Kalender

Welcome to the first lecture. This lecture, as for all lectures in the course will be held in the Cegrellroom, at Osquldas väg 10, floor 7.

Lecture slides can be downloaded here.

Also, please check out this clip from Michael Wooldridge

This lecture covers the idea of autonomous intelligent agents.

The lecture slides can be downloaded here.

This lecture is actually a workshop at which an introduction to Java programming. It provides an opportunity to test your skills so that you can determine if you need to attend the voluntary sessions later in the week.

This lecture is cancelled.

This lecture covers practical reasoning agents, and also a brief overview of Hybrid agents.

The lecture slides can be downloaded here.

First JACK programming session.

This lecture introduces searching and planning as a method for Agent decision making.

The lecture slides can be downloaded here.

Second JACK programming session.

As usual, this lecture is in the Cegrellroom.

Unfortunately (due to my poor planning) the lecture will only be 45 minutes long, starting at 13.15 as usual, but ending already at 14.00.

The lecture slides can be downloaded here, during the lecture I will cover the CSP part, and will have to leave the rest for you to read up on in the textbook.

Third JACK programming session.

Lecture slides can be downloaded Lecture 7.

Fourth JACK programming session.

This lecture will be used to catch-up on the parts of Multi-agent interactions that were let out because of rescheduling earlier.

The lecture slides can be found here..

Fifth JACK programming session.

During the seminar, the reading assignment is presented.

Each student presents the paper he/she has studied and the findings are discussed.

Lecture slides can be found here: Lecture 9 slides. 

Download the PDDL workshop material here: PDDL Workshop

The planned guest lecture on November 24th is cancelled. We still have hopes of arranging something later in december - stay tuned.

Lars

For this lecture we will be visited by Kai Heussen of DTO who will be giving a speech on demand response and flexibility in distribution grids. The speech starts at 10.15 and runs for 45 minutes until 11.00 - Welcome!

Abstract

For many, active distribution grids and smart girds are synonymous. However, the vision for active distribution grids is one of incremental automation, where increased transparency in measurements is used in combination with more active control of local devices, such as OLTCs, SVC or FACTS. Here a previously "passive" distribution grid is turned into and 'active' one.
For others, smart grids have been synonymous with smart metering and demand response, where the frequent metering of consumers, combined with some form of feedback through prices would turn 'passive consumers' into 'active prosumers'.

Using demand response for handling distribution grid issues is thus not trivial, as both the complexities of demand response, flexibility aggregation and management, and the aspect of more active distribution grids are integrated. 
The Danish iPower project recently demonstrated an approach to addressing this challenge: the FLExibility ClearingHouse (FLECH). As a market-oriented approach FLECH facilitates transactions and clearing of distribution grid flexibility services. Providing a framework for multiple the technical realizations of flexibility services to FLECH adapts to the capability level of DSOs and aggregators.

This talk will introduce the FLECH concept in context of distribution grid operations, as well as different types of distribution grid services that may be facilitated by FLECH. After this introduction and results from a recent demonstration, we turn to discussing a mapping of FLECH and DSO services to the smart grid architecture model as well as possible realizations using an agent based implementation.

Short bio of Prof Heussen

Kai Heussen (Assistant Professor; M’2007 Uni. Stuttgart, PhD’2011 DTU) is currently engaged in several research projects on demand side management, modeling and ancillary service markets, and lead the project RTLabOS on software for  simulation-integrated smart grid labs. With a background in control theory and power systems, he currently focusses on decision support for automation in power systems. His research addresses the cross-section of knowledge-based approaches in information technology and automation engineering, with application focus on operation of electric power system and planning of energy systems.

Presentation of projects.

The session starts 09.15