ASE3001: Computation lab.

Course Info.

Course descriptions

• This course covers elementary computational techniques for solving mathematical problems in aerospace engineering and other engineering disciplines. Students will use high level programming languages to formulate, interpret and analyze practical real-world problems encountered at a wide variety of engineering disciplines. Covered topics include but not limited to differential equations, linear algebra, probability, Fourier transform, introductory machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Instructors

• Instructor: Prof. Jong-Han Kim (Rm.507)

• Head TA: Jiwoo Choi (Rm.502)

• TA: Seungyeop Lee (Rm.502)

• TA: Hyoung Do Choi (Rm.502)

• TA: Eunbyeol Cho (Rm.502)

Lectures

• Mon 14:30-17:30 (Rm.217)

Office hours

• JHK: Tue/Thr 16:00-17:30 (Rm.507), or by appointments.

• TAs: By appointments.

Prerequisites

• Previous exposure to programming languages (Python or others).

Reference textbooks

• There are no required textbooks.

Grading policy

• Final exam (40%)

• Midterm exam (30%)

• Homework assignments and class participation (30%)

Lecture notes

The link directs to the associated Jupyter notebook, which opens on Google Colaboratory when the “Open in Colab” button is clicked.

1. A very short Python review

2. Numpy module

3. Matplotlib module

4. Pandas module (Files: kfxsim.csv)

5. Differential equations and dynamical systems

6. Monte-Carlo methods

7. Discrete Fourier transform

8. Bayesian inference

9. Signal processing

10. Optimization

11. Control design

12. Rocket guidance

13. Image processing

14. Supervised learning

15. Unsupervised learning

16. Other high level languages (Polynomial fit in python, in julia(.html/.ipynb), in matlab, and the data file fit_data.csv)

Assignments

Assignments will be up with the lab session, during which the students start to work on them. Completed works should be turned in by next week's lecture to the course TAs.

1. An eigenvalue algorithm (due 9/16)

2. Google PageRank (due 9/23)

3. Rocket trajectories (due 9/30)

4. Impact distribution (due 10/7)

5. No surprises (due 10/14)

6. Mobile phone localization (due 10/21)

7. State estimation and filtering (due 10/28)

8. Optimal planetary landing (due 11/11)

9. Segway control (rev) (due 11/18)

10. Proportional navigation in 3D space (due 11/25)

Exams

1. Midterm exam (2020 Autumn) (solution)

2. Final exam (2020 Autumn)