EthicalSmartGrid
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The facts
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What it does
- 3D visuals
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Agents
- Agents represent buildings or parts of buildings, including households, offices, and schools, and act as proxies for their inhabitants.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Assessment tools
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Authoring tools
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Customization
- Users can configure scenarios with different agent numbers and profiles, energy constraints, and reward functions, and can extend or replace components.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom rewards
- Users can define custom argumentation-based reward functions with the AJAR library.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Energy model
- Agents can consume and store energy from a shared local source, use personal storage, and buy from or sell energy to the national grid.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Ethical values
- The environment models security of supply, affordability, inclusiveness, and environmental sustainability.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Framework
- It provides a Gymnasium environment for multi-agent reinforcement learning and aims to follow the Gymnasium API closely.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Framework compatibility
- The documented usage provides a PettingZoo environment designed to work with PettingZoo-compliant learning algorithms with little or no modification.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The documentation says to install it with `pip install ethical-smart-grid` or clone the project repository.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Lesson library
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- License
- The repository says the source code is licensed under the MIT License and notes that some included data may have other licenses.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Model limitation
- The project documentation says its simulated smart grid is simplified and is not developed as a realistic simulator.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Observations
- Observations are split into shared global values and agent-specific local values, including personal storage, comfort, and payoff.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Optional dependency
- Using the argumentation reward package requires the AJAR library; importing that package without AJAR raises an error.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The use-case separates shared global observations from individual local observations, which other agents cannot access.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- EthicalSmartGrid is a simplified multi-agent smart-grid simulator for learning ethical behaviours.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Reward functions
- The package includes numeric reward functions, and from version 1.2.0 it also supports argumentation-based reward functions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Rewards
- It provides numeric reward functions and, from v1.2.0, optional argumentation-based reward functions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Simulation limitation
- The documentation says the simulated grid is simplified and is not developed as a realistic simulator.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project README directs questions to GitHub Discussions and bug reports to the issue tracker.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Use case
- The simulated grid includes prosumer agents that produce and consume energy, a shared local energy source, and a connection to the national grid.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
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