Journal Papers

• J. D. Cobb, "Feedback and Pole Placement in Descriptor Variable Systems," International Journal of Control, Vol. 33, No. 6, 1981, 1135-1146.
• J. D. Cobb, "On the Solutions of Linear Differential Equations with Singular Coefficients," Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 46, No. 3, December 1982, 310-323.
• J. D. Cobb, "Descriptor Variable Systems and Optimal State Regulation," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 28, No. 5, May 1983, 601-611.
• J. D. Cobb, "A Further Interpretation of Inconsistent Initial Conditions in Descriptor Variable Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 28, No. 9, September 1983, 920-922.
• J. D. Cobb, "Controllability, Observability, and Duality in Singular Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 29, No. 12, December 1984, 1076-1082.
• J. D. Cobb, "On the Topology of Spaces of Controllable and Observable Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 31, No. 6, June 1986, 557-559.
• J. D. Cobb, "Fundamental Properties of the Manifold of Singular and Regular Systems," Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 120, November 1986, 328-353.
• J. D. Cobb, "Global Analyticity of a Geometric Decomposition for Linear Singularly Perturbed Systems," Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing--special issue on semistate systems, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1986, 139-152.
• J. D. Cobb, "Robust Stabilization Relative to the Unweighted H-infinity Norm is Generically Unattainable in the Presence of Singular Plant Perturbations," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 32, January 1987, 51-53.
• J. D. Cobb, "Linear Compensator Designs Based Exclusively on Input-Output Information Are Never Robust with Respect to Unmodeled Dynamics," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 33, No. 6, June 1988, 559-563.
• J. D. Cobb, "Toward a Theory of Robust Compensation for Systems with Unknown Parasitics," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, December 1988, 1130-1138.
• J. D. Cobb, "Topological Aspects of Controllability and Observability on the Manifold of Singular and Regular Systems," Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 138, No. 1, February 1989, 21-42.
• J. D. Cobb, C. L. DeMarco, "The Minimal Dimension of Stable Faces Required to Guarantee Stability of a Matrix Polytope," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, September 1989, 990-992.
• J. D. Cobb, "The Minimal Dimension of Stable Faces Required to Guarantee Stability of a Matrix Polytope: D-Stability," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, April 1990, 469-473.
• Tan Mingde, J. D. Cobb, "A Realization Theory for Perturbed Linear Systems," Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol.187, No.1, October, 1994, 169-195.
• J. D. Cobb, "A Unified Theory of Full-Order and Low-Order Observers via Singular System Theory," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, December 1994.
• C.-J. Wang, J. D. Cobb, "A Characterization of Bounded-Input Bounded-Output Stability for Linear Time-Invariant Systems with Distributional Inputs," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 34, No. 3, May 1996, 987-1000.
• C.-J. Wang, J. D. Cobb, "A Characterization of Bounded-Input Bounded-Output Stability for Linear Time-Varying Systems with Distributional Inputs," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2004, 1222-1243.
• J. D. Cobb, "State Feedback Impulse Elimination for Singular Systems over a Hermite Domain," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 44, No. 6, 2006, 2189-2209.
• J. D. Cobb, J. Eapen, "High-Gain State Feedback Analysis Based on Singular System Theory," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 44, No. 6, 2006, 2210-2232.
• J. D. Cobb, "Eigenvalue Conditions for Convergnece of Singularly Perturbed Matrix Exponential Functions," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 48, No. 7, pp. 4327-4351, 2010.
• J. D. Cobb, "Singular Observer-Based Compensators and the Deterministic Separation Principle," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 50, No. 4, 1921-1949, 2012.
• J. D. Cobb, R. Rujanakraikarn "Genericity of Classes of Observer-Based Compensators," SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 51, No. 2, 1035-1046, 2013

Conference Papers

• J. D. Cobb, T. N. Trick, "Small-signal Third-order Distortion Analysis of Transistor Amplifiers," Proceedings of the 14th Annual Allerton Conference on Circuit and System Theory, Monticello, October 1976, 1042-1051.
• J. D. Cobb, "Observability and Impulse Observers in Descriptor Variable Systems," Proceedings of the 20th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, October 1982, 825-833.
• J. D. Cobb, "Structurally Stable Feedback Control of Singular Systems," Proceedings of the 21st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, October 1983, 816-818.
• J. D. Cobb, "Slow and Fast Stability in Singular Systems," Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, December 1984, 280-282.
• J. D. Cobb, "Robust Compensator Design Based on Input-Output Information," Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, October 1985, 908-910.
• J. D. Cobb, "On the Robustness of Compensator Designs Based Exclusively on Input-Output Information," Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Fort Lauderdale, December 1985, 689-692.
• J. D. Cobb, "The Inadequacy of Input-Output Information in Robust Compensator Design," Proceedings of the 24th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, October 1986, 899-900.
• J. D. Cobb, "An Explicit Characterization of Destabilizing Phenomena for an Arbitrary Control System," Proceedings of the 26th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, December 1987.
• J. D. Cobb, "Conditions for Existence of an Optimal Control in the LQ Regulator Problem for Singular Systems," Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, October 1987.
• Tan Mingde, J. D. Cobb, "A Realization Theory for Perturbed Singular Systems," International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Phoenix, June 1987, in Linear Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing: Theory and Application, North Holland, 1988, 265-270.
• J. D. Cobb, C. L. DeMarco, "The Minimal Dimension of Stable Faces Required to Guarantee Stability of a Matrix Polytope," Proceedings of the 1988 American Control Conference, Atlanta, June 1988, 818-819.
• J. D. Cobb, "The Minimal Dimension of Stable Faces Required to Guarantee Stability of Matrix Polytopes: D-Stability," Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, December 1988.
• N. Safari-Shad, J. D. Cobb, "A Lyapunov-Based Proof of the Quadratic Separation Principle for Systems with Noise-Free Measurements," Proceedings of the 1992 American Control Conference, Chicago, June 1992.
• J. D. Cobb, "On Realization Theory for Generalized State-Space Systems over a Commutative Ring," in Linear Algebra for Control Theory, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications 62, Van Dooren and Wyman eds., Springer Verlag, 1994.
• N. Safari-Shad, J. D. Cobb, "On a Deterministic Least Squares Estimation Theory for LTI Systems," Proceedings of the Iranian Confonference on Electrical Engineering, Tehran, May 1995.
• J. Shafii, J. D. Cobb, R. J. Vernon, "Optimal Design of Overmoded Waveguide Tapers Using the Pontryagin Minimum Principle with Application to TE0n Circular Waveguide Taper Designs," Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Orlando, December 1995.
• J. D. Cobb, "Feedback Analysis for Non-Strictly-Proper Systems," Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, June 2001.
• J. D. Cobb, "A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for High-Frequency Robustness of Non-Strictly-Proper Feedback Systems," Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, FL, December 2001.
• J. D. Cobb, "State Feedback Impulse Elimination for Singular Systems over a Hermite Domain," Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, December 2006.
• J. D. Cobb, J. Eapen, "High-Gain State Feedback Analysis Based on Singular System Theory," Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, December 2006.