Book Recommendations

Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics, Fourth Edition  offers a complete toolkit for building and programming advanced aerospace simulations. What sets this book apart is its novel use of tensors to model flight dynamics, a method grounded in Einstein's Principle of Covariance that results in more robust and compact code. It systematically derives the equations of motion and provides extensive details on modeling the aerodynamics, propulsion, and guidance systems for a wide range of vehicles, including aircraft, missiles, and hypersonic craft. For practical application, the text is supported by twelve open-source C++ simulations, numerous problems, and several projects, making it an ideal resource for advanced students or professionals looking for a comprehensive, hands-on guide to aerospace vehicle dynamics. 

This newly released second edition builds a powerful bridge between robust and adaptive control, including Observer-Based Loop Transfer Recovery (OBLTR). The book starts with a industry-relevant curated selection of robust and optimal control methods before pivoting toModel Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC), guiding the reader step-by-step from simple to complex multivariable systems. Its unique contribution is tying OBLTR with stable adaptive control theory, creating a single, powerful framework for designing robust and adaptive control systems. Packed with industrial aerospace topics and real-world aerospace challenges through examples and homework, this text is an essential guide for engineers and students seeking to solve the next generation of control problems. 

Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction, Volume 1 and Advanced Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Volume 2 is a comprehensive two-volume set that provides in-depth coverage of missile guidance principles and techniques. The set consists of 45 chapters, covering topics from introductory concepts to advanced applications. The two volumes together provide a comprehensive and authoritative resource for anyone interested in missile guidance technology. The set is suitable for both students and professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge and skills in this area.

This text belongs in the library of every control scientist and engineer. Don't take LQ methods just to mean controllers. LQ methods are approached with frequency domain analysis, state estimation, loop transfer recovery, asymptotic properties of tuning, control synthesis, and tracking systems. If you put a little work in to understand the theory, with this book you'll come away with methods that are highly relevant to modern aerospace control problems. 

This text is a comprehensive guide for aircraft modeling, simulation, and flight control. Chapter 1 contains everything needed to create a full oblate earth simulation. Chapter 2 enables you to create a vehicle model for simulation. Control topics include classical methods, multivariable frequency domain methods, dynamic inversion, adaptive control, and more. One of the outstanding strengths of this text is the F-16 simulation, which is added to throughout the text building upon your knowledge and ability model, control, and simulate this aircraft. 

 This graduate-level textbook comprehensively explores the stability of adaptive systems, providing a deep understanding of the global stability properties essential for designing adaptive systems. It presents a self-contained and unified perspective, connecting seemingly independent developments in the field. This book is crucial for anyone seeking to design or analyze adaptive systems and is recommended for graduate students and researchers in control systems, signal processing, and related fields. 

This book introduces state-space methods for practical control system design, bridging the gap between theory and application. It caters to both engineers seeking solutions and researchers seeking insights, covering topics like feedback control, dynamics, frequency analysis, and performance shaping. Advanced subjects like observers, compensator design, optimal control, and Kalman filters are explored, with concrete examples from aerospace, robotics, and more. 

This text is a classic. It covers three key aspects of optimal control theory for upper-level undergraduates: dynamic programming, Pontryagin's principle, and numerical optimization. It equips readers with the tools to maximize returns and minimize costs in physical, social, and economic systems.