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Industrial electronics (IE) covers a wide range of technologies and applications, being a key enabling technology for numerous industrial, domestic, and biomedical uses, among others. In this context, IE education has become a relevant and challenging topic for society and industry. This article covers its evolution and state-of-the-art methodologies and provides an overall view of its status around

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Although circuit theory is fundamental in the study and design of electric systems for both information and power applications, its history has seldom been told in the scientific literature. This article is an attempt to fill that gap, at least partially, by surveying its development up to circa 1924, i.e., mainly in the preclassical period, according to Herbert Carlin's definition [1]. Short biographical

Exposure to environmental noise has harmful effects on human health for both physiological and mental aspects, such as annoyance, sleep disorders, cardiovascular disease, or even permanent hearing impairment. This problem is further exacerbated in industrial environments, where millions of workers are exposed to occupational noise. Therefore, noise mapping is essential and the first step to solving

Electrification has been a key component of technological progress and economic development since the industrial revolution. It has improved living conditions, spurred innovation, and increased efficiency across all sectors of our economy and all aspects of our lives. During the coming decades, electrification is expected to reach further and deeper into the transportation, building, and industry sectors

One of the main challenges of human space exploration is the development of artificial ecosystems, which can be used as life support systems (LSSs) to enable long-duration human space missions. In an open LSS, no food generation or waste treatment is provided in space, and supplies from Earth are necessary. According to Figure 1, considering the approximate metabolic consumables and hygiene water as

In this article, we study edge artificial intelligence (AI) for industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. We discuss edge AI technology, which is considered the combination of AI with edge computing, and provide an overview of edge AI applications for IIoT networks, where the following three challenges are important to address: 1) personalization, 2) responsiveness, and 3) privacy preservation

Deep learning has greatly increased the capabilities of "intelligent" technical systems over the last years [1]. This includes the industrial automation sector [1]-[4], where new data-driven approaches to, for example, predictive maintenance [2], computer vision [3], or anomaly detection [4], have resulted in systems more easily and robustly automated than ever before.

The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Technical Committee (TC) Cluster of Energy was established at the 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 21-23 October 2018, in Washington, D.C. The worldwide challenges of energy shortage and global warming urgently require innovations in the energy field [1]. Applicationoriented multidisciplinary approaches are the key to addressing

The Industrial Revolution, which originally involved the change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to a market dominated by factory mechanization during the early 18th century, has profoundly shaped the world. It has progressed through four disruptive phases: Industry 1.0 through Industry 4.0. Industry 1.0 encompassed early automation, while Industry 2.0 began at the end of the 19th century, when

The field of industrial electronics has evolved profoundly during recent decades, hand in hand with smart systems, enabling the development of new functionalities. It is now common for robots to perform many previously burdensome tasks and operate in collaboration with humans. Miniaturized sensors, which are capable of extracting industrial process data with high levels of accuracy and robustness,

The industrial electronics (IE) discipline includes a wide variety of technical areas devoted to the application of electronics and electrical sciences for the enhancement of industrial and manufacturing processes. It inherently acts as a key enabling technology for a diverse number of applications and includes the latest developments in intelligent and computer control systems, robotics, factory communications

Google's Director of Research Peter Norvig said, "We don't have better algorithms than anyone else; we just have more data." This inspiring statement shows that having more data is directly related to better decision making and foresight about the future. With the development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, it is now much easier to gather data. Technological tools, such as social media websites

The battery is probably the most commonly used power supply for electronic devices. However, batteries are gradually becoming insufficient for powering many of the emerging devices that have started to dominate our lives, such as portable electronics, wearable smart devices, and wireless sensor networks. The general reason for this insufficiency is the high cost of replacing the batteries. Take the

In this article, we present an overview of sliding mode control (SMC) and its applications in power converters. Owing to the distinguished features such as fast dynamic response, robustness, order reduction, and implementation simplicity, SMC is widely studied in power converters. First, we briefly review SMC design. Then, we compare the classical current control and SMC methods for a grid-connected

Robots have been part of automation systems for a very long time, and in public perception, they are often synonymous with automation and industrial revolution perse. Fueled by Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT) concepts as well as by new software technologies, the field of robotics in industry is currently undergoing a revolution on its own. This article gives an overview of the evolution of

The impact of low-carbon technologies, like renewable energies and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, will be an additional strain in terms of voltage violation and current congestion on the low-voltage network, resulting in a reduced quality of supply and overheating assets. To avoid or defer the replacement of these traditional assets, the network of the future needs an intelligent solution

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The author is world-renowned and known for his 27 previous books elated to electrical machines, power electronics, and drives. This new offering offers a third edition of a handbook devoted to induction machines as a response to the significant progress observed in the last decade in technology and design for better precision and performance. Just like the second edition, the new third edition consists

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The voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is a critical block in the electronic and communication systems. It may be applied in frequency synthesis, clock signal generation, and a clock recovery circuit. In this article, the authors present the design and performance analysis of a 15-GHz, voltage-controlled ring oscillator using the 130-nm CMOS technology that operates in a 1.8-voltage power supply for

Autonomous vehicles, also known as self-driving cars, have the capability to perceive the environment, locate its position, and safely drive to the destination without any human intervention. This field has made amazing improvements because of the advanced technologies and progress of the artificial intelligence (AI) field. While the existing surveys have addressed many topics, e.g., vehicle sensors

Energy storage systems (ESSs) are the key to overcoming challenges to achieve the distributed smart energy paradigm and zero-emissions transportation systems. However, the strict requirements are difficult to meet, and in many cases, the best solution is to use a hybrid ESS (HESS), which involves two or more ESS technologies. In this article, a brief overview of the HESS, highlighting its advantages

Worldwide mining operations, which account for nearly 11% of global power consumption, are 28% less productive today than a decade ago. Meanwhile, mobile equipment was present in nearly 40% of mining fatalities and more than 30% of injuries in 2017. Building intelligence into existing mining excavators improves the safety, productivity, and energy efficiency of mining. This can provide perception,

This article contributes to state-of-the-art energy management agent (EMA) standards, an emerging re ference model, and its framework architectures. EMA can collect energy demand and autonomously manage energy consumption/generation in energy systems. The EMA reference model provides guidance on whether EMA is the right technology for the energy management framework (EMF) of heterogeneous energy systems

Energy storage systems (ESSs) facilitate utility grid operations on various levels, which include power generation, power transmission, and power distribution. The benefits of these systems produce an overall improvement of grid stability, security, and resilience; cost reductions resulting from the need for less expensive reserve equipment; enhanced power quality; and customer satisfaction. In line

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have limited driving ranges compared to conventional vehicles (CVs). Therefore, whether BEVs meet highway-trip requirements poses a critical concern for consumers. The real-world driving range is significantly different from laboratory test results due to a lack of real-world factors. Here, a hybrid physical-stochastic model is proposed to assess the real-world performance

Batteries are widely applied to the energy storage and power supply in portable electronics, transportation, power systems, communication networks, and so forth. They are particularly demanded in the emerging technologies of vehicle electrification and renewable energy integration for a green and sustainable society. To meet various voltage, power, and energy requirements in large-scale applications

Wind energy has received considerable attention during the past two decades, owing to its vital role in battling both the energy crisis and global climate change. Wind energy has grown to become the most significant nonconventional renewable energy source. Today, modern wind turbines (WTs) are controlled to offer several functionalities that improve their flexibility at a level similar to conventional

The energy paradigm is making the modern power grid more difficult to study, design, and control. Precisely speaking, the pace of the new energy paradigm involves the high penetration of power electronics systems in the power grid, which becomes a challenge from stability, vulnerability, and power-quality points of views. Therefore, various literature have focused on defining the modern power grid

Detecting inaccurate smart meters and targeting them for replacement can save significant resources. For this purpose, a novel deeplearning method was developed based on long short-term memory (LSTM) and a modified convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict electricity usage trajectories based on historical data. From the significant difference between the predicted trajectory and the observed one

The Energy Internet is proposed to enhance the collaborative utilization of distributed renewable energy resources; enable a flexible, customer-engaged energy transaction network; and achieve real-time balancing of supply and demand. This allows integrating advanced Internet of Things (IoT)-based architectures, information and communications technology (ICT)-based end-to-end digital energy chains;

Electrically propelled ships gained popularity by the early 20th century, with the rapid development of submarines and mediumcapacity container ships, mainly using dc motors [1]. Synchronous ac motors have since been employed for naval propulsion systems, but due to the restricted operation of the available power electronic devices at that time, these configurations were too expensive and unreliable

As an emerging research topic, wireless power transfer (WPT) with a single transmitter for multiple pickups (STMP) shows salient advantages of reducing the number of power inverters, increasing the power density, and so on, which has profound implications for various applications, such as wireless charging for electric vehicles (EVs) and smart homes. First, this article introduces the concept of STMP-WPT

High-performance wireless communication is crucial to the digital transformation of industrial systems, which is driven by Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet initiatives. Among the candidate industrial wireless technologies, 5G (cellular/mobile) holds significant potential. The operation of private (nonpublic) 5G networks in industrial environments is promising to fully unleash this potential. This

The fourth industrial revolution, also termed Industry 4.0 (I4.0), will digitalize manufacturing operations and decentralize them from the shop floor to the office and across entire enterprise networks [1]. The proposed system-level digitalization solutions for I4.0 include cyber-physical systems [2] and digital twins [3]. Standardized I4.0 technologies are urgently required to change industry and