Braxton Herold

About

Student aerospace engineer. Controls, embedded systems, and hardware that gets tested for real.

About Me

I build and test closed-loop control systems on real model aerospace hardware. My work centers on thrust vector control rockets, where I integrate mechanical systems, embedded electronics, and control algorithms into one flight system.

Across 30+ launches, I use failure-driven iteration to refine controller stability, structural design, and recovery systems. I build systems that can be rapidly tested, analyzed, and improved.

The same thinking carries into industrial hardware. During an engineering internship at Devonics Automation I built a 6-DOF haptic master arm that teleoperates a Fairino FR3 collaborative robot by feel, and wrote part of that robot's collision avoidance as a virtual ground plane, derived from the same landing-burn kinematics I use on the rocket.

Core Stack

Control Theory Kalman filtering Simulink Data Analysis Python Java Arduino Onshape Certified Onshape Associate CAD/CAM Autodesk Fusion 360 Autodesk CFD Eagle PCB EasyEDA Aerospace