Revolutionizing electric utilities with AI

The power sector is digitizing, enabling the use of advanced computing tools such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) to achieve operational efficiency and optimality. This technological innovation is playing a significant role in the global energy transition to meet climate goals. AI is being embraced by developed countries as a critical tool for reducing energy waste, lowering costs, and accelerating the adoption of clean, renewable energy sources in power grids worldwide, as well as improving power system operation, maintenance, control, and planning. AI applications have revolutionized electric utility operations such as customer engagement, managing electrification of transportation and smart neighborhoods, electrical grid digitization, and electrical network asset digitization

Revolutionizing electric utilities with AI

The power sector is digitizing, enabling the use of advanced computing tools such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) to achieve operational efficiency and optimality. This technological innovation is playing a significant role in the global energy transition to meet climate goals. AI is being embraced by developed countries as a critical tool for reducing energy waste, lowering costs, and accelerating the adoption of clean, renewable energy sources in power grids worldwide, as well as improving power system operation, maintenance, control, and planning. AI applications have revolutionized electric utility operations such as customer engagement, managing electrification of transportation and smart neighborhoods, electrical grid digitization, and electrical network asset digitization

Real-time extraction of growth rates from rotating substrates during molecular-beam epitaxy

We present a method for measuring molecular‐beam epitaxy growth rates in near real‐time on rotating substrates. This is done by digitizing a video image of the reflection high‐energy electron diffraction screen, automatically tracking and measuring the specular spot width, and using numerical techniques to filter the resulting signal. The digitization and image and signal processing take approximately 0.4 s to accomplish, so this technique offers the molecular‐beam epitaxy grower the ability to actively adjust growth times in order to deposit a desired layer thickness. The measurement has a demonstrated precision of approximately 2%, which is sufficient to allow active control of epilayer thickness by counting monolayers as they are deposited. When postgrowth techniques, such as frequency domain analysis, are also used, the reflection high‐energy electron diffraction measurement of layer thickness on rotating substrates improves to a precision of better than 1%. Since all of the components in the system described are commercially available, duplication is straightforward

LCDG4 and DigiSim - Simulation activities at NICADD/NIU

We present two software packages developed to support detector R&D studies for the International Linear Collider. LCDG4 is a full-detector simulator that provides energy deposits from particles traversing the sensitive volumes of the detector. It has been extensively used within the American ILC community, providing data for algorithm development and detector optimization studies. DigiSim models real-life digitization effects, converting the idealized response into simulated detector readout. It has many useful features to improve the realism in modeling detector response. The main characteristics of these two complementary packages are discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures, submitted to LCWS05 conference proceedings. Uses slac_one.rt

Semi-DHCAL software developments: Digitization and Display

GRPC Semi-Digital HCAL is a solid option for the PFA oriented calorimetry of the International Linear Collider. Together with the hardware, the software developments is progressing steadily. The stauts and plans for the GRPC SDHCAL software development are presented, as well the first order digitization module for the GRPC and the display program DRUID (Display Root module Used for ILD) have been introduced.Comment: Proceeding of LCWS 2010, Beijin