October 29 - October 30
enakronIC will represent CL3E and COP-PILOT at the 6th Conference on Foundation Models of the Electric Grid (GridFM 2026). INESC TEC hosts the conference at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto on 29–30 October 2026. ENIC’s poster was accepted for the conference’s Poster Session.
The poster is titled “Supernetwork Architecture Selection for Deployable Language Models: RAG Assessment of Overhead-Line Insulators on a 2 GB Device for Grid Operator’s Maintenance Crews”, by Vasilis Rizeakos, Dimitrios Brodimas and Athanasios Bachoumis. It presents an on-device assistant for crews who inspect overhead-line insulator strings from drone photographs. The assistant combines a two-stage vision detector with retrieval from IEC, CIGRE, and operator documentation, and a small language model that runs on a 2 GB edge board. It avoids hallucination by construction: findings are fixed text set by rule, every answer cites reviewed sources, and code-level guards check the answers. A single super-network training run produces eleven deployable model sizes. A selection rule then picks the fastest model that meets the quality target and fits the device’s memory, reaching a quality score of 0.85 at 1,172 MB on the board. The work matches Cluster 3E’s focus on edge intelligence for grid reliability in RES-rich distribution grids by providing AI that is trustworthy, aware of its hardware limits, and deployable at the edge, to support grid operators and field crews.
The event will give COP-PILOT visibility with the European and international grid-AI community and a chance to discuss edge-AI deployment for grid operators with researchers and utilities.
