AE 654
Geometric Mechanics and Control of Rigid Body Motions

Course Overview

This course covers the fundamentals of groups, fields, and vector spaces; fundamentals of differential geometry including Lie groups (and their tangent bundles), Lie algebras, and the exponential map; Review of classical mechanics (Newtonian and Eulerian); Introduction to dynamic modeling formulation in geometric mechanic framework accounting for translation-rotation couplings in body motions; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian developments of variational integrator to preserve system geometric properties; Fundamentals of Lyapunov-based geometric theory of nonlinear control and Morse- Lyapunov stability analysis of the rigid body motions; Applications to formation flight, consensus of rigid bodies, multiple-DOF systems, etc.

Course Details

Class Time: TR 2:15-3:30pm
Location: COAS 406
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:45pm-4:45pm,
                      Fridays 4pm-5pm (and by appointment)
Textbook: A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation
                ISBN:9781351469784
                Authors: Richard M. Murray, Zexiang Li, and Shankar Sastry
                Publisher: CRC Press
                Publication Date: 2017-12-14
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