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.