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.

能源行业正在经历两个关键驱动因素的重大变化：建设零碳能源部门和能源基础设施的数字化转型。人工智能技术和能源作为服务市场的进步进一步推动了这两个驱动力的融合，导致能源领域出现了一个新的研究领域--能源互联网(IoE)。有了万物互联，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)可以通过利用先进的5G-6G网络和人工智能技术进行连接和集成，以实现可靠的能源分配。这使得作为消费者的所有者能够参与能源市场并获得经济激励。DERS本质上是资产驱动型的，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，享有特权的个人、团体和组织可能会以牺牲弱势群体的利益为代价参与和受益。DER资源的实时管理不仅给IoE带来了公平性问题，还收集了高度敏感的位置、时间和活动相关数据，这些数据需要负责任地处理(例如，隐私、安全和安全)，以便进行人工智能增强的预测、优化和优先排序服务，以及自动管理灵活的资源。这个美国和澳大利亚的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，被称为RAI4IoE，旨在通过为每个公民提供安全、隐私保护和公平的DER网络访问来提升“能源贫困”。这项研究的结果将促进负责任的人工智能作为开发和部署万物互联系统和服务的首要原则的认识，在促进DER整合、促进与消费者、聚合器和网络运营商的深度接触以及支持可再生能源供应的灵活性市场方面。为了促进所有DER所有者和用户公平参与自动化柔性市场，启用AI的IoE应遵循负责的AI框架和准则，用于分布式监测、调度、管理和消耗DER，同时通过确保AI公平并在开放和持续发展的IoE生态系统中保护AI隐私和AI安全，来行使和保障负责任和公平的AI。该项目将为IoE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、隐私保护和公平的DER网络访问来提升“能源贫困”。该项目将沿着三个维度开发创新的解决方案。首先，它开发了一个公平的人工智能框架，以确保万物互联面向所有人，包括使资产匮乏的客户端能够参与全球DER模型的分布式学习，以及将隐私和公平感知的DER数据收集与策略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对破坏性事件的端到端弹性，这些事件包括不规则、稀疏或损坏的数据、数据和算法中的偏差、侵犯隐私和其他欺诈性DER活动。第三，通过将可解释人工智能与软件测试和验证方法相结合，开发了一套负责任和公平的人工智能合规方法。这些研究成果将导致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独特的机会，学习负责任的人工智能算法开发，以及从广泛的跨学科角度公平获取DER的重要性。这是美国和澳大利亚研究人员的联合项目，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NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。