AE 598

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in aerospace engineering intended to augment existing formal courses. Topics and prerequisites vary for each section. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for both.

May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary to a maximum of 12 hours.

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AE 598 class schedule data for fall 2026
	Status		CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
			70952	Online	SRO	ARRANGED	n.a.	n.a.	Wijayatunga, M	Availability: Open (Restricted) Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/26-12/09/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Spacecraft Rendezvous Section Info: Topic: Spacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations. This course provides a comprehensive treatment of spacecraft rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking (RPO), with a primary emphasis on autonomous trajectory design and guidance, navigation, and control (GNC). Students develop a rigorous understanding of relative motion dynamics, rendezvous and proximity trajectory design, and closed-loop guidance and navigation under realistic constraints in sensing, actuation, and operational implementation. Classical impulsive and low-thrust rendezvous methods are integrated with contemporary optimization-based guidance and safety-critical constraint enforcement. The course also introduces enabling autonomy topics that increasingly shape modern RPO systems, including perception-driven proximity operations, robotic capture and grasping in microgravity, teleoperations, and verification and validation of RPO. Prerequisites: AE 402, AE 353 (or equivalent), AE 454 (or equivalent), AE 485 (optional), and familiarity with a programming language (Python, Matlab, etc.). Restricted to online graduate non-degree, online MCS, online MSME, online MSCEE, and online MSAE students. For more details on this course section, please see http://engineering.illinois.edu/online/courses/. Non-degree students may enroll on a space-available basis with consent of the Graduate Program Coordinator (ae-grad@illinois.edu). Restriction(s): Restricted to MS: Civil Engr - Online - UIUC, MS:Industrial Engr Online-UIUC, MS:Mechanical Engineerng -UIUC, MS:Env Engr CivilEngr ONL-UIUC, NDEG:Engineering GR ONL - UIUC, MS: Aerospace Engr-Online-UIUC, MENG:Engr:Energy Sys Onl-UIUC, MENG:Mech Engineering Onl-UIUC, MENG:Elec & Comp Eng ONL -UIUC, MENG:Engr:AeroSys Online- UIUC, MENG:ENGR:Digital Ag ONL- UIUC, or MENG:Engr:ChemEngLead ONL-UIUC.
			49969	Lecture-Discussion	SRP	1:30PM -2:50PM	TR	11 Psychology Building	Wijayatunga, M	Availability: Open Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/26-12/09/26 Section Title: Spacecraft Rendezvous Section Info: Topic: Spacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations. This course provides a comprehensive treatment of spacecraft rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking (RPO), with a primary emphasis on autonomous trajectory design and guidance, navigation, and control (GNC). Students develop a rigorous understanding of relative motion dynamics, rendezvous and proximity trajectory design, and closed-loop guidance and navigation under realistic constraints in sensing, actuation, and operational implementation. Classical impulsive and low-thrust rendezvous methods are integrated with contemporary optimization-based guidance and safety-critical constraint enforcement. The course also introduces enabling autonomy topics that increasingly shape modern RPO systems, including perception-driven proximity operations, robotic capture and grasping in microgravity, teleoperations, and verification and validation of RPO. Prerequisites: AE 402, AE 353 (or equivalent), AE 454 (or equivalent), AE 485 (optional), and familiarity with a programming language (Python, Matlab, etc.).