Alex Fraley
Aerospace engineer working across robotics, UAS testing, simulation, and technical analysis.
I work on engineering problems that need more than theory alone: system evaluation, flight-related analysis, simulation, experimental workflows, and technical work tied to real operating constraints.
What I Do
My background combines aerospace engineering, robotics, and applied technical work. I am especially interested in systems that need to be tested carefully, understood clearly, and made useful outside ideal conditions.
That has led me toward drone and robot evaluation, simulation, controls, experimental analysis, and engineering workflows that connect models, hardware, and real performance.
Focus Areas
Robot & UAS Testing
Test methods, evaluation workflows, scoring, and performance measurement for drones and robotic systems.
Simulation & Autonomy
Navigation logic, embedded workflows, model-based analysis, and practical simulation tools.
Aerospace Systems Analysis
Flight controls, CAD, experimental methods, and engineering work that connects models to real behavior.
Featured Projects
Selected work that reflects my technical direction.
NIST UAS and Robot Test Development
Contributed to test methods, scoring workflows, apparatus design, and validation activities for emergency-response robot and UAS evaluation.
TERPS Lunar Rover Capstone
Worked on rover navigation, landing-site evaluation, and systems trade studies for a NASA-affiliated lunar mission concept.
HL-20 Control Law Design
Built and evaluated a longitudinal control-law workflow using frequency-response analysis, transfer-function fitting, and Simulink modeling.
My writing includes
Conference Papers ∗ Technical Reports ∗ Project Documentation ∗ Formal Engineering Analysis
Additional technical writing across controls, hypersonics, structures, and robotics-related testing.
Adapting NIST Aerial Drone Tests for Thermal Identification, Inspection, and Suppression of Wildfires
Explore the Work
This site is a selected portfolio of engineering work in robotics, UAS, simulation, and aerospace systems.