The electrification of critical infrastructure demands power electronics systems with unprecedented resilience, reliability, and self-healing capabilities. Drawing inspiration from biological systems such as the human body’s self-repair mechanisms and collective intelligence in social organisms, this article outlines a vision and path for bioinspired power electronics. Based on state-of-the-art fault-tolerant topologies, prognostic frameworks, and distributed control strategies, this vision links to AI-driven digital twins, adaptive communication architectures, and system-level integration. By mimicking biological resilience, these technologies pave the way for self-aware, sustainable energy systems capable of decades-long operation under dynamic stresses.
This article presents an integrated framework synthesizing bio-inspired techniques into a cohesive vision for power electronics, highlighting opportunities and critical research gaps. The inspirations form a three-layer biological hierarchy: (1) a structural layer built on modularity, redundancy, and fault tolerance for anatomical resilience; (2) a sensory and reflex layer combining digital twin monitoring, metabolic thermal control, and distributed sensor reflexes emulating the peripheral nervous system; and (3) an upper intelligence layer where AI performs mission optimization and system-wide coordination, mirroring cognitive functions.
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