IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

In this article, an overview of capacitive and eddy current sensors (ECSs) for measuring very small displacements in the subnanometer range is presented in view of the latest advancements in the field. The need for an accurate displacement/position measurement in such extremely small scales as nanometers and picometers has increased significantly during the last few years. Application examples can... View full abstract»

Model-based predictive control (MPC) for power converters and drives is a control technique that has gained attention in the research community. The main reason for this is that although MPC presents high computational burden, it can easily handle multivariable case and system constraints and nonlinearities in a very intuitive way. Taking advantage of that, MPC has been successfully used for diffe... View full abstract»

Direct model predictive control (MPC) strategies that achieve long prediction horizons with a modest computational complexity are reviewed in this article, focusing on power electronics applications. In many MPC problems, a long prediction horizon is required to ensure an adequate closed-loop performance in steady state and to avoid stability issues. However, the computational effort of solving th... View full abstract»

Model predictive control (MPC) methods for applications in power converters have received considerable attention in recent years. The idea behind MPC is to use a mathematical model of the system to predict its future behavior within a predefined time. An optimization problem that includes the control objectives, the predicted variables, and possible constraints of the system is solved, yielding th... View full abstract»

This article describes the history of Internet and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Atlantic. View full abstract»