Profesores
Roger Schurch
PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, Reino Unido
Ingeniero Civil Electricista, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Áreas de especialización
Técnicas de alta tensión, envejecimiento de materiales aislantes, árboles eléctricos y descargas parciales, diagnóstico de equipamiento eléctrico de alta tensión
Publicaciones (Publications)
- (2026) Camilo Alvear Jorquera, Jorge Alfredo Ardila-Rey, Bruno Albuquerque de Castro, Roger Schurch, Johny Montaña, Carlos Boya and Luis Orellana. "An Innovative Approach to Early Warning of Flashover via Pollution-Induced Radio Frequency Activity on High-Voltage Ceramic Insulators". IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 10.1109/TIM.2026.3659591
- (2025) Sergi Torres Araya, Jorge Ardila-Rey, Matías Cerda Luna, Jorge Portilla, Suganya Govindarajan, Camilo Alvear Jorquera and Roger Schurch. "Performance assessment of machine learning techniques in electronic nose systems for power transformer fault detection". Energy and AI. 10.1016/j.egyai.2025.100497
- (2024) Johny Montaña, Carlos Valle, Sergio Rosales, Roger Schurch and Diana Pozo. "Predicting Algorithm of Thunderstorm Days in the Northern Region of Chile Using Convolution Neural Network". IEEE Access. 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3445320
- (2024) Jorge Alfredo Ardila-Rey, Daniel Figueroa Karmelic, Francisco Pizarro, Suganya Govindarajan, Bruno Albuquerque de Castro and Roger Schurch. "Bioinspired Ultrahigh Frequency Antenna for Partial Discharge Detection in High-Voltage Equipment". IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 10.1109/TIM.2024.3421437
- (2023) Giacomo Buccella, Andrea Villa, Davide Ceresoli, Roger Schurch, Luca Barbieri, Roberto Malgesini and Daniele Palladini. "A computational modelling of carbon layer formation on treeing branches". Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 10.1088/1361-651X/acac44
- (2023) Osvaldo Muñoz, Roger Schurch and Jorge Alfredo Ardila-Rey "Electrical Tree Growth Identification by Means of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)". IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 10.1109/TIM.2023.3284922
- (2023) Roger Schurch, Osvaldo Munoz, Jorge Ardila-Rey, Pablo Donoso andnVidyadhar Peesapati. "Identification of Electrical Tree Aging State in Epoxy Resin Using Partial Discharge Waveforms Compared to Traditional Analysis". Polymers. 10.3390/polym15112461
- (2022) Andrea Villa, Roger Schurch, Giacomo Buccella, Luca Barbieri, Christian Laurano, Roberto Malgesini and Daniele Palladini a. "Simulation of surface-plasma interaction with high surface conductivity". Journal of Computational Physics. 10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111029
- (2021) Andrea Villa, Roger Schurch, Luca Barbieri, Roberto Malgesini and Giacomo Buccella. "An uncoupled implementation of the local mean energy plasma model". Journal of Computational Physics. 10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110674
- (2021) Johny Montana, Carlos Morales, María Gabriela Nicora, Jorge Alfredo Ardila-Rey, Roger Schurch and Daniel Aranguren. "Lightning Activity Over Chilean Territory". Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 10.1029/2021JD034580
- (2021) Carlos Madariaga, Roger Schurch, Jorge Ardila-Rey, Osvaldo Muñoz and Sebastián Fingerhuth. "Partial Discharge Electrical Tree Growth Identification by Means of Waveform Source Separation Techniques". IEEE Access. 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3075914
- (2021) Jorge Alfredo Ardila-Rey, Roger Schurch, Nicolás Medina Poblete, Suganya Govindarajan, Osvaldo Muñoz and Bruno Albuquerque de Castro. "Separation of Partial Discharges Sources and Noise Based on the Temporal and Spectral Response of the Signals". IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 10.1109/TIM.2021.3121488
- (2021) Jersim Araya, Johny Montaña and Roger Schurch. "Electric field distribution and leakage currents in glass insulator under different altitudes and pollutions conditions using FEM simulations". IEEE Latin America Transactions. 10.1109/TLA.2021.9475858
- (2021) Abdullahi Abubakar Mas’ud, Arunachalam Sundaram, Jorge Alfredo Ardila-Rey, Roger Schurch, Firdaus Muhammad-Sukki and Nurul Aini Bani. "Application of the gaussian mixture model to classify stages of electrical tree growth in epoxy resin". Sensors. 10.3390/s21072562
- (2020) Luis Orellana, Gonzalo Avaria, Jorge Ardila-Rey, Sergio Davis, Roger Schurch and Cristian Pavez. "Inference of X-Ray Emission from a Plasma Focus Discharge: Comparison between Characteristic Parameters and Neural Network Analyses". IEEE Access. 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2990372
- (2020) Pablo Donoso, Roger Schurch, Jorge Ardila and Luis Orellana. "Analysis of partial discharges in electrical tree growth under very low frequency (vlf) excitation through pulse sequence and nonlinear time series analysis". IEEE Access. 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3022292
- (2020) Claudio Álvarez, Mónica López-Campos, Raul Stegmaier, Fernando Mancilla-David, Roger Schurch and Alejandro Angulo. "A Condition-Based Maintenance Model including Resource Constraints on the Number of Inspections". IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 10.1109/TR.2019.2955558
- (2019) Luis Orellana, Jorge Ardila-Rey, Gonzalo Avaria, Marcos A. Díaz, Cristian Pavez, Roger Schurch and Leopoldo Soto. "On the Relationship between the Electromagnetic Burst and Inductive Sensor Measurement of a Pulsed Plasma Accelerator". IEEE Access. 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2941466
- (2019) Roger Schurch, Jorge Alfredo Ardila-Rey, Johny Montana, Alejandro Angulo, Simón Rowland, Ibrahim Iddrissu and Robert S Bradley. "3D characterization of electrical tree structures". IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation. 10.1109/TDEI.2018.007486
Proyectos (Research projects)
- (2024) "Modelo de predicción de actividad eléctrica atmosférica basado en información histórica de la red WWWLLN, variables meteorológicas y parámetros geográficos para el territorio chileno". PI_LIR_2022_14. Proyecto interno USM. Investigador asociado.
- (2024-2023) "Improving HVDC Lines Reliability through Enhancing Understanding of Dielectric Interfaces in Composite Insulators". 1242037 ANID - Fondecyt Regular. Investigador principal.
- (2023-2022) "Herramienta de localización e identificación de descargas parciales para el diagnóstico de equipamiento eléctrico de potencia utilizando técnicas de inteligencia artificial". PI_M_2022_09. Proyecto interno USM. Investigador asociado.
- (2021-2018) "Analysis of electrical trees and partial discharges under harmonic content to improve asset management and high voltage insulation designs". 11181177. ANID - Fondecyt de Iniciación. Investigador principal.
- (2020-2018) "Análisis de la propagación de árboles eléctricos para el diagnóstico del estado de aislamiento eléctrico de alta tensión". PI_L_18_19. Proyecto interno USM. Investigador principal.