Novosibirsk State Technical University (NETI) is working on the creation of an intelligent assistant based on artificial intelligence to control electrical networks.
"The need for this development has matured due to the increasing proliferation of distributed small-scale generation. Theoretically, each of us can build our own small power plant. Technically, this is possible, but technologically it is fraught with certain difficulties: without appropriate knowledge, it is difficult to operate a power plant. There are only six power plants and many electricity consumers in the whole of Novosibirsk and the Novosibirsk region. If there are not six generations, but, say, sixty or six hundred, then someone needs to manage them. Therefore, the idea arose to resort to the use of artificial intelligence," said Denis Armeev, Associate Professor of the Department of Automated Electric Power Systems at NSTU-NETI, Candidate of Technical Sciences.
Artificial intelligence promtami (promt is a source text marked up in a certain way) is provided with information about the electrical network and the equipment of the power plant. When the model of the electrical network is started, the AI periodically reports what is happening in the network, what mode is there. The AI should analyze the promt before making recommendations for managing the power grid.
"We are not overloading artificial intelligence with information, a large array of digital data, we are trying to correctly describe the logic of decision-making. Every artificial intelligence has a so-called hallucination: nine times it answers correctly, and the tenth time it "lies." We are looking for ways to get a more reliable result: we run not one AI, but several. It turns out to be an AI expert community. Let's say the first one was asked: "Do what?" And the second one: "If you do this, will it lead to the desired result?" That is, the second evaluates the work of the first and it protects against errors. The AI community in management systems has never been done before, this is our innovation. When the dispatcher's work is required, the AI quite successfully replaces it, gives adequate commands that are executed on the model of the electrical network," adds Denis Armeev.
As for the prospects, the introduction of an intelligent agent in power systems is possible in 1-2 years.