part 1 PART I: THREE TERM CONTROLLERS -- chapter 1 PID CONTROLLERS: AN OVERVIEW OF CLASSICAL THEORY -- chapter 2 PID CONTROLLERS FOR DELAY-FREE LTI SYSTEMS -- chapter 3 PID CONTROLLERS FOR SYSTEMS WITH TIME DELAY -- chapter 4 DIGITAL PID CONTROLLER DESIGN -- chapter 5 FIRST ORDER CONTROLLERS FOR LTI SYSTEMS -- chapter 6 CONTROLLER SYNTHESIS FREE OF ANALYTICAL MODELS -- chapter 7 DATA DRIVEN SYNTHESIS OF THREE TERM DIGITAL CONTROLLERS -- part 2 PART II: ROBUST PARAMETRIC CONTROL -- chapter 8 STABILITY THEORY FOR POLYNOMIALS -- chapter 9 STABILITY OF A LINE SEGMENT -- chapter 10 STABILITY MARGIN COMPUTATION -- chapter 11 STABILITY OF A POLYTOPE -- chapter 12 ROBUST CONTROL DESIGN -- part 3 PART III: OPTIMAL AND ROBUST CONTROL -- chapter 13 THE LINEAR QUADRATIC REGULATOR -- chapter 14 SISO H? AND l1 OPTIMAL CONTROL -- chapter 15 H? OPTIMAL MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL -- chapter A SIGNAL SPACES -- chapter B NORMS FOR LINEAR SYSTEMS -- part 4 PART IV: EPILOGUE -- chapter ROBUSTNESS AND FRAGILITY.