Teaching

Prof. Bosanac teaches the following courses:

ASEN 5050: Spaceflight Dynamics

Introduction to astrodynamics for students with an interest in trajectory design and maneuver planning, mission orbit selection, orbital transfer design and rendezvous. Topics covered include: solutions to the two-body problem and their characteristics, perturbations, initial orbit determination, relative motion, orbital transfers, low-thrust trajectories, groundtracks, interplanetary trajectories. Students learn to use industry-standard astrodynamics software, choosing between: AGI's STK and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's GMAT.

ASEN 6060: Advanced Astrodynamics

This course focuses on the complex gravitational environment of multi-body systems, often approximated by the circular restricted three-body problem. This course covers the computation and characterization of space trajectories, computation of fundamental dynamical structures (e.g., equilibrium points, periodic orbits and hyperbolic invariant manifolds), stability analysis, applications of dynamical systems theory to visualizing and analyzing the solutions space and transfer design. Students also learn to ccreate trajectories in an ephemeris model of a multi-body system within industry-standard astrodynamics software, choosing between: Ansys's Satellite ToolKit (STK) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT).

ASEN 3200/3700: Orbit Mechanics / Attitude Dynamics and Control

Presents the fundamentals of orbital mechanics, 3D rigid body dynamics and satellite attitude dynamics and controls. Course consists of both lectures and labs: attitude dynamics labs consists of hands-on experiments conducted on hardware, and orbit mechanics labs involve using STK and Matlab for simulation of spacecraft motion in complex dynamical environments.

ASEN 3801: Aerospace Vehicles Dynamics and Controls Lab

Emphasizes applications of engineering dynamics and control principles for modeling, simulating, designing, analyzing, and evaluating aerospace vehicle systems. Experimental and computational focus on problems in aircraft flight stabilization and spacecraft attitude control.

ASEN 2003/2703: Introduction to Dynamics and Systems

Introduces the principles of particle and planar rigid body dynamics, systems, and controls. Topics include kinematics, kinetics, momentum and energy methods, system modeling, and simple feedback control.