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• Control theory
• Nonlinear theories

• Effects of certain control-system nonlinearities on stability and pointing of an attached double-gimbal experiment package in presence of random crew-motion disturbances / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1973), by J. D. Shaughnessy, Vilas D. Nene, Nelson J. Groom, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Application and flight test of linearizing transformations using measurement feedback to the nonlinear control problem / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Program, 1991), by Robert F. Antoniewicz, Eugene L. Duke, P. K. A. Menon, and Dryden Flight Research Facility (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the libration of a gravity gradient stabilized spacecraft in an eccentric orbit / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, VA : For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, 1970), by Albert J. Fleig, Goddard Space Flight Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A method for analyzing nonlinear closed-loop control systems with stationary stochastic inputs / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, [1963]), by Wilfred J. Minkus and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Measured human transfer functions in simulated single-degree-of-freedom nonlinear control systems / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration : For sale by the Office of Technical Services, Dept. of Commerce, [1965]), by Hugh P. Bergeron, James J. Adams, Joseph King Kincaid, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Optimum nonlinear control of a second order nonlinear system / (Washington : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, [1961]), by Rufus Oldenburger, E. H. Gamble, John C. Nicklas, and Purdue University (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Lecture Notes on Optimization (electronic edition of "Notes on Optimization", 1998), by Pravin Pratap Varaiya (PDF at Berkeley)
• Unsolved Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory (with problem solutions submitted since first publication in 2004), ed. by Vincent Blondel and Alexandre Megretski (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
• Control in an Information Rich World: Report of the Panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems (2002), ed. by Richard M. Murray (PDF files at Caltech)
• Fuzzy Control (c1998), by Kevin M. Passino and Stephen Yurkovich (PDF at Ohio State)
• System description and design architecture for multiple autonomous undersea vehicles / (Gaithersburg, MD : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology ; [Springfield, VA. : Order from National Technical Information Service], 1988), by James Sacra Albus and National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stability of multirate sampled-data systems / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1975]), by David P. Stanford, Alper K. Caglayan, Langley Research Center, and College of William and Mary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fourth NASA Inter-Center Control Systems Conference ... / ([Washington] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ; Springfield, Va. : for sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1978), by Mass) NASA Inter-center Control Systems Conference (4th : 1969 : Boston and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Design of control laws for flutter suppression based on the aerodynamic energy concept and comparisons with other design methods / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division ; Springfield, VA : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1990), by E. Nissim and Dryden Flight Research Facility (page images at HathiTrust)
• Davidon-Broyden rank-one minimization methods in Hilbert space with application to optimal control problems / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1972), by Terry A. Straeter and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rocket booster control : penalty functions and bounded phase coordinate control / (Washington, D.C. : NASA, [1964]), by D. L. Russell, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Applications of the theory of optimal control of distributed-parameter systems to structural optimization / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1972), by Jean-Louis Pierre Armand, Langley Research Center, and Stanford University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Integrated tools for control-system analysis / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1989), by Aaron J. Ostroff, David R. Clark, and Melissa S. Proffitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modal control of an oblique wing aircraft / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1989), by James D. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rocket booster control : time optimal control with amplitude and rate limited controls / (Washington, D.C. : NASA, 1964), by W. W. Schmaedeke, D. L. Russell, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rocket booster control : Control of plants whose representation contains derivatives of the control variables / (Washington, D.C. : NASA, 1964), by W. W. Schmaedeke, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rocket booster control : a sufficient condition in optimal control / (Washington, D.C. : NASA, 1964), by E. B. Lee, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Identification and control of a flexible launch vehicle / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, 1966), by Rob Roy, K. W. Jenkins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamental limitations on V/STOL terminal guidance due to aircraft characteristics / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service [distributor], 1971), by Julian Wolkovitch, D. William Lochtie, Charles W. LaMont, Lewis Research Center, and inc Mechanics Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• An innovative approach to compensator design / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1973), by Jerrel R. Mitchell, Willie L. McDaniel, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, and Mississippi State University (page images at HathiTrust)
• A theory for the optimal deterministic characterization of the time-varying dynamics of the human operator / (Washington, D.C. : NASA, [1965]), by Walter W. Wierwille, Gilbert A. Gagne, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power-spectral-density relationship for retarded differential equations / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1974), by L. Keith Barker and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation, development, and application of optimal output feedback theory. (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1987), by John R. Broussard and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• On linear optimal control problems with multiple quadratic criteria / (Urbana-Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Commerce and Business Administration, 1972), by Ronald J. Stern and Adi Ben-Israel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Automated decision making and problem solving / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1981), by Ewald Heer, Langley Research Center, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch, and Conference on Automated Decision Making and Problem Solving (1980 : Langley Research Center) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Large-scale dynamic systems : the proceedings of the Utah State University--Ames Research Center Seminar Workshop on Large-Scale Dynamic Systems, held at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, August 12-16, 1974 / (Washington : Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : for sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1975), by Utah State University--Ames Research Center Seminar Workshop on Large-Scale Dynamic Systems (1974), Ames Research Center, and Utah State University (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theory and application of linear optimal control (Buffalo, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, 1965), by E. G. Rynaski and Richard F. Whitbeck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalog of functions for computer-based traffic signal systems. (McLean, Va. : U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Research, Development, and Technology ; Springfield, Va. : National Technical Information Service [distributor, 1985]), by E. Christenson, United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety and Traffic Operations Research and Development, and Inc Sigmatek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Linearized aerodynamic and control law models of the X-29A airplane and comparison with flight data / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Program, 1992), by John T. Bosworth and Dryden Flight Research Facility (page images at HathiTrust)
• Applied Routh approximation / ([Washington] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Service ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1978), by Walter C. Merrill, Lewis Research Center, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modal control theory and application to aircraft lateral handling qualities design / ([Washington] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1978), by S. Srinathkumar, Langley Research Center, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Singular perturbations and time scales in the design of digital flight control systems / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1988), by D. S. Naidu, Douglas B. Price, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effects of model error on control of large flexible space antenna with comparisons of decoupled and linear quadratic regulator control procedures / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1986), by Harold A. Hamer, Katherine G. Johnson, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• A method to stabilize linear systems using Eigenvalue gradient information / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1985), by Carol D. Wieseman and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• AESOP : an interactive computer program for the design of linear quadratic regulators and Kalman filters / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1984), by Bruce Lehtinen, Lucille C. Geyser, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Method for obtaining reduced-order control laws for high-order systems using optimization techniques / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1981), by Vivek Mukhopadhyay, Irving Abel, Jerry R. Newsom, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• An application of multivariable design techniques to the control of the National Transonic Facility / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1981), by Ernest S. Armstrong, John S. Tripp, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern sampled-data control theory : design of the large space telescope / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by National Technical Information Service], 1974), by Benjamin C. Kuo, G. Singh, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, and Systems Research Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Optimal singular control with applications to trajectory optimization / ([Washington] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Office ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1979), by Nguyen X. Vinh, University of Michigan, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• A methodology for computing uncertainty bounds of multivariable systems based on sector stability theory concepts / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Program, 1992), by Martin R. Waszak and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the formulation of a minimal uncertainty model for robust control with structured uncertainty / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Program ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1991), by Christine M. Belcastro, Robert Fischl, B. -C. Chang, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decoupled-control analysis of a large flexible space antenna with linear quadratic regulator comparisons / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch : [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1984), by John W. Young, Katherine G. Johnson, Harold A. Hamer, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The analysis and design of continuous and sampled-data feedback control systems with a saturation type nonlinearity / (Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by Stanley Francis Schmidt and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• An algorithm for the weighting matrices in the sample-data optimal linear regulator problem / (Washington : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1976), by Ernest S. Armstrong, Alper K. Caglayan, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonlinear programming and optimal control, (Springfield, Va., For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, [1966]), by P. P. Varaiya, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Berkeley University of California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The design of linear multivariable control systems using modern control theory (With applications to coupled core reactor control) ([Washington] National Aeronautics and Space Administration., [cover 1969]), by Charles R. Slivinsky, Lynn E. Weaver, Donald G. Schultz, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and University of Arizona (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some optimal branched trajectories / (Redondo Beach, Calif. : TRW Systems Group ; Springfield, Va. : for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, 1969), by Joseph D. Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Engineering aspects of control system design via the "direct method" of Liapunov. ([Washington] National Aeronautics and Space Administration; for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va., [1966]), by Richard Vito Monopoli and University of Connecticut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A new method for treating optimal trajectories with restricted segments / (Tucson : University of Arizona ; Springfield, Va. : for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, 1967), by Thomas L. Vincent and Joseph D. Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Optimal control in bounded phase space ([New York] New York University, College of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, [1961]), by Sheldon S. L. Chang (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the necessary condition for optimal control of nonlinear systems. (Stanford, Calif., Applied Mathematics and Statistics Laboratories, Stanford University, 1963), by Hubert Halkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Feasible control computations using dynamic programming /, by Stephen J. Kahne and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communication by voluntary control of the electroencephalogram /, by Edmond M. Dewan and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A circuit for the automatic control of counting rate meters / (Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Service, 1950), by J. H. Pannell, Thomas J. Morrison, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Materials Science and Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analog computer study of the startup process in autoclave temperature control systems / (Richland, Wash. : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1961), by C. D. Swanson, United States. National Bureau of Standards. UC., United States. Department of Energy. Office of Fusion Energy. UC., United States. National Bureau of Standards. Fracture and Deformation Division. UC., U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. AEC research and development report, United States. Energy Research and Development Administration. TID., U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. TID., Hanford Works, and Hanford Atomic Products Operation. Physics and Instrument Research and Development Operation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods for determining frequency response of engines and control systems from transient data / (Washington, D.C. : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1949), by Melvin E. LaVerne, Aaron S. Boksenbom, and United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Linear systems (Canberra, Dept. of Pure Mathematics, S.G.S., Dept. of Mathematics, I.A.S., Australian National University, 1972), by W. A. Coppel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A survey of optimal control of distributed-parameter systems, (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Aerospace Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1969), by Battelle Memorial Institute. Columbus Laboratories and Alfred C. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Communication by electroencephalography /, by Edmond M. Dewan and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Control effectiveness of transverse jets interacting with a high-speed free stream., by J. W. Barnes, H. H. Tang, J. G. Davis, issuing agency Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.), and sponsor Douglas Aircraft Company. Santa Monica Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the workshop on multivariable control systems /, by issuing body Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories and sponsor Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.), ed. by Michael A. Masi and Daniel E. Russ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robustness and transition to turbulence in boundary layer flows /, by John C. Doyle, California Institute of Technology. sponsor, and United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• Computational algorithms for aerodynamic analysis and design /, by Antony Jameson, Luigi Martinelli, James Reuther, Princeton University. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. sponsor, and United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)

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