Title: Learning to run a power network in a sustainable world Part I: The RTE competition and problem definition
Date: July 23, 2020
Bio: Antoine Marot is the lead AI scientist at RTE. He owns a double master degree in Engineering from Ecole
Centrale Paris and Stanford University. After interning at Tesla Motors, he joined RTE R&D on the Apogee
project 6 years ago with the long term goal to develop a personal assistant for control room operators with AI.
Through collaboration with INRIA (the french AI research lab), he supervised several PHD students on
augmented power system simulators with AI and on Human-Intelligent Machine interactions with a strong focus
on interpretability. He recently co-authored several papers using AI for power systems and gave different talks
on the topic such as IJCNN AI conference keynote. He advocates for a new "AI for power system community"
bringing together researchers from both fields to accelerate the application of AI. The « Learning to Run a Power
Network « challenge which will run along NeurIPS 2020, the largest AI conference, is a strong step forward
towards it.
Abstract: On the way towards a sustainable future, this competition aims at unleashing the power of
reinforcement learning for a real-world industrial application: controlling electricity power transmission and
moving closer to truly “smart” grids using underutilized flexibilities. In track 1, develop your agent to be robust
to unexpected events and keep delivering reliable electricity everywhere even in difficult circumstances. In track
2, develop your agent to adapt to new energy productions in the grid with an increasing share of less controllable
renewable energies over years.