MECH&AE C171B · MAE C171BDigital Control and Learning of Physical Systems
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Formerly numbered 171B.) Topics include Z-transforms, digital control system analysis, discrete-time system modeling of continuous-time systems, model-based pole placement methods (root locus, state feedback, full-order state observer feedback), data-based adaptive learning methods (adaptive finite impulse response filters, least mean squares steepest decent learning, adaptive identification, feedforward, and disturbance rejection control), and digital control practice by simulation and real-time control experiment. Concurrently scheduled with course C274.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
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 171A or Electrical and Computer Engineering 141.
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MECH&AE C171B
- 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
- EC ENGR 141Principles of Feedback Control
- EC ENGR 102Systems and Signals
2 direct requisites. Showing 9 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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