The National Institute for Research, Development, and Testing in Electrical Engineering—ICMET Craiova—will participate in the 18th edition of the event, October 15–17, 2026, with seven scientific papers. International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Electricity (ICATE 2026). The event is organized by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Craiova

ICMET Craiova presents the results of the institute’s research and development activities, which address current topics related to accelerating technological transformation and the need for resource-efficient solutions. The contributions included are:

–      „Analysis of the Electric Field during Track and Erosion Testing of Polymer Insulators” având ca autori  dr. ing. Viorica Voicu, drd. ing. Ionuț Toma, ing. Alin Neagoe, ing. Ionel Dumbravă, drd. ing. Denisa Burada;
–        „Pareto-Nash Multiobjective PID-Based LFC for Interconnected Two-Area Power Systems with Chaos Avoidance Analysis”, având ca autori dr. ing. Marcel Nicola și dr. ing. Claudiu Nicola;
–       „An IoT-Based Data Fusion and Fault Observer Framework for Monitoring Multi-Source Renewable Energy Microgrids”, având ca autori ing. Miruna Popa, ing. Adrian Vintilă, ing. Mihai Neagoe, dr. ing. Claudiu Nicola și dr. ing. Marcel Nicola;
–        „Considerations for ensuringelectrical safety in the area of energy capacities located in residential areas” având ca autori dr. ing. Silvia-Maria Digă, ing. Ion Pătru, dr. ing. Nicolae Digă, dr. ing. Cristian Bratu, dr. ing. Paul-Mihai Mircea, dr. ing. Livia-Andreea Dina;
–       „Intelligent System for Power Transformer Fault Detection Based on Mansour Pentagon and AdaBoostM2 Ensemble Classifier”, având ca autori Maria-Cristina NIȚU,  Ancuța-Mihaela ACIU, Marcel Nicola și Claudiu Nicola;
–        „Effect of Composite Adsorbent Composition on the Regeneration of Used Transformer Oil”, având ca autori Maria-Cristina NIȚU,  Ancuța-Mihaela ACIU;
–       „Evaluation of the Performance of Polymeric Insulators under Salt Fog Testing According to IEC 62217:2025”,  având ca autori Ionuț TOMA, Maria-Cristina NIȚU și Aurelia Iuliana SCORNEA.

Additional information regarding the event schedule and abstracts of the papers can be found at
https://elth.ucv.ro/icate/icate26/