A high-order stabilization filter was formerly designed to stabilize an unstable pitch control system of a terminal homing missile system. In this report, a new dominant-data matching method is presented to redesign the high order stabilization filter. Using this new method several reduced order filters are obtained. As a result, the cost of implementation is reduced and the reliability is increased. An algebraic method is also applied to redesign the stabilization filter so that the performance of the redesigned pitch control system is improved. In addition, the proposed dominant-data matching method can be applied to determine a reduced order model of a high order system. Unlike the reduced order models obtained by most existing model reduction methods, the reduced order model mentioned above has the exact assigned frequency-domain specifications of the original system. The dominant-data matching method can also be applied to identify any practical system. (Author).

Airborne Vehicle Guidance and Control Systems is a broad and wide- angled engineering and technological area for research, and continues to be important not only in military defense systems but also in industrial process control and in commercial transportation networks such as various Global Positioning Systems (GPS). The book fills a long-standing gap in the literature. The author is retired from the Air Force Institute and received the Air Force's Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award.

Design of Guidance and Control Systems for Tactical Missiles presents a modern, comprehensive study of the latest design methods for tactical missile guidance and control. It analyzes autopilot designs, seeker system designs, guidance laws and theories, and the internal and external disturbances affecting the performance factors of missile guidance control systems. The text combines detailed examination of key theories with practical coverage of methods for advanced missile guidance control systems. It is valuable content for professors and graduate-level students in missile guidance and control, as well as engineers and researchers who work in the area of tactical missile guidance and control.

The newly developed dominant-data matching method has been successfully extended to design a digital pitch control system of a semiactive terminal homing missile system. As a result, the designed digital controller can be implemented on a microprocessor. Also, a direct-decoupling method for mulitvariable control system designs has been developed and modified. This newly developed simple and practical method can be readily applied by a practicing control engineer for coupled high-order multivariable control system designs. The feasibility of synthesizing a multi-port controller without using integrators has been studied. As a result, a new matrix Sturm series and block canonical form of a matrix transfer function has been developed. The practical applications of the newly developed results on multi-port network synthesis are further investigated. Other new findings of this research are reported in the appendix. (Author).