Dear Colleagues,

Modern technology demands that an assessment of magnitude of part of physical phenomena should be made with ever-increasing precision and accuracy. Measurement and process control are fundamental to ultimately generating the best possible results when it comes to the use of resources, machinery, performance, profitability, environmental protection, and safety, among others. Therefore, instrumentation entails using the group of equipment and devices that serve engineers or technicians to accurately measure, record, and convert variables from process and then transmit, evaluate, and control them for different types of purposes.

As the power converter topologies involve satisfying a new paradigm of power grid operation where renewable sources are expected to become the majority of energy production, several improvements at instrumentation level are emerging with the aim of allowing the implementation of sophisticated functionalities in a distributed energy generation infrastructure. On the other hand, several industrial applications can be made by taking advantage of instrumentation through adopting (updating) modern power electronics design in which the instrumentation has a key role.

Improvements in instrumentation can be submitted but not limited to in the following areas:

1. Instrumentation supporting new control techniques, which includes, for example, data acquisition and signal processing at analog/digital side;
2. Instrumentation to support diagnosis services on power electronics devices;
3. Instrumentation to support reconfiguration of power converter units in order to minimize downtime in case of failure and maximize power generation;
4. Sensing based on digital signal processing techniques;
5. Alternative sensing techniques that can improve switching trajectory in most recent power devices, such as silicon carbide (SiC) Mosfet and gallium nitride (GaN) FET.

Prof. Dr. Eduardo M. G. Rodrigues
Prof. Dr. Edris Pouresmaeil
Dr. Radu Godina
Guest Editors

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