives has to support this statement strongly, having in mind control theory, artificial and computational intelligence, or signal processing.
On the other hand, there is nothing more stimulating for the development of a theory as a strong need for practical applications and the influence of smart, practical solutions that may be generalized and become a part of the general approach. Power electronics and variable frequency drives are continuously developing multidisciplinary fields which require applications of the recently developed techniques of modern control theory and provide an important impulse for the development of new predictive, nonlinear and robust control methods.
That is why the book concerning recent solutions in control of power electronics and drives appears in the series “Studies in Systems, Decisions and Control.” The presented contributed volume is written by key specialists working in multidisciplinary fields in electrical engineering, linking control theory, power electronics, artificial neural networks, embedded controllers, and signal processing.
The authors of each chapter report the state of the art of the various topics addressed and present results of their own research, laboratory experiments, and successful applications.
