Classic Papers in Control Theory

Dover Publications 

Beschreibung

This collection of historically and technically important papers follows a logical line of development from early work in mathematical control theory to studies in adaptive control processes. The book touches upon all the major themes: stability theory, feedback control, time lag, prediction theory, dynamic programming, "e;bang-bang"e; control, and maximum principles. The book opens with J. C. Maxwell's "e;On Governors"e; and continues with "e;The Control of an Elastic Fluid"e; by H. Bateman; an essay by editors Bellman and Kalaba, "e;The Work of Lyapunov and Poincaré"e;; Hurwitz's "e;On the Conditions Under Which an Equation Has Only Roots With Negative Real Parts"e;; Nyquist's "e;Regeneration Theory"e;; "e;Feedback — The History of an Idea"e; by H. W. Bode; a paper on forced oscillations in a circuit by B. van der Pol; "e;Self-excited Oscillations in Dynamical Systems Possessing Retarded Action"e; by N. Minorsky; "e;An Extension of Wiener's Theory of Prediction"e; by Zadeh and Ragazzini; "e;Time Optimal Control Systems"e; by J. P. LaSalle; "e;On the Theory of Optimal Processes"e; by Boltyanskii, Gamkrelidze, and Pontryagin; Bellman's "e;On the Application of the Theory of Dynamic Programming to the Study of Control Processes"e;; and the editors' study "e;Dynamic Programming and Adaptive Processes: Mathematical Foundation."e; Each paper is introduced with a brief account of its significance and with some suggestions for further reading.

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