This volume is a collection of chapters covering recent advances in stochastic optimal control theory and algebraic systems theory. The book will be a useful reference for researchers and graduate students in systems and control, algebraic systems theory, and applied mathematics. Requiring only knowledge of undergraduate-level control and systems theory, the work may be used as a supplementary textbook in a graduate course on optimal control or algebraic systems theory.
Statistical Control.- and Literature Survey of Statistical Control: Going Beyond the Mean.- Cumulant Control Systems: The Cost-Variance, Discrete-Time Case.- Statistical Control of Stochastic Systems Incorporating Integral Feedback: Performance Robustness Analysis.- Multi-Cumulant and Pareto Solutions for Tactics Change Prediction and Performance Analysis in Stochastic Multi-Team Noncooperative Games.- A Multiobjective Cumulant Control Problem.- Algebraic Systems Theory.- Systems over a Semiring: Realization and Decoupling.- Modules of Zeros for Linear Multivariable Systems.- Zeros in Linear Time-Delay Systems.- Dynamical System Characteristics.- On the Status of the Stability Theory of Discontinuous Dynamical Systems.- Direct Adaptive Optimal Control: Biologically Inspired Feedback Control.- Characterization and Calculation of Approximate Decentralized Fixed Modes (ADFMs).- Some New Nonlinear and Symbol Manipulation Techniques to Mitigate Adverse Effects of High PAPR in OFDM Wireless Communications.- Homogeneous Domination and the Decentralized Control Problem for Nonlinear System Stabilization.- Volterra Control Synthesis.- Engineering Education.- The First Professional Degree: Master of Engineering?.- Theology and Engineering: A Conversation in Two Languages.
