cs.AIJun 12, 2026

A Quantum-Assisted Agentic Distributed Artificial Intelligence Framework for Deadline-Bounded Orchestration of Hybrid Renewable Microgrids

Authors: Iacovos I. Ioannou, Saher Javaid, Minella Bezha, Yasuo Tan, Naoto Nagaoka, Vasos Vassiliou

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The real-time orchestration of microgrids that combine fluctuating renewable sources, dispatchable units, storage and curtailable consumers requires the repeated solution of combinatorial dispatch and coalition formation problems under hard control deadlines. In this paper, a quantum-assisted agentic distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) framework is proposed in which the dispatch problem of each control slot is formulated as a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem by Belief-Desire-Intention extended (BDIx) agents and is solved by a portfolio of quantum, quantum-inspired and classical solvers. Solver selection is elevated to a first-class agentic deliberation action of the coordinator agent. Learned beliefs about solver latencies are maintained and the solver intention that is expected to satisfy the prevailing deliberation deadline is committed in each slot. In addition, a belief-shaped storage valuation mechanism is introduced through which the storage agent prices its energy at a discounted future-peak value, injecting intertemporal information into the otherwise myopic per-slot optimization. The framework is evaluated on a 24-hour simulation of a grid-connected microgrid with photovoltaic, wind, battery, genset and demand-response assets, with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) executed by statevector simulation and benchmarked per slot against tabu search, simulated annealing, binary particle swarm optimization, greedy descent and exhaustive enumeration. Zero deliberation deadlines are missed, the committed dispatch attains the exact optimum on every slot and the realized daily cost of 146.24 EUR equals the exact lower bound, with 97.83 percent renewable utilization and zero unserved energy. When the storage valuation mechanism is deactivated, the daily cost is increased to 152.75 EUR, a 4.5 percent increase.

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