Junkins J. Mechanics and Control of Large Flexible Structures 1990

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This book is divided into three major parts: Part I consists of Chapters 1-9 and considers structural modeling, multibody dynamics, and system identification issues. Part II, including Chapters 10-17, deals with theory and computational methods for feedback control design, order reduction, stability of time varying systems, and nonlinear optimization. Finally, Part III, consisting of Chapters 18-25, addresses a) analytical and experimental methods for control/structure interaction, b) feedback control law design for flexible systems undergoing large motions, and c) tether connected systems. Each part contains one or more review chapters that broadly address major subsets of the research literature, as well as several more sharply focused chapters on recent methodology and experimental results