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The rising demand for electricity and its essential nature in today's world calls for intelligent home energy management (HEM) systems that can reduce energy usage. This involves scheduling of loads from peak hours of the day when energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Alwyn Mathew , Abhijit Roy , Jimson Mathew

Modern power grids face unprecedented complexity from Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), Electric Vehicles (EVs), and extreme weather, while also being increasingly exposed to cyberattacks that can trigger grid violations. This paper…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yan Zhang , Ahmad Mohammad Saber , Amr Youssef , Deepa Kundur

The development of renewable energy generation empowers microgrids to generate electricity to supply itself and to trade the surplus on energy markets. To minimize the overall cost, a microgrid must determine how to schedule its energy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Guanyu Gao , Yonggang Wen , Xiaohu Wu , Ran Wang

Finding optimal bidding strategies for generation units in electricity markets would result in higher profit. However, it is a challenging problem due to the system uncertainty which is due to the unknown other generation units' strategies.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Pegah Rokhforoz , Olga Fink

It is estimated that about 40%-50% of total electricity consumption in commercial buildings can be attributed to Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. Minimizing the energy cost while considering the thermal comfort of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Vinay Hanumaiah , Sahika Genc

This paper proposes a multiagent based bi-level operation framework for the low-carbon demand management in distribution networks considering the carbon emission allowance on the demand side. In the upper level, the aggregate load agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Jichen Zhang , Linwei Sang , Yinliang Xu , Hongbin Sun

System operators are faced with increasingly volatile operating conditions. In order to manage system reliability in a cost-effective manner, control room operators are turning to computerised decision support tools based on AI and machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Medha Subramanian , Jan Viebahn , Simon H. Tindemans , Benjamin Donnot , Antoine Marot

This paper proposes a data-driven distributed voltage control approach based on the spectrum clustering and the enhanced multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) algorithm. Via the unsupervised clustering, the whole distribution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Di Cao , Junbo Zhao , Weihao Hu , Fei Ding , Qi Huang , Zhe Chen

Increasing adoption of solar photovoltaic (PV) presents new challenges to modern power grid due to its variable and intermittent nature. Fluctuating outputs from PV generation can cause the grid violating voltage operation limits. PV smart…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Changfu Li , Chenrui Jin , Ratnesh Sharma

Uncertainties in renewable generation and demand dynamics challenge day-ahead scheduling. To enhance renewable penetration and maintain intra-day balance, we develop a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for self-interested…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Junhao Ren , Honglin Gao , Lan Zhao , Qiyu Kang , Gaoxi Xiao , Yajuan Sun

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods have achieved significant success in managing grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs). However, RL does not carry intrinsic guarantees of constraint satisfaction, which may lead to severe safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Xiang Huo , Boming Liu , Jin Dong , Jianming Lian , Mingxi Liu

Systems for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) of buildings are traditionally controlled by a rule-based approach. In order to reduce the energy consumption and the environmental impact of HVAC systems more advanced control…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Daniel Bayer , Marco Pruckner

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach has shown promisein solving complex decision and control problems in power engineering domain.In this paper, we present an in-depth analysis of DRL-based voltage control fromaspects…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Xiren Zhou , Siqi Wang , Ruisheng Diao , Desong Bian , Jiahui Duan , Di Shi

In this paper, we develop a grid-interactive multi-zone building controller based on a deep reinforcement learning (RL) approach. The controller is designed to facilitate building operation during normal conditions and demand response…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Xiangyu Zhang , Rohit Chintala , Andrey Bernstein , Peter Graf , Xin Jin

This paper investigates how deep multi-agent reinforcement learning can enable the scalable and privacy-preserving coordination of residential energy flexibility. The coordination of distributed resources such as electric vehicles and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Flora Charbonnier , Bei Peng , Thomas Morstyn , Malcolm McCulloch

This paper presents a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based energy market for a prosumer dominated microgrid. The proposed market model facilitates a real-time and demanddependent dynamic pricing environment, which reduces grid costs and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Arman Ghasemi , Amin Shojaeighadikolaei , Kailani Jones , Morteza Hashemi , Alexandru G. Bardas , Reza Ahmadi

Smart grids are designed to efficiently handle variable power demands, especially for large loads, by real-time monitoring, distributed generation and distribution of electricity. However, the grid's distributed nature and the internet…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Anjana B. , Suman Maiti , Sunandan Adhikary , Soumyajit Dey , Ashish R. Hota

The necessary integration of renewable energy sources, combined with the expanding scale of power networks, presents significant challenges in controlling modern power grids. Traditional control systems, which are human and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Carlo Fabrizio , Gianvito Losapio , Marco Mussi , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

We propose a mechanism for distributed resource management and interference mitigation in wireless networks using multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (RL). We equip each transmitter in the network with a deep RL agent that receives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Navid Naderializadeh , Jaroslaw Sydir , Meryem Simsek , Hosein Nikopour

The rapidly changing architecture and functionality of electrical networks and the increasing penetration of renewable and distributed energy resources have resulted in various technological and managerial challenges. These have rendered…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sarah Keren , Chaimaa Essayeh , Stefano V. Albrecht , Thomas Morstyn