Intro -- Series Editor's Foreword to the Second Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part IRobust Control -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Why Robust and Adaptive Control? -- 1.2 About This Book -- 1.3 Aircraft Flight Dynamics Equations of Motion -- 1.4 High-Fidelity Flight Simulation Environment -- 1.5 Simplified Flight Dynamics for Control Design -- 1.6 Summary -- 1.7 Exercises -- References -- 2 Linear Time-Invariant Systems and Control -- 2.1 Model-Based Control Engineering -- 2.2 Control System Design Goals and Objectives -- 2.3 Feedback and Feedforward Control -- 2.4 State-Space Systems -- 2.4.1 Time and Frequency Domain Modeling of State-Space Systems -- 2.4.2 Control-Oriented Models for Linear Time-Invariant Systems -- 2.4.3 State-Space Similarity Transformations -- 2.4.4 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors -- 2.4.5 Computing the State Transition Matrix -- 2.5 Stability, Controllability, and Observability -- 2.5.1 Stability of LTI Systems -- 2.5.2 Controllability of LTI Systems -- 2.5.3 Observability of LTI Systems -- 2.6 Norms of Vectors and Matrices in Euclidean Spaces -- 2.7 Summary -- 2.8 Exercises -- References -- 3 Frequency Domain Analysis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Transfer Functions and Transfer Function Matrices -- 3.3 Multivariable Stability Margins -- 3.3.1 Singular Values -- 3.3.2 Multivariable Nyquist Theory -- 3.3.3 Singular Value-Based Stability Margins for MIMO Systems -- 3.4 Control System Robustness Analysis -- 3.4.1 Analysis Models for Uncertain Systems -- 3.4.2 Singular Value Robustness Tests |