2 - Preliminaries

Summary

This chapter starts by reviewing important concepts from probability theory and stochastic processes. Subsequent chapters on probabilistic input and structural uncertainty make heavy use of random vectors and vector-valued stochastic process, so the reader should be familiar with the material included on these concepts. Next, the chapter provides a review of set-theoretic notions. The material on sets in Euclidean space included in this part is key to understanding the set-theoretic approach to input uncertainty modeling. The chapter concludes with a review of several fundamental concepts from the theory of discrete- and continuous-time linear dynamical systems.