Ashish Tewari 
Advanced Control of Aircraft, Spacecraft and Rockets [EPUB ebook] 

Series Preface.
Preface.
1 Introduction.
1.1 Notation and Basic Definitions.
1.2 Control Systems.
1.3 Guidance and Control of Flight Vehicles.
1.4 Special Tracking Laws.
1.5 Digital Tracking System.
1.6 Summary.
2 Optimal Control Techniques.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Multi-variable Optimization.
2.3 Constrained Minimization.
2.4 Optimal Control of Dynamic Systems.
2.5 The Hamiltonian and the Minimum Principle.
2.6 Optimal Control with End-Point State Equality Constraints.
22.7 Numerical Solution of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems.
2.8 Optimal Terminal Control with Interior Time Constraints.
2.9 Tracking Control.
2.10 Stochastic Processes.
2.11 Kalman Filter.
2.12 Robust Linear Time-Invariant Control.
2.13 Summary.
3 Optimal Navigation and Control of Aircraft.
3.1 Aircraft Navigation Plant.
3.2 Optimal Aircraft Navigation.
3.3 Aircraft Attitude Dynamics.
3.4 Aerodynamic Forces and Moments.
3.5 Longitudinal Dynamics.
3.6 Optimal Multi-variable Longitudinal Control.
3.7 Multi-input Optimal Longitudinal Control.
3.8 Optimal Airspeed Control.
3.9 Lateral-Directional Control Systems.
3.9.1 Lateral-Directional Plant.
3.10 Optimal Control of Inertia-Coupled Aircraft Rotation.
3.11 Summary.
4 Optimal Guidance of Rockets.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 Optimal Terminal Guidance of Interceptors.
4.3 Non-planar Optimal Tracking System for Interceptors: 3DPN.
4.4 Flight in a Vertical Plane.
4.5 Optimal Terminal Guidance.
4.6 Vertical Launch of a Rocket (Goddard’s Problem).
4.7 Gravity-Turn Trajectory of Launch Vehicles.
4.8 Launch of Ballistic Missiles.
4.9 Planar Tracking Guidance System.
4.10 Robust and Adaptive Guidance.
4.11 Guidance with State Feedback.
4.12 Observer-Based Guidance of Gravity-Turn Launch Vehicle.
4.13 Mass and Atmospheric Drag Modeling.
4.14 Summary.
5 Attitude Control of Rockets.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Attitude Control Plant.
5.3 Closed-Loop Attitude Control.
5.4 Roll Control System.
5.5 Pitch Control of Rockets.
5.6 Yaw Control of Rockets.
5.7 Summary.
6 Spacecraft Guidance Systems.
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 Orbital Mechanics.
6.3 Spacecraft Terminal Guidance.
6.4 General Orbital Plant for Tracking Guidance.
6.5 Planar Orbital Regulation.
6.6 Optimal Non-planar Orbital Regulation.
6.7 Summary.
7 Optimal Spacecraft Attitude Control.
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 Terminal Control of Spacecraft Attitude.
7.3 Multi-axis Rotational Maneuvers of Spacecraft.
7.4 Spacecraft Control Torques.
7.5 Satellite Dynamics Plant for Tracking Control.
7.6 Environmental Torques.
7.7 Multi-variable Tracking Control of Spacecraft Attitude.
7.8 Summary.
Appendix A: Linear Systems.
A.1 Definition.
A.2 Linearization.
A.3 Solution to Linear State Equations.
A.4 Linear Time-Invariant System.
A.5 Linear Time-Invariant Stability Criteria.
A.6 Controllability of Linear Time-Invariant Systems.
A.7 Observability of Linear Time-Invariant Systems.
A.8 Transfer Matrix.
A.9 Singular Value Decomposition.
A.10 Linear Time-Invariant Control Design.
Appendix B: Stability.
B.1 Preliminaries.
B.2 Stability in the Sense of Lagrange.
B.3 Stability in the Sense of Lyapunov.
Appendix C: Control of Underactuated Flight Systems.
C.1 Adaptive Rocket Guidance with Forward Acceleration Input.
C.2 Thrust Saturation and Rate Limits (Increased Underactuation).
C.3 Single- and Bi-output Observers with Forward Acceleration Input.
References.
Index.

Ashish Tewari is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the IIT-Kanpur. He specializes in flight mechanics and control, and his research areas include attitude dynamics and control, re-entry flight dynamics and control, non-linear optimal control and active control of flexible flight and structures. He has authored 2 books Atmospheric and Space Flight Dynamics and Modern Control Design with MATLAB and SIMULINK, and over 40 refereed journal and conference papers.