Textbooks

• Linear control:
  • Modern Control Theory
• Nonlinear control:
  • Nonlinear Systems: most highly-cited reference in nonlinear control
  • Nonlinear Systems: by Sastry, older (1999)
• Optimal control
  • Applied Optimal Control: from the father of modern optimal control, must read
  • Optimal Control: An Introduction: good introductory text
  • Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction: good introductory text
  • Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control: emphasis on DP
• Robust control
• Adaptive control
  • Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design: from the father of backstepping
  • Lecture notes / book by Naira Hovakimyan
• Stochastic control
  • Lectures notes / book by Roger W. Brockett
• Hybrid control