Series Editors’ Foreword
The topics of cont rol engineering and signal processing continue to flourish and
develop. In common with gener al scientific investigation, new ideas, concepts, and
interpretations emerge quite spontaneously, and these are then discussed, used,
discarded, or subsumed into the prevailing subject paradigm. Sometimes, these
innovative concepts coalesce into a new subdiscipl ine within the broad subject
tapestry of control and signal processing. This preliminary battle between old and
new usually takes place at conferences, through the Internet and in the journals of
the discipline. After a little more maturity has been acquired by the new concepts,
then archival publication as a scientific or engineering monograph may occur.
A new concept in control and signal processing is known to have arrived when
sufficient material has evolved for the topic to be taught as a specialized tutorial
workshop or as a course to undergraduate, graduate, or industrial engineers.
Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing is designed as a vehicle
for the systematic presentation of course material for both popular and innovative
topics in the discipline. It is hoped that prospective authors will welcome
the opportunity to publish a structured and systematic presentation of some of the
newer emerging control and signal processing technologies in the textbook series.
An aim of the Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing series is to
create a library that covers all the main subjects to be found in the control and signal
processing fields. It is a growing but select series of high-quality books that now
covers some fundamental topics and many more advanced topics in these areas.
We are therefore very fortunate to have this textbook from Eugene Lavretsky and
Kevin Wise on Robust and Adaptive Control with Aerospace Applications enter
the series. In many ways, this textbook is a departure for the series since it deals
with the fundamental topics of robust and adaptive control and has very strong
material from the aerospace applications field. Thus, it is possible to see clearly how
the stringent perf ormance requirements of the applications motivate and are met
by the control theory developments. From the aerospace control applications, the
reader will appreciate the industrial context where aircraft operates across a wide
range of flight conditions, giving rise to many design points. The aerospace industry
solves this problem by using many strategically selected control design points
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