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The aim of the special section is to provide a timely opportunity for researchers and engineers to share their latest findings on the development of advanced high frequency MV power electronic systems and control techniques for DER. 

The 8th International Summer School on Industrial Agents: Autonomous Control in Logistics, Production and Energy Applications, organized by the Helmut Schmidt University, Institute for Automation Technology in Hamburg, will take place from 11 to 15 July 2022. Don't wait and register your PhD students now!

ETFA 2022, the 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) focusing on the latest developments and new technologies in the field of industrial and factory automation, will take place 6-9 September 2022, at the University of Stuttgart. 

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In this article, a reaction torque observer with an automatic design method of a disturbance compensator is proposed to make robots and machines cooperate better with humans and adapt to external environments. Using an innovative element description method, it enables designs that make use of human knowledge and the computational power of computers, without the need of model design in advance.

In this paper a novel active and reactive power control strategy based on two cascade control loops using a combination of classical PR controller and Model Based Predictive Voltage Control is proposed. 

By Shafigh Nategh (Polestar, Sweden) and Yves Thioliere (Powersys, France) - 15 March 2022

Multi-objective multi-constraint optimization is required for the design of high-performance electrical appliances because of their need to satisfy a multitude of requirements. Optimization issues such as these perform searches within small and complex regions (design spaces that satisfy all constraints). Multipoint searches such as genetic algorithms (GA) are useful as search methods, but there exists the issue of calculation amounts increasing significantly in size. Pre-processing occurs in the form of narrowing down the design spaces as so to reduce these calculation amounts. However, depending on the way in which this narrowing down takes place, there exists the importance of factors such as experiences, making personal judgements, or risk of those narrowing-down processes not being carried out correctly.