Fairman F. Linear Control Theory. The State Space Approach

Fairman F. Linear Control Theory. The State Space Approach. 1998 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. - 331p.
This book was written with the intent of providing students and practicing control engineers with the basic background in control theory needed to use control system design software more productively. The book begins with a detailed treatment of those aspects of the state space analysis of linear systems that are needed in the remainder of the text. The book is organized in the following manner:
The first four chapters develop linear system theory including model reduction via balanced realization.
Chapters 5 and 6 deal with classical optimal control theory.
The final four chapters are devoted to the development of suboptimal H8 control theory.