General remarks on the control literature and on the following references and recommended further reading are discussed in this chapter. Mainstream control literature and mainstream control books regarding control theory and control systems are also discussed.

Chapter Contents:

• 18.1 General remarks on the control literature and on the following references and recommended further reading
• 18.2 Finding books, papers, theses
• 18.2.1 Library books
• 18.3 Control-oriented software
• 18.4 Mainstream control literature
• 18.5 Older mainstream control books
• 18.6 Methodologies for economic justification of investment in automation
• 18.7 State estimation
• 18.8 Sliding mode control
• 18.9 Optimisation
• 18.10 Robust control
• 18.11 Neural networks and support vector methods
• 18.12 Fuzzy logic and fuzzy control
• 18.13 Genetic algorithm, genetic programming and other parallel evolutionary search methods
• 18.14 Intelligent and learning systems
• 18.15 Adaptive and model-based control
• 18.16 Stochastic aspects of control
• 18.17 Some other control topics
• 18.18 General mathematics references
• 18.19 Ordinary differential equations
• 18.20 Differential topology/differential geometry/differential algebra
• 18.21 Theory of equations
• 18.22 Operator theory and functional analysis applied to linear control
• 18.23 Books of historical interest
• 18.23.1 History of the Riccati equation
• 18.24 Miscellany
• 18.25 Useful tables
• 18.26 Alphabetical list of references and suggestions for further reading

Inspec keywords: control system analysis

Other keywords: control theory; mainstream control books; control systems; mainstream control literature

Subjects: Specific control systems; Control systems