Preface Part I: Short Design Course. Chapter 1: A Method for Solving System Design Problems Rational Functions The Closed Loop System S Designable Transfer Function A System Design Problem The Method Exercises Chapter 2: Internal Stability Control and Stability Interpolation Systems With a Stable Plant Exercises Chapter 3: Frequency Domain Performance Requirements Introduction Measures of Performance Piecing Together Disk Inequalities More Performance Measures A Fully Constrained Problem Chapter 4: Optimization Review of Concepts Generating a Performance Function Finding T With Best Performance Acceptable Performance Functions Performance Not of Circular Type Optimization Internal Stability and Optimization Exercises Chapter 5: A Design Example With OPTDesign Introduction The Problem Optimization With OPTDesign Producing a Rational Compensator How Good is the Answer? Optimality Diagnostics Specifying Compensator Roll-off Reducing the Numerical Error Rational Fits Exercises Part II: More on Design. Chapter 6: Examples Numerical Practicalities Design Example 1 Time Domain Performance Requirements Design Example 2 Performance for Competing Constraints Chapter 7: Internal Stability Calculating Interpolants Plants With Simple RHP Zeros and Poles Parameterization: The General Case Exercises References and Further Reading Part III: Appendices. Appendix A: History and Perspective Appendix B: Getting OPTDesign and Anopt Appendix C: Anopt Notebook Appendix D: NewtonInterpolant Notebook Appendix E: NewtonFit Notebook.

