Benjamin Brito Schiele
PhD
Reliable Prognostics for Wind Turbine Blade Longevity and Efficiency Optimization
Host organization
Technical University Delft (TUD)
Project Description
Uncertainty is crucial in prognostics and health management (PHM) since the future is never known with absolute precision. Although the PHM community broadly accepts this idea, the state-of-the-art remaining useful life (RUL) prognostics for various engineering systems and structures, such as wind turbine blades, does not widely incorporate uncertainty in its predictions.
In this context, the research gap that this PhD aims to tackle is creating and validating a framework capable of generating reliable outputs and making decisions regarding the operation profile that ensures a predefined level of longevity and efficiency, while satisfying operation demands.
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Supervisors
Nick Eleftheroglou
Julie Teuwen​
Background
I was born in Santiago, Chile. I received my bachelor's and master's in Electrical engineering at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (FCFM) of the University of Chile. During my master's, I had the chance to collaborate on research initiatives related to electromobility and wind energy.
For my master's thesis, I developed a Health inference and diagnostic architecture for electromobility and structural engineering applications. In that instance, I discovered my passion for the engineering field of Prognostics and Health Management. Later, that passion pushed me to pursue a PhD.
Motivation
One of my core values in life is to create new technology and knowledge that contributes to the well-being of society as a whole. That principle has led me to research renewable energy, and its adoption since clean energy generation and storage are key challenges in today's world. I am also particularly interested in contributing to the engineering field of Prognostics and Health Management due to its potential application in real-world applications. Because of the alignment of these topics, working on this PhD. is especially motivating.
