Presents a comprehensive overview of the recently developed L1 adaptive control theory, including detailed proofs of the main results. It covers detailed proofs of the main results and also presents the flight test results that have used this theory and contains results not yet published in technical journals and conference proceedings.

Naira Hovakimyan is Professor and Schaller Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; Computational Management Science; and Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace, and she has authored over 200 refereed publications. Dr Hovakimyan was the 2004, 2005 and 2007 recipient of the Pride@Boeing award, and she received the Dean's Award for Research Excellence at Virginia Tech in 2008. Her current interests are in the theory of robust adaptive control and estimation with an emphasis on aerospace applications, control in the presence of limited information, networks of autonomous systems and game theory.