AAReST

Information

Instructors:

Dr. Andrew T. Klesh
Email:  Andrew.T.Klesh@jpl.nasa.gov

Dr. Oscar Alvarez-Salazar
Email:  Oscar.S.Alvarez-Salazar@jpl.nasa.gov

Dr. Scott R. Ploen
Email:  Scott.R.Ploen@jpl.nasa.gov

Teaching Assistants:

Thibaud Talon
Office:  Guggenheim 148
Email:  ttalon@caltech.edu

Fabien Royer
Office:  Guggenheim 148
Email:  froyer@caltech.edu

Lectures:

Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 16:00 - 17:25
Location: 384 Firestone

Office hours:

Recitation / Office Hour
Time: Monday 4-5 pm
Location: 232 Guggenheim

Office Hour only
Time: Wednesday 1:15-2:15 pm
Location: 384 Firestone

Online ressources:

Moodle (Homeworks)
AAReST

Course Description

Ae 105 abc. Aerospace Engineering. 9 units (3-0-6); first, second, third terms. Prerequisites: APh 17 or ME 18 and ME 19 or equivalent.
Part a (1st term): Introduction to spacecraft systems and subsystems, mission design, fundamentals of orbital and rocket mechanics, launch vehicles and space environments; JPL-assisted design exercise; spacecraft mechanical, structural, and thermal design; numerical modeling, test validation.
Part b (2nd term): Introduction to guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), measurement systems, Kalman filtering, system analysis, simulation, statistical error analysis, case studies of JPL GNC applications; preliminary discussion and setup for team project leading to system requirements review.
Part c (3rd term): Team project leading to preliminary design review and critical design review.

Autonomous Assembly of a Reconfigurable Space Telescope (AAReST)

Link to the AAReST website
Link to the Ae105 involvement in the AAReST project

For the second half of the course, students collaborate with each other, along with GALCIT researchers on the AAReST mission. Several design areas are stressed with this project: spacecraft analysis and design, optics/telescope design and testing, composite boom testing, telescope software architecture, and electronics design. Students make significant contributions to these design areas, ultimately furthering the status of the mission as a whole.

Course syllabus and schedule (Ae105b)

Class Topic Homework/Exam
4 Jan Presentation of the class (Talon/Royer)
Orbital Mechanics - Two Body Problem I; First Integrals, Geometry of Elliptical Orbits
9 Jan Orbital Mechanics - Two Problem II; Finding r(t) and v(t) for Elliptical Orbits HW1 given
11 Jan Orbital Mechanics - Two Body Problem III; Classical Orbital Elements, Hohmann Transfer
16 Jan Attitude Kinematics and Rigid Body Dynamics - Parameterizations of SO(3); Euler Angles, Angle/Axis, Quaternions
18 Jan Attitude Kinematics and Rigid Body Dynamics - Angular Momentum, Inertia Tensor
23 Jan Attitude Kinematics and Rigid Body Dynamics - Newton-Euler Equations, Stability of Spinning Rigid Bodies HW1 due
HW2 given
25 Jan Control Theory - State Variable Analysis
30 Jan Control Theory - Transfer Function Analysis
1 Feb Control Theory - Stability of Feedback Systems I; Routh, Root-Locus
6 Feb Control Theory - Stability of Feedback Systems II; Bode, Nyquist
8 Feb Optimal Control and Estimation - Optimal Control I HW2 due
13 Feb Optimal Control and Estimation - Optimal Control II HW3 given
15 Feb Optimal Control and Estimation - Introduction to Optimal Estimation
20 Feb Team Projects Presentation by Mentors HW3 due
Final Exam given
22 Feb Team Meetings with Mentors
27 Feb Team Meetings with Mentors Final Exam due (11:59 PM)
1 Mar Presentation 1 by Teams in Group A
6 Mar Team Meetings with Mentors
8 Mar Presentation 1 by Teams in Group B
13 Mar Team Meetings with Mentors
15 Mar Final Presentations

Grading (Ae105b)

14% per homework/final
10% Team Presentation grade
10% Individual Presentation grade
10% Individual Mentor's grade

Homework Policy

Students are encouraged to discuss homework problems, strategies and may compare final results, but each one should write down their own solution.

Late homework within 24 hours will incur a penalty (30%), and won't be accepted after 24 hours delay. In case a deadline extension is needed, please send a request to the TAs.

Class Material

Lecture notes, supplement materials, homework and solutions are for personal use only. They should not be distributed without the consent of the instructors.

References (Ae105b)

  1. Bate, Mueller, White, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, Dover
  2. Schaub and Junkins, Analytical Mechanics of Space Systems, 3rd Edition, AIAA
  3. Wiesel, Spaceflight Dynamics, 3rd Edition, Aphelion
  4. Hughes, Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics, Dover
  5. Kirk, Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction, Dover
  6. Athans and Falb, Optimal Control, Dover
  7. Kane and Levinson, Dynamics: Theory and Applications, McGraw-Hill
  8. Wie, Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control, 2nd Edition, AIAA
  9. Prussing and Conway, Orbital Mechanics, 2nd Edition, Oxford
  10. Franklin, Powell, and Emami-Naeini, Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, 7th Edition, Pearson
  11. Hespanha, Linear Systems Theory, Princeton
  12. Gelb, Applied Optimal Estimation, MIT Press
  13. Maybeck, Stochastic Models, Estimation, and Control, Volume 1, Academic Press
  14. Lewis, Optimal Estimation, Wiley
  15. Pontryagin et. al., The Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes, Interscience
  16. Thomson, Introduction to Space Dynamics, Dover
  17. Kaplan, Modern Spacecraft Dynamics and Control, Wiley
  18. Wertz (Editor), Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control
  19. Vallado, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications, 4th Edition
  20. Simon, Optimal State Estimation, Wiley
  21. DeRuiter, Damaren, and Forbes, Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: An Introduction, Wiley
  22. Markley and Crassidis, Fundamentals of Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Springer
  23. Wiesel, Modern Orbital Determination, Aphelion
  24. Greenwood, Principles of Dynamics, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall
  25. Cohen, The Birth of a New Physics (Revised and Updated), Norton
  26. Curtis, Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students, 3rd Edition