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An autonomous AI-based self-healing framework integrating machine learning and a distributed Multi-Agent System achieves 99.9% accuracy for known faults and 94.5% for unseen faults, enabling scalable fault detection and service restoration in smart distribution networks. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To develop and evaluate an autonomous, decentralized self-healing framework combining supervised learning, autoencoder anomaly detection, and multi-agent systems for fault handling and restoration in active distribution networks.

September 5, 2026Energy InformaticsOpen Access

An autonomous AI framework for automated fault handling and system restoration in smart distribution networks

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VHVishakh K. HariharanAmrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham MNManjula G. NairIndian Institute of Technology Patna FGFabrizio GranelliUniversity of Trento

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Experimental study demonstrates autonomous fault isolation and service restoration in active distribution networks, suggesting enhanced resilience under high renewable energy penetration.

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To develop and evaluate an autonomous, decentralized self-healing framework combining supervised learning, autoencoder anomaly detection, and multi-agent systems for fault handling and restoration in active distribution networks.
Integrated supervised machine learning models for known fault detection with an autoencoder-based unsupervised anomaly detection model for identifying novel, unseen faults.
Coupled machine learning detection with a distributed Multi-Agent System (MAS) architecture for coordinated fault isolation and automated service restoration.
Validated the framework on a simulated nine-bus active distribution system and evaluated physical multi-agent coordination using a hardware prototype.
The proposed autoencoder model achieved 94.5% accuracy for previously unseen fault detection and 99.9% accuracy for known faults.
Conventional supervised machine learning models exhibited substantially lower detection performance when evaluated on previously unseen fault scenarios.

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Hariharan et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9bd49d6b95aff0620ec709 https://doi.org/10.1186/s42162-026-00686-x

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Experimental study demonstrates autonomous fault isolation and service restoration in active distribution networks, suggesting enhanced resilience under high renewable energy penetration.

An autonomous AI framework for automated fault handling and system restoration in smart distribution networks

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