Principle Organizer:

Name: Mohammad Sharifzadeh

Email: mohammad.sharifzadeh@ieee.org

Affiliations: Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Montreal, Canada

Co-Organizer 1:

Name: Kamal Al-Haddad

Email: kamal.al-haddad@etsmtl.ca

Affiliations: Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Montreal, Canada

Co-Organizer 2:

Name: Meysam Gheisarnejad

Email: m.gheisar@ece.au.dk

Affiliations: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark

Co-Organizer 3:

Name: Mohammad-Hassan Khooban

Email: mhkhoban@gmail.com

Affiliations: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark

Theme:

Multilevel converters including DC/AC and AC/DC are nowadays used in various industrial, commercial, and domestic applications such as grid-connected systems, rectifiers, active power filter, UPS, electrical drives, etc. This converter makes use of abundant number of power semiconductor devices that should be properly controlled to have maximum efficiency. The primary challenge is to find appropriate topology, design the suitable PWM switching techniques, and apply the appropriate controller. Moreover, since the multilevel converters have nonlinear character, closed-loop based system using advanced controllers such as sliding mode, model predictive, adaptive, intelligent methods to meet the targeted application. Therefore, this special session concentrates on the latest development of multilevel converters topologies, control and device switching techniques but not limited to.