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A team of US researchers has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that could help electrical grids prevent power outages by automatically rerouting electricity in milliseconds...
The automated system, published online in the journal Nature Communications, is an early example of self-healing grid technology, which uses AI to detect and repair problems such as outages and storm-damaged power lines on its own without human intervention...
Researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas demonstrated that their solution can automatically identify alternative routes to transfer electricity to users before an outage occurs..
Our goal is to find the optimal path to send power to the majority of users as quickly as possible, said Dr Jie Zhang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science...
Roshni Anna Jacob, an electrical engineering doctoral student at the varsity, said that electricity blocked due to line faults can be reconfigured using switches and power from available sources nearby, such as from large-scale solar panels or batteries...
