MECH&AE C163B · MAE C163BDynamics of Robotic Systems
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Dynamics models of serial and parallel robotic manipulators, including review of spatial descriptions and transformations along with direct and inverse kinematics, linear and angular velocities, Jacobian matrix (velocity and force), velocity propagation method, force propagation method, explicit formulation of Jacobian matrix, manipulator dynamics (Newton/Euler formulation, Lagrangian formulation), trajectory generation, introduction to parallel manipulators. Concurrently scheduled with course C263B.
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
Enforced requisite: course C163A.
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MECH&AE C163B
- MECH&AE C163AKinematics of Robotic Systems
- MECH&AE 155Intermediate Dynamics
- MECH&AE 171AIntroduction to Feedback and Control Systems: Dynamic Systems Control I
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MECH&AE C163B
- MECH&AE C163CControl of Robotic Systems
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.