Despite the development of a now vast body of knowledge known as
modern control theory, and despite some spectacular applications of this
theory to practical situations, it is quite clear that much of the theory has
yet to find application, and many practical control problems have yet to find
a theory which will successfully deal with them. No book of course can
remedy the situation at this time. But the aim of this book is to construct
one of many bridges that are still required for the student and practicing
control engineer between the familiar classical control results and those of
modern control theory.
