Alice Xiong Gallery

Ring Chain Experiments

Modelling and measuring solitary waves in polycatenated ring chains, Daraio Group, Caltech.

Rattlesnake Rattle Acoustics

Simulating how interlocking keratin shells turn shaking into sound, with discrete-element contact dynamics and finite-element vibration and acoustics.

Wireless Drone

A passively controlled, wirelessly powered, and self stabilizing quadcopter system, designed for my capstone project.

Smart Roller for Automatic Fiber Placement

A soft capacitive sensor array that can be wrapped on a smart roller for automatic fiber placement machines.

Holographic Variational Time Evolution

Undergraduate thesis project supervised by Prof. Drew Potter combining variational time evolution and holographic quantum circuits.

Michelson Interferometry

Presentation given to a high school audience about Michelson interferometers.

Flexible Tactile Sensors

Video summarizing the flexible tactile sensors developed at the UBC Molecular Mechatronics Lab.

Polarons and bipolarons

My summer research in condensed matter theory, supervised by Prof. Mona Berciu, on polarons and bipolarons in iron-based superconductors.

Analysis of Magnetic Pendulum

Investigation of the motion of a pendulum swinging above three magnets using small angle approximation and Lagrangian mechanics.

Operational Amplifier Design

Schematics and LTSpice simulation of a differential operational amplifier built from MOSFETs.

Can Collection Robot

Engineering Physics robot competition project. Robot that collects cans built out of home components.

UBC Rocket Avionics System

Hardware and embedded program development for avionics control system of a liquid-fuel rocket.

Robot Launcher Optimization

Developed and integrated embedded software and communications systems for semi-autonomous robots that launch projectiles at opponents.

UBC Physics Circle

Facilitated physics enrichment workshops for over 30 high school students.

Gantry Robot Design

Developed a robot with a three axis gantry and mechanism to pick up objects.

Autonomous Robot Simulation

Using ROS and openCV environment, my partner Sean L. and I simulated a robot capable of driving, detecting pedestrians, and reading license plates with machine learning.

Maintained the AutoHeadFix device, an apparatus with modular mice brain imaging experiment capabilities, for UBC Brain Circuits group. I helped design mechanical and software components for laser alignment.

UBC UAS GCATS Station

Designed the ground communications mechanical structure as part of the UBC UAS design team. This station transmits FPS video to the drone pilot and points the yagi sensor to follow the drone. The system is light weight, modular, and expandable.

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