Control Theory: Twenty-Five Seminal Papers (1932-1981) (Hardcover)

Preface.Regeneration Theory (H. Nyquist).Stabilized Fredback Amplifiers (H. Black).Relations Between Attenuation and Phase in Feedback Amplifier Design (H. Bode).The Linear Filter for a Single Time Series (N. Wiener).Control of System Synthesis by Root Locus Method (W. Evans).The Structure of Dynamic Programming Processes (R. Bellman).Optimal Regulation Processes (L. Pontryagin).Contributions to the Theory of Optimal Control (R. Kalman).A New Approach to Linear Filtering and Prediction Problems (R. Kalman).Dual Control Theory, Parts I and II (A. Feldbaum).Absolute Stability of Nonlinear Systems of Automatic Control (V. Popov).A Steepest-Ascent Method for Solving Optimum Programming Problems (A. Bryson).The Solution of Certain Matrix Inequalities in Automatic Control Theory (V. Yakubovich).Mathematical Description of Linear Dynamical Systems (R. Kalman).On the Input-Output Stability of Time-Varying Nonlinear Feedback Systems--Part I: Conditions Derived Using Concepts of Loop Gain, Conicity, and Positivity; Part II: Conditions Involving Circles in the Frequency Plane and Sector Nonlinearities (G. Zames).An Invariance Principle in the Theoryof Stability (J. Lasalle).Decoupling and Pole Assignment in Linear Multivariable Systems: A Geometric Approach (W. Wonham).