This is a class in the Robotics program at University of Michigan, which has a long and deep history in control theory and related topics. The detail you're mis

This is a class in the Robotics program at University of Michigan, which has a long and deep history in control theory and related topics. The detail you're missing is that the control theory classes are for both Robotics students and general EE's, ME's, Aerospace Engineers, etc, so they're not going to get combined with this. The thing this lets people avoid is the EE linear systems theory class, which broadly covers the same topics, probably along with the EE intro to probability class, since that's more for full on signal processing or stochastic control. It fits in nicely with the other curriculum components, just not as a general purpose math for robotics for a non-program student.