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Power Systems Intelligence In research and development projects, the Power Systems Intelligence Group is working on solutions for decentralised, decarbonised and cyber-resilient energy supply, specialising in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Vision: The AI-empowered Smart Grid

The integration of distributed and supply-dependent primary energies represents a major challenge for the transformation of energy systems. Modern artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies make a significant contribution to meeting this challenge in many areas: in the semi-automatic management of electricity grids, in the insight-driven marketing of decentralised energy systems, in the forecasting of load and generation time series, to name but a few. The close linking of energy systems and ICT infrastructure in smart grids also requires an adaptive and autonomous "immune system" in order to deal with attacks against the infrastructure and failures of subsystems.

The Power Systems Intelligence Group therefore researches and develops solutions at the interface between the power grid, the energy market, artificial intelligence and a cyber-resilient system understanding. Our vision: the AI-empowered Smart Grid.


Machine Learning

Every autonomous, pro-active system needs a model of its environment and a prediction of future system states. This can be the active power input of a wind or photovoltaic park, the demand in energetic neighbourhoods, the available flexibility for the provision of system services or the price development of the energy market. The digitalization of the energy supply opens up data volumes that represent a suitable basis for machine learning. In order to draw meaningful conclusions from these large amounts of data and to train systems for autonomous operation, approaches from deep learning have established themselves as a worthwhile research subject with impressive results. Structures such as deep recurrent networks are suitable for predicting time series or market behaviour. They also allow any systems to be simulated and can independently model complex issues using reinforcement learning. This technique, known as a surrogate model, makes it possible to simulate connections in the power grid, derive and correct sensor values or determine operating parameters for network management such as reactive power compensation factors almost in real time.

Our research in the field of machine learning therefore aims to contribute domain knowledge about the power grid and the energy market in the form of architectures for artificial neural networks to artificial intelligence and to make use of the methods of deep learning to enable prototypes for cyber-resilient network management and economic, intelligent action in energy markets. We work closely with the Computational Intelligence Department at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and play a key role in shaping the Deep Learning Competence Cluster.

Distributed and learning systems

Increasing decentralisation of energy supply is leading to increasing decentralisation of control and monitoring intelligence. We take the spatial and topological distribution of system components into account by developing distributed, (partially) autonomous agent systems. We work closely with the Department of Energy Informatics at Leibniz Universität Hannover and the OFFIS group Simulation and Agents in Multiple Domains. Our focus is on upgrading individual agents, who learn operating and trading strategies independently and bring the flexibility of the components they represent optimally into the overall system. The issues of network stability and the provision of regional system services also play a key role in this context. Learning agents turn decentralised energy systems into valuable, pro-active assets for distribution network operation. This contributes to a reliable and efficient energy supply and contributes to mastering the increasing complexity of the overall system. Furthermore, the detection of misconduct and other anomalies in power and communication networks is another part of our work.

Our research in the field of distributed and learning systems therefore aims at learning network and system characteristics and AI-supported analysis of possible attack scenarios. The unique research field of Adversarial Resilience Learning enables us to make the power grid a self-adapting, secure and cyber-resilient overall system, even in the case of strong digitalization. This goal connects us with the Automation, Communication and Control group, which researches the stable and reliable operation of dynamic systems.

Groups

  • Co-Simulation of Multi-Modal Energy Systems
  • Distributed Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Integration and Processing
  • Energy-efficient Smart Cities
  • Power Systems Intelligence
  • Resilient Monitoring and Control
  • Standardized Systems Engineering and Assessment
  • Smart Grid Testing

Group Manager

Dr.-Ing. Eric Veith
Dr.-Ing.
Eric Veith

Persons

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Stephan Balduin

E-Mail: stephan.balduin(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-298, Room: E61

G

Johannes Gerster

E-Mail: Johannes.Gerster(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-432, Room: E88

H

Lasse Hammer

E-Mail: lasse.hammer(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-139, Room: E121

P

Erika Puiutta

E-Mail: erika.puiutta(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-504, Room: E68

V

Dr.-Ing. Eric Veith

E-Mail: eric.veith(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-739, Room: E68

W

Nils Wenninghoff

E-Mail: nils.wenninghoff(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-124, Room: E61

Projects

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dashPORT

Port Energy Management Dashboard: Digital control room for analysis and control of energy flows in ports

Duration: 2019 - 2022

E

enera

Dezentrale Energieversorgung im Praxistest (sorry - only available in German)

Duration: 2017 - 2021

F

FRESH

Flexibilitätsmanagement und Regelenergiebereitstellung von Schwerlastfahrzeugen im Hafen (sorry - only available in German)

Duration: 2019 - 2021

P

Pyrate

Polymorphic agents as cross-sectional software technology for the analysis of the operational safety of cyber-physical systems

Duration: 2019 - 2022

T

TRANSENSE

Transfer learning for AI business model innovations in digital, transparent distribution grids

Duration: 2020 - 2023

Publications

2020

Analyzing Power Grid, ICT, and Market Without Domain Knowledge Using Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Veith, Eric MSP and Balduin, Stephan and Wenninghoff, Nils and Tröschel, Martin and Fischer, Lars and Nie"sse, Astrid and Wolgast, Thomas and Sethmann, Richard and Fraune, Bastian and Woltjen, Torben; CYBER 2020, The Fifth International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems; October / 2020

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Evaluating Different Machine Learning Techniques as Surrogate for Low Voltage Grids

Stephan Balduin and Tom Westermann and Erika Puiutta; 2020

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Explainable Reinforcement Learning: A Survey

Puiutta, Erika and Veith, Eric M. S. P.; Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction; March / 2020

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Flexibility management and provisionof balancing services with battery-electricautomated guided vehicles in the Hamburgcontainer terminal Altenwerder

Stefanie Holly, Astrid Nieße, Martin Tröschel, Lasse Hammer, Christoph Franzius, Viktor Dmitriyev, Johannes Dorfner, Eric MSP Veith, Christine Harnischmacher, Maike Greve, Kristin Masuch, Lutz Kolbe, Boris Wulff & Julian Kretz ; Oct / 2020

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Large-Scale Co-Simulation of Power Grid and Communication Network Models with Software in the Loop

Veith, Eric MSP and Kazmi, Jawad and Balduin, Stephan; ENERGY 2020, The Tenth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies; September / 2020

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Real-Time Capable Optimal Power Flow With Artificial Neural Networks

Wolgast, Thomas; Abstracts from the 9th DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics; October / 2020

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Robust and Deterministic Scheduling of Power Grid Actors

Frost, Emilie and Veith, Eric MSP and Fischer, Lars; 7th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT); June / 2020

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The Spectrum of Proactive, Resilient Multi-Microgrid Scheduling: A Systematic Literature Review

Spiegel, Michael H and Veith, Eric and Strasser, Thomas I; Energies; 2020

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2019

Adaptive Overlay Network Topologies of Smart Grid Services with Dynamic Constraint Hierarchies

Frauke Oest; Energy Informatics; 9 / 2019

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Adversarial Resilience Learning — Towards Systematic Vulnerability Analysis for Large and Complex Systems

Fischer, Lars and Memmen, Jan-Menno and Veith, Eric M. S. P. and Tröschel, Martin; ENERGY 2019, The Ninth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies; 2019

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