{"id":502,"date":"2024-11-28T15:12:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/energy-group-self-aware-power-networks\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2024-12-05T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T16:24:15","slug":"work-programme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/energy-group-self-aware-power-networks\/work-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;line-height: 1.6;color: #333\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">To address the open challenge of provisioning self-organizing capabilities in future large-scale distributed power networks, such as the Smart Grid, we propose a paradigm shift to support real-time adaptivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">Our objective is to enable real-time self-maintenance, self-healing, and self-reconfiguration capabilities for next-generation distributed power systems.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">Our novel approach offers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">A scalable, high-accuracy, real-time distributed monitoring scheme for highly dynamic and complex systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">An autonomous search and learning framework that balances exploration and exploitation through self-control.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">An autonomous network topology reconfiguration framework to adapt to dynamic changes in supply and load demands.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">Our project is structured into three key phases, each addressing specific challenges:<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 218px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 99.2546%\">\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 78.7979%\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\"><strong style=\"color: #b5121b\">Phase 1: Distributed Monitoring<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\"><strong>Key challenges:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">Deriving an optimal set of subsystems for distributed monitoring with sufficient information to generate analytical hypotheses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">Differentiating anomalies resulting from internal and external threats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">Dealing with uncertainties in both endogenous and exogenous aspects.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.2021%\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/energy-group-self-aware-power-networks\/files\/2024\/11\/magnifying-glass-is-table-with-green-blue-background_445983-14351-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Distributed Monitoring\" width=\"346\" height=\"193\" class=\"\" style=\"float: right;margin-left: 15px;margin-bottom: 10px\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 78.7979%\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\"><strong style=\"color: #b5121b;font-size: 18.6667px\">Phase 2: Autonomous Search and Learning<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit\">Key challenges:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">Characterising the operating environment of the complex system to satisfy the balance between exploration and exploitation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">Managing the combinatorial explosion in machine learning search space for interdependent and growing power grids.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\">Balancing the multiple power flow streams from renewable energy sources.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.2021%\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/energy-group-self-aware-power-networks\/files\/2024\/11\/cropped-brain-lights-300x172.png\" alt=\"Autonomous Search and Learning\" width=\"347\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 15px;margin-bottom: 10px\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 78.7979%\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #b5121b;font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif\"><strong>Phase 3: Network Topology 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