Hi, I’m Vincent Soubbotin
I’m a fourth-year mechanical engineering major studying at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, also minoring in Robotics and Aerospace Engineering. As of now, I am expected to graduate in December 2025.
Since I was a child I’ve been interested in engineering and understanding how things worked, and I loved to build things like legos and take things apart. I started out in middle/high school with FRC robotics, where I taught myself CAD design as well as the basics of manual maching, which allowed me to help advance our team’s capabilites in the later years of my involvment.
After graduation, I’m looking to work somewhere in the fields of robotics or aerospace.
At Northeastern, I’ve been part of the Mars Rover Team, as well as the AerospaceNU club. As part of Rover, I have designed several major projects and contributed to many others, including two version of our 6 degree of freedom robotic arm, its end effector and wrist, new custom wheels and hubs, battery and electronics mounts, and more. I am currently working on my capstone project for Rover, which is a four-wheel swerve and adjustable suspension system. In AeroNU, my most signifigant project was the Carby V3 High Power Rocket, which flew once before catastrophic failure, but featured a novel 3D printed airframe and machined metal fincan. In addition I have since 2022, and plan to continue to mentor my former FRC Robotics Team 3623, to help teach and do design.
My first co-op experience at Northeastern was at Formlabs, at which I primarily worked to design meaurement and assembly fixtures for Formlabs Form 4 LCD modules, tanks, and optical modules. These fixtures utilized pneumatic and/or hand actuation, and were constructed using almost exclusively in-house resouces, such as waterjetting, 3D printing, lasercutting, and manual machining, to minimize lead times and cost. In addition, I designed and prototyped a thermoformed tank lid using a 3D printed mold, a design derived from which is currently in production.
My second co-op experience was at Amazon Robotics in North Reading, MA, in the role of hardware engineering. During my time there, I created and compared kinematic concepts for a low-cost, scaleable robotics system, including the creation of URDF simulation models and basic mockup representations to ascess range of motion, collisions, and other functionality. In addition, I proposed and prototyped some variatrions of end effectors for the aforementioned system, to balance complexity with cost and functionality, and created a self-contained pneumatic control system for suction and blow-off. Lastly, I did two projects to retrofit existing off-the-shelf products to better suit our purposes, including integrating a lightweight brushless motor onto a heavy vacuum pump, signifigantly reducing its weight, as well as implementing open-source Moteus motor controllers onto existing planetary actuators to allow their use in future project prototypes.
Outside of academic pursuits, I am an avid road cyclist and occasional runner, transit enthusiast, hobby photographer, and generally very technically oriented person.
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