When writing papers for engineering conferences and journals, it is important to highlight how one's work is novel/new.

I often find myself repeating the word "novel" is sentences such as:

> The novel control algorithm presented here....

but I feel this is quite tedious if repeated often. I sometimes use phrases such as 
> This work extends the state-of-the-art by...

but don't particularily like the sound of that either. Are there any other suggestions for phrasing ways in which my work is "new"?