MECH&AE C163A · MAE C163AKinematics of Robotic Systems
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Kinematical models of serial robotic manipulators, including spatial descriptions and transformations (Euler angles, Denavit-Hartenberg/DH parameters, equivalent angle vector), frame assignment procedure, direct kinematics, inverse kinematics (geometric and algebraic approaches), mechanical design topics. Concurrently scheduled with course C263A.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- 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
Recommended requisites: courses 155, 171A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE C163A
- MECH&AE 155Intermediate Dynamics
- MECH&AE 102Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
- MECH&AE 171AIntroduction to Feedback and Control Systems: Dynamic Systems Control I
- MECH&AE 107Introduction to Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
2 direct requisites. Showing 10 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MECH&AE C163A
- MECH&AE C163BDynamics of Robotic Systems
- MECH&AE C163CControl of Robotic Systems
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.