1 Parametric Plants and Controllers.- 1.1 State Space Model, Linearization, Eigenvalues.- 1.2 The Leverrier-Faddejew Algorithm.- 1.3 Transfer Function.- 1.4 Robust Controllability, Observability, Feedback Structures.- 1.5 Output Feedback, Closed-loop Characteristic Polynomial.- 1.6 Hurwitz-stability, Stabilizing Controller Parameters.- 1.7 Controller Structures for Partially Known Inputs.- 2 Hurwitz-stability Boundary Crossing and Parameter Space Approach.- 2.1 Critical Stability Conditions.- 2.2 The Parameter Space Approach.- 2.3 Pole Placement.- 2.4 Sequential Pole Shifting.- 2.5 Singular Frequencies.- 2.6 Hurwitz-stability Regions for PID-controllers.- 2.7 Hurwitz-stability Regions for a Compensator or Plant Subpolynomial.- 3 Eigenvalue Specifications.- 3.1 Poles, Zeros and Step Responses.- 3.2 Root Sets, Gamma-stability.- 3.3 Physical Meaning of Closed-loop Poles.- 3.4 Remarks on Existence of Robust Controllers.- 3.5 Further Potential of the Parameter Space Approach.- 4 Gamma-boundary Mapping into Parameter Space.- 4.1 Algebraic Problem Formulation.- 4.2 Parameter Space Mapping.- 4.3 Generalized Singular Frequencies.- 4.4 Gamma-stable PID-control.- 4.5 Non-linear Coefficient Functions.- 5 Frequency Domain Analysis and Design.- 5.1 Frequency Loci Specifications (Theta-stability).- 5.2 Mapping of Frequency Loci Margins into Parameter Space.- 5.3 Frequency Response Magnitude Specifications (Beta-stability).- 5.4 Mapping of Frequency Response Magnitude Specifications into Parameter Space.- 5.5 MIMO Systems.- 6 Case Studies in Car Steering.- 6.1 Tires, Braking, and Steering.- 6.2 The Two Steering Tasks.- 6.3 The Non-linear Single-track Model and its Robust Unilateral Decoupling.- 6.4 The Linearized Single-track Model.- 6.5 Linear Analysis of Robust Decoupling.- 6.6 Skidding Avoidance Based on Robust Decoupling.- 6.7 Skidding Avoidance Based on the Disturbance Observer.- 6.8 Rollover Avoidance.- 6.9 Patents.- 6.10 Automatic Car Steering.- 7 Case Studies in Flight Control.- 7.1 Aircraft Load Alleviation in case of an Engine Out by Robust Yaw-lateral Decoupling.- 7.2 Robust and Fault-tolerant Gamma-stabilization of an F4-E.- 7.3 Large Envelope Flight Control of a High Performance Aircraft.- 8 Robustness Analysis by Value Sets.- 8.1 Mikhailov Plot.- 8.2 Value Sets and Zero Exclusion.- 8.3 Interval Polynomials, Kharitonov Theorem.- 8.4 Affine Coefficients: Edge Theorem.- 8.5 Edge Theorem for Gamma-stability.- 8.6 Singularity of Value Sets.- 9 Value Sets for Non-linear Coefficient Functions.- 9.1 A Warning Example.- 9.2 Desoer Mapping Theorem.- 9.3 Tree-structured Value Set Construction.- 9.4 Computer-aided Execution of Value Set Operations.- 9.5 Tree-structured Transfer Functions.- 9.6 The Stability Profile.- 9.7 Synopsis of Parametric Robustness Analysis.- 10 The Stability Radius.- 10.1 Tsypkin-Polyak Loci.- 10.2 Affine Dependence: The Largest Hypersphere in Parameter Space.- 10.3 Polynomial Dependence.- 11 Robustness of Sampled-data Control Systems.- 11.1 Plant and Controller Discretization.- 11.2 Discrete-time Controllers.- 11.3 Eigenvalue Specifications.- 11.4 Classical Stability Tests.- 11.5 Edge Test.- 11.6 Construction of Value Sets.- 11.7 Real Radius of Stability.- 11.8 Single-loop Feedback Structures.- 11.9 Circle Stability.- A Polynomials and Polynomial Equations.- B PARADISE: Parametric Robustness Analysis and Design Interactive Software Environment.