Resilience enhancement for interdependent power systems by AI-assisted disaster response

The failure of urban Electrical Distribution Systems (EDSs) can lead to direct or indirect consequences for their interdependent critical infrastructures, for example, the hospitals, the fire department, etc., negatively affecting the well-being of citizens in the city. To improve the resilience of the coupled power network, the Operational Interdependence Simulator (OIS) is proposed to help prioritize the queue of failure recovery and Minimum Spanning Tree and Shortest Path Tree topology reconfiguration to minimize critical load downtime. Additionally, AI agents are introduced to assist decision-making processes. By utilizing machine learning and training in thousands of offline scenarios, the system can be used for real-time calculation of the optimal recovery paths when given the number and location of electrical faults. The IEEE 70-node distribution system case validated the high prediction accuracy and post-disaster topology reconfiguration while considering the interdependencies.