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Article

An End-to-End Hierarchical Intelligent Inference Model for Collaborative Operation of Grid Switches

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College of Electrical and New Energy, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China
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Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Operation and Control of Cascaded Hydropower Station, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China
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School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Energies 2025, 18(24), 6574; https://doi.org/10.3390/en18246574
Submission received: 31 October 2025 / Revised: 2 December 2025 / Accepted: 10 December 2025 / Published: 16 December 2025

Abstract

To address the issue of heavy reliance on manual intervention in substation maintenance tasks, this paper proposes an end-to-end hierarchical intelligent inference method for collaborative operation of grid switches. The method constructs a unified knowledge environment that can simultaneously describe the operational characteristics of both the power grid and the substation, and combines Dueling Double Deep Q-Network (D3QN) with Multi-Task Dueling Double Deep Q-Network (MT-D3QN) algorithms for interactive training, achieving hierarchical inference. The upper layer uses bays as the base nodes to reflect the power flow, designing a reward and penalty function under N-1 power flow constraints and ring-current impact constraints, optimizing the load transfer plan for the power outages caused by maintenance tasks. The lower layer uses switches as the base nodes to reflect the main wiring status of the substation, introduces a multi-task learning mechanism for parallel training of bays with the same tasks, designs the reward and penalty function according to the five protection rules, and optimizes the switching operations within the bay. The experimental results show that the trained model can quickly deduce the switching operation sequence for different maintenance tasks.
Keywords: substation maintenance; transfer supply; switching operations; deep reinforcement learning substation maintenance; transfer supply; switching operations; deep reinforcement learning

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MDPI and ACS Style

Zhao, M.; Chen, T.; Yuan, J.; Jiang, Y.; Ren, J. An End-to-End Hierarchical Intelligent Inference Model for Collaborative Operation of Grid Switches. Energies 2025, 18, 6574. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18246574

AMA Style

Zhao M, Chen T, Yuan J, Jiang Y, Ren J. An End-to-End Hierarchical Intelligent Inference Model for Collaborative Operation of Grid Switches. Energies. 2025; 18(24):6574. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18246574

Chicago/Turabian Style

Zhao, Mingrui, Tie Chen, Jiaxin Yuan, Yuting Jiang, and Junlin Ren. 2025. "An End-to-End Hierarchical Intelligent Inference Model for Collaborative Operation of Grid Switches" Energies 18, no. 24: 6574. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18246574

APA Style

Zhao, M., Chen, T., Yuan, J., Jiang, Y., & Ren, J. (2025). An End-to-End Hierarchical Intelligent Inference Model for Collaborative Operation of Grid Switches. Energies, 18(24), 6574. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18246574

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