Engineering portfolio
Zhaolin Wei
Mechatronics & Controls Engineer
I design and analyze physical systems — from precision machinery and motor drives to industrial automation, robotics and engineering software.
Currently working in industrial controls & automation at FPS Food Process Solutions · Richmond, BC
01 / Selected engineering work
Designed, modeled, built.
01 Precision machinery
Designing the assembly, not just the part.
SolidWorks assemblies, bearing selection, thermal management and interference-fit validation for industrial CNC spindle systems.
Explore project : High-Speed Motor Spindle
02 Additive manufacturing
Closing the loop on heat.
UBC graduate thesis on melt-pool temperature feedback and thermal stabilization in laser-based directed energy deposition.
Explore project : L-DED Closed-Loop Temperature Monitoring
03 Control & simulation
From voltage limits to motor behavior.
A MATLAB/Simulink BLDC drive model exploring Maximum Torque Per Voltage control through average-value simulation and voltage lead-angle analysis.
Explore project : BLDC Motor Drive — MTPV Control Optimization
04 Industrial automation
Making feedback useful on the floor.
An internship project at Sands China combining a monitoring interface, closed-loop temperature control and multi-zone HVAC automation.
Explore project : Autonomous HVAC Control System
05 Robotics & vision
Following motion in three dimensions.
Stereo vision tracking of surgical instruments and soft tissue using Lucas–Kanade optical flow and Shi–Tomasi corner detection.
Explore project : 3D Surgical Instrument & Tissue Tracking
06 Robotics · In progress
A platform for learning by demonstration.
Hardware assembly, actuator control and teleoperation integration for a low-cost AlohaMini dual-arm mobile manipulator.
Explore project : Low-Cost Dual-Arm Mobile Robot — AlohaMini02 / Engineering domains
Working across the system.
Mechanical Systems
Precision assemblies, rotating machinery, tolerancing and failure analysis — connecting design decisions to manufacturing constraints.
Industrial Automation
Monitoring interfaces, sensor feedback and engineering software that connect physical equipment with practical controls.
Controls & Automation
Motor-drive models, thermal feedback and machining dynamics, explored through MATLAB, Simulink and Python.
Robotics & AI
Vision-based tracking and robot integration, with ongoing work on teleoperation and data collection for imitation learning.
03 / About
From the drawing
to the system.
I work across mechanical systems, controls, industrial automation, and robotics. My background includes precision machinery, motor-drive modeling, instrumentation, manufacturing, and computer vision.
Control Technician
FPS Food Process Solutions Corporation
Richmond, BC · 2026–Present
E.I.T. · CSWP · CMfgT · Six Sigma Green Belt · M.Eng UBC
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