Power Electronics Technology for Industrial 5.0

Dear Colleagues,

Societies’ concerns about environmental protection have been increasing in recent decades, mainly due to climate change and pollution.

Events including globalization and the pandemic crises, among others, have pressured the industry to be more competitive and to ensure its survival.

Nevertheless, we are currently assisting in a new digital transition, where Industry 4.0, with all its focus on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, is gradually changing into a new Industry 5.0, which incorporates human intelligence in all of these issues, promoting, therefore, more collaboration between humans and systems.

In Industry 5.0, particularly within an electronic context, it is expected that systems can collaborate with humans in order to increase their wealth, which includes the development of sustainable practices, to promote sustainability within the industry in general.

Additionally, the use of AI’s approaches, on behalf of a collaboration context, can be used to pursue this goal, whether during the production phase or during the use of the final products to achieve sustainability.

Power electronics technology, for instance, has achieved considerable progress after several decades of the evolution of power converters, electrical machines, motor drives, and advanced control techniques, playing, therefore, a significant role to promote sustainability in society.

This Special Issue aims to gather the latest developments, concerning these challenges. Thus, within the framework described above, this Special Issue invites authors to contribute with original research to the following fields:

• Soft computing approaches to produce electronic products for renewable energy systems
• Collaborative ecosystems in the electronics industry to design green products
• Neural network’s-based on power electronic products are designed for the energy efficiency sector
• AI’s based approaches to improve industry’s process manufactory
• Integration of energy storage systems with renewable energy generation in smart grids
• Novel topologies of power electronic converters adopted for sustainable power systems

Dr. Joaquim Monteiro
Dr. Ricardo Simões Santos
Guest Editors

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• Soft computing-based approaches to process manufactory design
• Green electronic product design
• Collaborative networks
• Machine learning-based approaches to electronic product development
• Sustainable development practices in the electronic industry
• Energy storage systems
• Power electronic converters
• Advanced control techniques