Control and Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Aerospace Systems

MAE 265A Control and Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Aerospace Systems.

Prof.

Lopez Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours.

Requisite: course 171A.

Introduction to autonomous aerospace systems with focus on dynamics, control, and motion planning.

Topics include rigid body motion and rotation representations, Lyapunov stability theory, nonlinear feedback control, and numerical trajectory planning.

Letter grading.