{"title":"A Nonisolated Bidirectional Converter With Enhanced Voltage Gain and Common Ground for Energy Storage Systems","authors":"Thamatapu Eswara Rao;Guruvulu Naidu Ponnada;Rebba Sasidhar;Bolisetti Kavya Santhoshi;Srinivasarao Boddepalli;Madhu Bindu Priya;Srinivasa Rao Sura;Kutikuppala Durga Syam Prasad;Kallelapu Rambabu","doi":"10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3675382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3675382","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a novel nonisolated bidirectional converter with the features of a quadratic buck–boost voltage gain, continuous input, and continuous output currents; which can be employed in energy storage applications, via., batteries or super-capacitors. The proposed converter combines the advantages of high-voltage gain, wide voltage range, low-voltage stress across power switches, less current ripples, and common ground between the input and output sides. The proposed bidirectional converter comprises 10 components: four bidirectional switches, three inductors, and three capacitors. Initially, this brief discusses the converter operation in discharging and charging modes; then, steady-state and dynamic modeling analyses are presented. Furthermore, the proposed converter is compared with recent bidirectional converters considering various performance indices. Additionally, experimentations are conducted on a 300 W, 50 kHz laboratory prototype of the proposed converter. The experimental results confirmed the viability of the proposed converter for energy storage applications with a peak efficiency of 97.9% in discharging and 97.16% in charging operation.","PeriodicalId":100620,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics","volume":"7 3","pages":"1309-1322"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148517685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics Publication Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3700874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3700874","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100620,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics","volume":"7 3","pages":"C2-C2"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11602599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148512169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Novel Hybrid Global Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm Based on Neural Network Surrogate Model","authors":"Yu Shan Cheng;Yi Hua Liu;Zong Zhen Yang;Yu Chih Huang;He Hsiang Hsu","doi":"10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3685077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3685077","url":null,"abstract":"A neural network (NN)-based hybrid maximum power point tracking algorithm is presented for photovoltaic generation systems, effective under both uniform insolation conditions (UIC) and partial shaded conditions (PSC). In PSC, a two-stage process is applied and the trained NN estimates the global maximum power point voltage using temperature, current, and irradiance, which initializes a variable step-size perturb & observe method for accurate tracking. Compared to Lambert W methods, the NN reduces computational cost by approximately 98% with an averaged error below 0.25%, making it suitable for low-cost controllers. For UIC, the same NN provides the starting point. The proposed method requires only voltage, current, and temperature sensors, adapts to different module configurations without retraining, and avoids irradiance sensors. Simulations on a 5S1P system with 252 shading patterns demonstrate superior accuracy and speed over eight advanced NN-based methods, achieving a 0.12 W average power loss and 1.48 s tracking time. Experimental results on a 1 kW converter confirm >99.2% tracking efficiency, validating its practicality and robustness.","PeriodicalId":100620,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics","volume":"7 3","pages":"1009-1022"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148512395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guangdi Li;Zicheng Wang;Bowen Zhou;Dongsheng Yang;Yan-fei Liu
{"title":"An Intermediate Electrolytic Capacitor-Less Single-Stage Wireless Power Transfer Converter With Direct Power Conversion and Power Factor Correction","authors":"Guangdi Li;Zicheng Wang;Bowen Zhou;Dongsheng Yang;Yan-fei Liu","doi":"10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3691344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3691344","url":null,"abstract":"An intermediate electrolytic capacitor-less single-stage wireless power transfer (WPT) converter with direct power conversion and power factor correction (PFC) is analyzed and implemented in this article. The proposed single-stage WPT converter eliminates the intermediate electrolytic capacitors that are typically required in traditional multistage power conversion systems. The proposed direct power conversion topology integrates both the PFC stage and WPT stage into a single stage, resulting in a simple, compact, and efficient design with a reduced number of components. Furthermore, eliminating the intermediate electrolytic capacitors improves long-term reliability and reduces maintenance requirements. What's more, the single-stage architecture enhances overall efficiency by minimizing the number of components and soft switching operations. Finally, an experimental prototype is built and tested to validate the proposed topology, and the experimental results confirm its feasibility and performance. The system demonstrates efficient power conversion, stable WPT, and soft switching operation. The advantages of reduced size, intermediate electrolytic capacitor-less, and soft-switching operation make the proposed converter a promising solution for the WPT applications.","PeriodicalId":100620,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics","volume":"7 3","pages":"1334-1343"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148514193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low-Complexity Triangular In-Phase and Quadrature Signal Generator-Based Phase-Locked Loop","authors":"Vihan Shahu;Vinod John;Kiran Kumari","doi":"10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3668919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3668919","url":null,"abstract":"The second-order generalized integrator (SOGI)-based phase-locked loop (PLL) is widely employed for phase and frequency synchronization. However, SOGI-based in-phase and quadrature generation (IQG) along with sinusoidal signal synthesis in the feedback path, imposes a significant computational burden. This limits its suitability for implementation in resource-constrained or timing-constrained processors. This article introduces a low-complexity triangular IQG, termed the triangular SOGI (tSOGI), which significantly reduces real-time computational requirements by generating triangular rather than sinusoidal signals. The proposed tSOGI algorithm is analyzed using a vector-field approach along with Lyapunov stability theory, and its parameters are tuned by a state-trajectory observation-based method to achieve the desired performance. A novel PLL structure, termed the triangular PLL (tPLL), is then developed by leveraging the tSOGI to avoid explicit sine–cosine signal synthesis in both the prefilter and feedback paths, resulting in reduced implementation complexity. The algorithm is realized in discrete time on an FPGA platform and is experimentally evaluated under diverse grid-disturbance scenarios. Results demonstrate that the proposed tPLL achieves performance comparable to the conventional SOGI-PLL while reducing computational complexity—a 56% reduction in computational resource usage and a 39.6% reduction in execution time.","PeriodicalId":100620,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics","volume":"7 3","pages":"1064-1076"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148514406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Digital Slope Modulation Technique for a PFM-Based Series Resonant LED Driver","authors":"Arnab Kumar Pal;Amit Kumar Singha","doi":"10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3689772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3689772","url":null,"abstract":"The envelope slope-controlled hysteretic pulse frequency modulation (HPFM) scheme can be an efficient and low-cost alternative over the traditional PI-controller based single-loop/multiloop resonant LED drivers. With the help of two slopes, the current mode HPFM scheme can regulate a wide range of output loads. However, the flickering issues and large output ripples under light load conditions remain major limitations of this scheme. To address these issues, this article proposes a load-dependent slope reference to precisely control the rising and falling slopes of the main envelope. The impact of the envelope reference slope on frequency deviations is thoroughly analyzed and analytical expressions for different control slopes are derived. Furthermore, a C-L filter is proposed to alleviate the impact of LED dynamic resistance variation due to thermal effects. The proposed scheme is implemented using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital platform and the experimental results are obtained using a 170 W rated in-house series resonant converter (SRC)-based LED driver prototype. Results show that the proposed scheme is capable of reducing the LED current ripple and output flicker significantly with improved line regulation and load transient performances compared to the reported schemes.","PeriodicalId":100620,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics","volume":"7 3","pages":"1219-1231"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148515077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive Slip Ratio Limiter-Based Hierarchical Decentralized Yaw-Moment Control for IWM-EVs","authors":"Tona Sato;Binh-Minh Nguyen;Hiroshi Fujimoto","doi":"10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3688000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3688000","url":null,"abstract":"Although yaw moment control (YMC) has been shown to be an essential lateral stability control strategy, its practical application is still restricted due to the following reasons. First, the centralized configuration of classical YMC limits its capability to accurately generate driving forces. Second, real-time estimation of maximum tire force is a nontrivial question. To overcome such issues, this article proposes a hierarchical decentralized YMC for in-wheel-motor electric vehicles. The upper layer controls the yaw-rate and distributes the driving force references to the lower layer, where each wheel is provided with a driving force control (DFC). The DFC is implemented using a novel adaptive slip ratio limiter, which determines the driving force saturation at each local wheel in accordance with the changes of steering angle and road conditions. To this end, a switching recursive least squares algorithm is proposed to quickly and accurately identify driving stiffness. Experimental results demonstrate that even in critical driving scenarios—such as cornering while accelerating or decelerating on nonuniform surfaces with abrupt changes in road friction—the proposed system effectively enhances lateral stability. Compared with the conventional DFC-based YMC, the yaw rate tracking error was considerably reduced by 22% thanks to the proposed system.","PeriodicalId":100620,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics","volume":"7 3","pages":"1260-1273"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148517688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dwell-Time-Domain Asymmetric Space Vector Modulation With Multirate Feedforward Current Control for PMSM at Low Carrier-to-Target Frequency Ratio","authors":"Tong Lu;Osamu Shimizu;Hiroshi Fujimoto","doi":"10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3678397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3678397","url":null,"abstract":"A novel dwell-time-domain asymmetric space vector modulation (A-SVM) with multirate feedforward current control (MFCC) is proposed for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives to improve steady-state harmonic current tracking accuracy under low carrier-to-target frequency ratios (CTFRs). Harmonic current injection is an effective method for active vibration suppression in PMSMs; however, its injection accuracy degrades in high power density machines because higher harmonic frequencies reduce CTFR. To address this issue, the proposed method comprises two main stages. In the MFCC stage, the harmonic current reference is updated at intervals of half the carrier period to capture intracarrier harmonic variations, thereby generating two feedforward control inputs per carrier period. In the A-SVM stage, two reference dwell-time vectors with different magnitudes and phase angles are synthesized separately for the first and second halves of each carrier period. This increases the degrees of freedom in voltage reference vector synthesis and enables explicit control of the current within the carrier period. Furthermore, to improve voltage reference vector synthesis precision, two or more active vectors can be applied in a single carrier period. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method improves harmonic injection accuracy by more than 30% compared with conventional methods under low CTFRs, without increasing the current and rotor position sampling frequencies, carrier frequency.","PeriodicalId":100620,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics","volume":"7 3","pages":"951-962"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148512167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jose Chico;Sergi Zapater Villar;Ramon Guzman;Luis Garcia de Vicuña;Ángel Borrell;Miguel Castilla
{"title":"A Sliding Mode-Control for a Three-Phase SAPF Using a Nonlinear Transformation","authors":"Jose Chico;Sergi Zapater Villar;Ramon Guzman;Luis Garcia de Vicuña;Ángel Borrell;Miguel Castilla","doi":"10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3694551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3694551","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces a novel switching strategy for a three-phase two-level shunt active power filter (SAPF) based on sliding-mode control (SMC). Unlike traditional SMC implemented in the natural reference frame, which suffers from cross-coupling among phase-leg controllers due to the neutral point voltage and results in sliding losses, the proposed method achieves full axis-decoupling. To overcome this limitation, a nonlinear transformation maps the voltages and currents into a new 2-D reference frame. Within this transformed frame, a nonlinear model is developed, and two sliding-mode surfaces are implemented using hysteresis band comparators. The resulting switching strategy removes sliding losses, allows third-harmonic injection in the control signals, and extends the effective control range by approximately 15% without saturating the controller. Experimental results validate the theoretical framework and show that the proposed method reduces the grid-current total harmonic distortion (THD) from 2.839% with conventional SMC to 1.138%. The method also preserves stable DC-link regulation and sinusoidal grid currents under load-step, voltage-sag, and distorted-grid-voltage conditions.","PeriodicalId":100620,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics","volume":"7 3","pages":"1184-1195"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148513978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental Assessment of Ultralightweight DC–DC Converters for Future eVTOL Aircraft With Hybrid Power Supply","authors":"Luc Imperiali;Johann W. Kolar;Jonas Huber","doi":"10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3694530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTIE.2026.3694530","url":null,"abstract":"This letter presents a comparative life cycle assessment of two ultralightweight, bidirectional, nonisolated buck–boost DC–DC converters for hybrid (fuel cell and battery) powertrains of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft: A two-level (2 L) SiC design and a three-level (3 L) GaN flying-capacitor design. Embodied and use-phase carbon footprints are evaluated for representative urban and regional mission profiles. Whereas the specific 3 L design shows nearly twice the gravimetric power density and slightly lower embodied emissions, its lower conversion efficiency consistently results in higher overall life cycle carbon footprints compared to the selected 2 L design. The results demonstrate that despite aggressive weight reduction, efficiency remains the dominant factor governing the environmental performance of airborne DC–DC converters.","PeriodicalId":100620,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics","volume":"7 3","pages":"1390-1394"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148514296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}