MECH&AE 265A · MAE 265AAutonomous Aerospace Systems: Planning and Control
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to autonomous aerospace systems with a focus on dynamics, planning, and control. Topics include nonlinear flight mechanics, numerical trajectory design, and nonlinear stability theory and feedback controller design.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Summer 2026
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 171A.
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MECH&AE 265A
- MECH&AE 171AIntroduction to Feedback and Control Systems: Dynamic Systems Control I
- MECH&AE 107Introduction to Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
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