Friday 4 April 2025 at 2:00 PM CET, 8:00 AM EST By Rodica Mihai (NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Norway) Register now using the link below: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2116671379466260830 Full Title: Autonomous decision-making in critical operations through complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems: key learnings from the research, development and demonstration in a real-world example Abstract: In critical operations, an AI system for decision-making should cope with poor observability, poor predictability and high-risk scenarios that can lead to highly damageable situations. At the same time domain knowledge plays a crucial role in the research and development of these solutions. These aspects will be touched upon in connection with a real-world case, from automation of drilling operations in geothermal and oil and gas. The use case considered involves multiple providers and this is reflected on the data and information flow, adding a new level of complexity for any decision-making system. This raises several challenges including how to ensure stability of such a multi-agent system. When dealing with autonomous decision-making in critical operations, the management of transition from automatic/autonomous to manual mode is an important safety requirement and the algorithmic approach with domain constraints given by the use case will be presented. The key learnings that ...

Wednesday 19 March 2025 at 4:00 PM PKT, 12:00 PM CET, 6:00 AM EST By Hadeed Ahmed Sher, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK) Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. Register now using the link below: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3971093397019360854 Abstract: Photovoltaic systems are one of the most promising solutions of clean energy. The scale of PV plants ranges from the domestic to commercial applications. Like every other power system, they are prone to various kind of faults. In this talk, I will give an overview of the major faults in a PV plants. In addition, emphasis will be given to electrical faults i.e. line to line (L-L) and line to ground (L-G) faults. PV array fault occurs gradually due to the slow deterioration of PV cable or panel insulation. As a result, the insulation impedance, slowly disappears from the high value to 0. Most of the literature methods analyze and detect faults at zero fault impedance. However, for a finite fault resistance, the detection, classification and localization of the fault becomes a challenging problem. The state-of-the-art algorithms in this regard will be discussed in detail. Presenter’s bio: HADEED AHMED SHER (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree from ...