Solaris Mk3's composite combustion chamber mounted at Airborne Engineering during its static-fire test

MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING / MONASH UNIVERSITY

Engineering
in practice.

I'm Jerry Sun. I work on propulsion hardware and robotic composite manufacturing, combining engineering analysis with hands-on development.

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DESIGN / MANUFACTURE / TESTOn the test stand: Solaris Mk3

01 / SELECTED WORK

Built to be tested.

Composite chamber prototype with aluminium couplers on the workshop bench

PROJECT 001 / PROTOTYPE

MONASH HIGH POWERED ROCKETRY / RACE2SPACE

Solaris Mk3

Composite combustion chamber

A lightweight pressure-vessel design for a hybrid rocket engine. A case study in composite manufacture, structural analysis and learning from a hot-fire failure.

My scope includes the pre- and post-chambers, fuel grain, liner, pressure wall, fuel inserts and structural interface, from requirements and CAD to integration and test lessons.

Mechanical designCompositesTestingSystems engineering

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Solaris Mk2 firing on its vertical test stand during the Zenith validation campaign

PROJECT 002 / FLIGHT ENGINE

MONASH HIGH POWERED ROCKETRY / IREC 2025

Solaris Mk2

Project Zenith's SRAD hybrid engine

Engine component design from requirements and CAD to manufacture, testing and flight integration.

Zenith earned second place in the 10,000 ft Hybrid SRAD category at IREC 2025.

Mechanical designSystems engineeringFlight integration

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Annotated PenguinPi mobile robot platform

PROJECT 003 / ROBOTICS

ROBOTICS / AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

PenguinPi

Autonomous shopping robot

Connecting calibration, SLAM, object detection and path planning to an integrated robot control system.

RoboticsComputer visionPath planningControl

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Annotated breadboard prototype of the team’s RMS-to-DC converter

PROJECT 004 / ANALOGUE ELECTRONICS

PERSONAL PROJECT / ANALOGUE ELECTRONICS

RMS to DC

Analogue signal-processing circuit

Circuit design, LTspice simulation and breadboard testing of a converter built from discrete analogue stages.

Analogue electronicsSimulationPrototypingTesting

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Computed superpixel regions over a butterfly reference image

PROJECT 005 / COMPUTER VISION

PERSONAL LEARNING / COMPUTER VISION

Computer vision

Image-processing experiments

Exploring panorama stitching, image segmentation and restoration through implemented algorithms and visual comparisons.

PythonOpenCVImage geometrySegmentation

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Motoman AFP robot and fibre-placement hardware

PROJECT 006 / ONGOING

ONGOING RESEARCH / ROBOTIC MANUFACTURING

Robotic AFP

Programming & composite process development

Programming and operating a Motoman SK120 while investigating tow adhesion, cutting and placement reliability.

Robot programmingCompositesProcess trialsSystems engineering

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02 / ABOUT ME

Analysis meets
the workshop.

I'm a Mechatronics Engineering (Honours) student at Monash University with a particular interest in propulsion, fluid systems and robotics.

Through Monash High Powered Rocketry, I've worked on hardware intended for real testing. My research in automated fibre placement also explores the practical challenges of manufacturing composites with a six-axis robot.

I enjoy working through the details that connect a design to its manufactured part, and using test evidence to understand what to improve.

DESIGN & ANALYSIS: Mechanical design · CAD · Finite element analysis
BUILD & VALIDATION: Composite manufacture · Manual machining · Experimental testing
MECHATRONICS: Robot programming · Process development

03 / PERSONAL INTERESTS