Book Recommendations

This second edition builds a powerful bridge between robust and adaptive control, featuring Observer-Based Loop Transfer Recovery (OBLTR). It covers industry-relevant robust and optimal methods before advancing into Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) for multivariable systems. Its unique contribution unites OBLTR with stable adaptive control theory into a single framework. Packed with industrial aerospace examples and homework, this text is an essential guide for engineers and students tackling next-generation 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 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. 

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.

Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics, Fourth Edition  is a comprehensive guide featuring a novel tensor-based approach using Einstein's Principle of Covariance for robust, compact flight simulation code. It covers the systematic derivation of equations of motion alongside detailed modeling of aerodynamics, propulsion, and guidance systems for aircraft, missiles, and hypersonic vehicles. Supported by twelve open-source C++ simulations, problems, and practical projects, it serves as an ideal resource for advanced students and professionals. 

This text is a classic.  It provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to optimal control theory for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. It masterfully covers the three foundational pillars of the discipline: dynamic programming, Pontryagin's maximum principle, and numerical optimization techniques. By systematically walking through these concepts, the book equips readers with the mathematical foundation needed to model, analyze, and solve complex optimization problems across physical, engineering, social, and economic systems. 

 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.