Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Probabilistic Criterion in Problems of Observation and Control -- 1.1. General Statement of Probabilistic Problems -- 1.2. Concretization of the Quality Functional in Problems of Observation and Control -- 1.3. Numerical Algorithms for Finding Functionals of Probability and Quantile -- Chapter 2. Optimal Design of the Observation Process: Stochastic Approach -- 2.1. Formalization of Design Problems as the Program Control Problems -- 2.2. Equivalent Problems of Program Control -- 2.3. Necessary Conditions of Optimality on the Basis of Maximum Principle -- 2.4. Numerical Algorithms of Optimal Measurement Plan Construction -- 2.5. Connection of Equivalent Problems with Dual-Control Problems -- 2.6. Extension of Results to a Discrete Case -- Chapter 3. Optimal Filtering and Optimal Design of the Observation Process: Guaranteeing Approach -- 3.1. Experiment Model: Basic Variants of Error Description -- 3.2. Solution of Optimal Filtering and the Design Problem Under Uncertainty: Variants 1 and 2 -- 3.3. Solution of Optimal Filtering and the Design Problem Under a Combination of Random and Uncertain Factors: Variant 3 -- 3.4. Solution of Optimal Filtering and Design Problem Under Combination of Random and Uncertain Factors: Variant 4 -- 3.5. Example of Navigational Measurement Process Optimization in AES Orbit Definition -- Chapter 4. Optimization of Active Experiments -- 4.1. An Active Experiment with a View to Improving the Observability Conditions -- 4.2. Example of Optimization of the Rotation of an Accelerometer for Detecting a Gyroplatform's Deflection -- 4.3. Example of Optimizing an Aircraft-Observer's Informational Maneuver -- 4.4. Example of Optimization of the Active Experiment in Autonomous Navigation of a Geostationary Earth Satellite.

4.5. Optimization of Informational Noise When Observing a Dynamic Object -- 4.6. Example of Observing a Maneuvering Object -- Chapter 5. Control-Process Optimization as a Problem of Design -- 5.1. Optimization of the Process of Controlling a Deterministic System -- 5.2. Optimization of the Process of Controlling a Stochastic System -- 5.3. Control Optimization on the Basis of the Probabilistic Criterion -- 5.4. Optimal Combination of Observation and Control -- 5.5. Example of Optimization of One-Parametric Correction of a Spacecraft's Path -- 5.6. Example of Optimization of the Process of Navigational Measurement When Controlling a Geostationary Earth Satellite's Orbit -- Appendices -- References -- Glossary -- Explanation of Symbols -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.