Deep Reinforcement Learning for Power Grid Multi-Stage Cascading Failure Mitigation

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Main Authors: Meng, Bo, Xu, Chenghao, Zhu, Yongli
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author Meng, Bo
Xu, Chenghao
Zhu, Yongli
author_facet Meng, Bo
Xu, Chenghao
Zhu, Yongli
contents Cascading failures in power grids can lead to grid collapse, causing severe disruptions to social operations and economic activities. In certain cases, multi-stage cascading failures can occur. However, existing cascading-failure-mitigation strategies are usually single-stage-based, overlooking the complexity of the multi-stage scenario. This paper treats the multi-stage cascading failure problem as a reinforcement learning task and develops a simulation environment. The reinforcement learning agent is then trained via the deterministic policy gradient algorithm to achieve continuous actions. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated on the IEEE 14-bus and IEEE 118-bus systems.
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spellingShingle Deep Reinforcement Learning for Power Grid Multi-Stage Cascading Failure Mitigation
Meng, Bo
Xu, Chenghao
Zhu, Yongli
Artificial Intelligence
Systems and Control
Cascading failures in power grids can lead to grid collapse, causing severe disruptions to social operations and economic activities. In certain cases, multi-stage cascading failures can occur. However, existing cascading-failure-mitigation strategies are usually single-stage-based, overlooking the complexity of the multi-stage scenario. This paper treats the multi-stage cascading failure problem as a reinforcement learning task and develops a simulation environment. The reinforcement learning agent is then trained via the deterministic policy gradient algorithm to achieve continuous actions. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated on the IEEE 14-bus and IEEE 118-bus systems.
title Deep Reinforcement Learning for Power Grid Multi-Stage Cascading Failure Mitigation
topic Artificial Intelligence
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09012