3.1. INTRODUCTION3.2. POLE-PLACEMENT DESIGN USING LINEAR-STATE-VARIABLE FEEDBACK3.3. CONTROLLER DESIGN USING POLE PLACEMENT AND LINEAR-STATE-VARIABLE FEEDBACK TECHNIQUES3.4. CONTROLLABILITY3.5. OBSERVABILITY3.6. ACKERMANN'S FORMULA FOR DESIGN USING POLE PLACEMENT [ 5 – 7 ]3.7. ESTIMATOR DESIGN IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE POLE PLACEMENT APPROACH USING UNEAR-STATE-VARIABLE FEEDBACK3.8. COMBINED COMPENSA FOR DESIGN INCLUDING A CONTROLLER AND AN ESTIMATOR FOR A REGULATOR SYSTEM3.9. EXTENSION OF COMBINED COMPENSATOR DESIGN INCLUDING A CONTROLLER AND AN ESTIMATOR FOR SYSTEMS CONTAINING A REFERENCE INPUT3.10. ROBUST CONTROL SYSTEMS [ 10 – 14 ]3.11. AN INTRODUCTION TO H ∞ CONTROL CONCEPTS [ 16 , 17 ]3.12. FOUNDATIONS OF H ∞ CONTROL THEORY3.13. LINEAR ALGEBRAIC ASPECTS OF CONTROL-SYSTEM DESIGN COMPUTATIONS [ 22 – 25 ]3.14. ILLUSTRATIVE PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONSPROBLEMSREFERENCES