MECH&AE 270B · MAE 270BLinear Optimal Control
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Existence and uniqueness of solutions to linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems for continuous-time and discrete-time systems, finite-time and infinite-time problems; Hamiltonian systems and optimal control; algebraic and differential Riccati equations; implications of controllability, stabilizability, observability, and detectability solutions.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
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 M270A or Electrical Engineering M240A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.90 · from text- · "EC ENGR M240A" is not in this catalog version
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 270B
- MECH&AE M270ALinear Dynamic Systems
- MECH&AE 171AIntroduction to Feedback and Control Systems: Dynamic Systems Control I
- EC ENGR 141Principles of Feedback Control
1 direct requisite. Showing 5 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MECH&AE 270B
- MECH&AE M270COptimal Control
- CH ENGR M280COptimal Control
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.