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University of California,
Irvine
Professor Kenneth D. Mease
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BIO
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Kenneth D. Mease serves as Professor of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of
California, Irvine. He received his B.S. from the University
of Michigan and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of
Southern California. He began his career at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory as a Member of the Technical Staff of the Navigation
Systems Section. He then served as Assistant Professor of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University,
before joining the faculty of UC Irvine. His research has
contributed to the guidance, navigation and control of aircraft
and spacecraft, time-scale analysis for nonlinear dynamical
systems, and molecular control, and has been sponsored by
NASA, the Jet Propulsion Lab, NSF, McDonnell Douglas Corporation,
Rockwell International Corporation, and Boeing. He has also
consulted and had contracts with Universal Space Lines,
Optimal Synthesis and Guided Systems Technologies. He has
served as Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal of Guidance,
Control, and Dynamics and the AAS Journal of the Astronautical
Sciences. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and a Member
of SIAM and the SAE Control and Guidance Systems Committee.
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Courses
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175 |
Dynamics
and Control of Aerospace Vehicles
Equations of motion, linearization, stability derivatives,
and longitudinal and lateral modes of motion. Handling qualities,
sensors and actuators, and effects of various feedbacks on
stability and performance. Command and stability augmentation
system design. |
MAE
200A |
Engineering Analysis
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Linear algebra, including vector spaces, matrices, linear
system of equations, and the eigenvalue problem. Scalar and
vector field theory. Calculus of variations and optimization.
Notions of stability for linear and nonlinear differential
equations. |
| MAE
241 |
Dynamics
Kinematics and dynamics of three-dimensional motions. Lagrange's
equations, Newton-Euler equations. Applications include robot
systems and spinning satellites. |
| MAE
274 |
Optimal
Control
Introduction to the principles and methods of optimal control.
Topics include: objectives and issues in controlling nonlinear
systems; linear variational and adjoint equations; optimality
conditions via variational calculus, maximum principle, and
dynamic programming; solution methods; applications to control
of robots and aerospace vehicles. |
| MAE
276 |
Geometric
Nonlinear Control
Introduction to application of differential geometry
in analysis and design of nonlinear control systems. Topics
include stable, center, and unstable manifolds of an equilibrium
state, nonlinear systems theory, and feedback linearization. |
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 Flight Dynamics and Control
Lab
University Of California, Irvine
To contact Professor
Mease: kmease@uci.edu |