NSF-CSIRO: RAI4IoE: Responsible AI for Enabling the Internet of Energy

NSF-CSIRO：RAI4IoE：负责任的人工智能实现能源互联网

• 批准号: 2302720
• 负责人: Ling Liu
• 金额: $ 59.95万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2302720&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; CSIRO; RAI4IoE; Responsible; AI

The energy sector is going through substantial changes fueled by two key drivers: building a zero-carbon energy sector and the digital transformation of the energy infrastructure. The advances in AI technology and energy as a service market further fuel the convergence of these two drivers, resulting in the emergence of a new field of research in the energy sector – the Internet of Energy (IoE). With IoE, renewable distributed energy resources (DERs), such as electric cars, storage batteries, wind turbines and photovoltaics, can be connected and integrated for reliable energy distribution by leveraging advanced 5G-6G networks and AI technology. This allows DER owners as prosumers to participate in the energy market and derive economic incentives. DERs are inherently asset-driven and face equitable challenges (i.e., fair, diverse and inclusive). Without equitable access, privileged individuals, groups and organizations can participate and benefit at the cost of disadvantaged groups. The real-time management of DER resources not only brings out the equity problem to the IoE, it also collects highly sensitive location, time, activity dependent data, which requires to be handled responsibly (e.g., privacy, security and safety), for AI-enhanced predictions, for optimization and prioritization services, and for automated management of flexible resources. This US-Australia joint project plans to develop Equitable and Responsible AI framework, techniques and algorithms for the Internet of Energy, coined as RAI4IoE, aiming to elevate "energy poverty" by providing secure, privacy-preserving and equitable access to the networks of DERs for every citizen. The outcome of this research will advance the knowledge of responsible AI as the first principle in developing and deploying the IoE systems and services, in facilitating DER integration, promoting deep engagement with prosumers, aggregators and network operators, and enabling flexibility market of renewable energy supply.To facilitate equitable participation of all DER owners and users in the automated flexibility market, AI enabled IOE should be governed by the responsible AI frameworks and guidelines for distributed monitoring, scheduling, management, and consumption of DERs, while exercising and guaranteeing responsible and equitable AI through ensuring AI fairness and safeguarding AI privacy and AI security in an open and continuously evolving IoE ecosystem. This project will develop responsible AI frameworks, algorithms and compliance evaluation methods for the IoE, aiming to elevate "energy poverty" by providing secure, privacy-preserving and equitable access to the networks of DERs for every citizen. The project will develop innovative solutions along three dimensions. First, it develops an equitable AI framework for ensuring IoE for all, including enabling asset-poor clients to participate in distributed learning of global DER models, and integrating privacy and fairness-aware DER data collection with policy-driven data governance. Second, it develops a suite of responsible AI Algorithms and Models to increase the end-to-end resilience of IoE against disruptive events, including irregular, sparse or corrupted data, biases in data and algorithms, privacy violations, and other fraudulent DER activities. Third, it develops a suite of responsible and equitable AI compliance methods by combining explainable AI with software testing and verification methods. The research findings will lead to new generations of AI-enhanced distributed energy resource management systems. This research will also provide graduate and under-graduate students with diverse backgrounds the unique opportunities to learn responsible AI algorithm development, and the importance of equitable access to DERs from a broad cross-disciplinary perspective.This is a joint project between U.S. and Australian researchers funded by the Collaboration Opportunities in Responsible and Equitable AI under the U.S. NSF and the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

能源行业正在经历由两个关键驱动因素推动的重大变革：建设零碳能源行业和能源基础设施的数字化转型。人工智能技术和能源即服务市场的进步进一步推动了这两个驱动因素的融合，从而催生了能源领域一个新的研究领域——能源互联网（IoE）。通过万物互联，可以利用先进的5G-6G网络和人工智能技术，连接和集成电动汽车、蓄电池、风力涡轮机和光伏等可再生分布式能源（DER），实现可靠的能源分配。这使得 DER 所有者作为产消者能够参与能源市场并获得经济激励。分布式能源本质上是资产驱动的，面临公平的挑战（即公平、多样化和包容性）。如果没有公平的机会，特权个人、团体和组织就可以参与并受益，而牺牲弱势群体的利益。分布式能源资源的实时管理不仅给万物互联带来了公平问题，而且还收集高度敏感的位置、时间、活动相关数据，这些数据需要负责任地处理（例如隐私、安全和保障），用于人工智能增强预测、优化和优先级服务以及灵活资源的自动化管理。这个美国-澳大利亚联合项目计划为能源互联网开发公平和负责任的人工智能框架、技术和算法，称为 RAI4IoE，旨在通过为每个公民提供安全、保护隐私和公平的 DER 网络访问来消除“能源贫困”。这项研究的成果将推进负责任的人工智能的知识，作为开发和部署 IoE 系统和服务的首要原则，促进 DER 集成，促进与产消者、聚合商和网络运营商的深入参与，并实现可再生能源供应的灵活性市场。为了促进所有 DER 所有者和用户公平参与自动化灵活性市场，人工智能支持的 IOE 应由负责任的人工智能框架和 分布式能源的分布式监控、调度、管理和消耗指南，同时在开放且不断发展的万物互联生态系统中，通过确保人工智能公平、保护人工智能隐私和人工智能安全，行使和保证负责任和公平的人工智能。该项目将为万物互联开发负责任的人工智能框架、算法和合规性评估方法，旨在通过为每个公民提供安全、保护隐私和公平的分布式能源网络访问来消除“能源贫困”。该项目将沿着三个维度开发创新解决方案。首先，它开发了一个公平的人工智能框架，以确保所有人的万物互联，包括使资产匮乏的客户能够参与全球分布式能源模型的分布式学习，并将隐私和公平意识的分布式能源数据收集与政策驱动的数据治理相结合。其次，它开发了一套负责任的人工智能算法和模型，以提高 IoE 应对破坏性事件的端到端弹性，这些破坏性事件包括不规则、稀疏或损坏的数据、数据和算法的偏差、隐私侵犯以及其他欺诈性 DER 活动。第三，通过将可解释的人工智能与软件测试和验证方法相结合，开发出一套负责任且公平的人工智能合规方法。研究成果将催生新一代人工智能增强的分布式能源管理系统。这项研究还将为不同背景的研究生和本科生提供学习负责任的人工智能算法开发的独特机会，以及从广泛的跨学科角度公平获得分布式资源的重要性。这是美国和澳大利亚研究人员之间的联合项目，由美国国家科学基金会和澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）下的负责任和公平人工智能合作机会资助。该奖项反映了 通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。