The problem presented is a study of the peak-holding method of optimalization. This method applies to a system that has an extremum.
After describing how the complete system, consisting of the controller and the controlled system, works; variations in the controller are presented. These variations are changes in the final stage of the controller, the servo. A phase-plane analysis shows how the output of the controlled system varies with its rate of change. Limitations are presented which tell why the system cannot be kept at its peak value at all times. Finally an analog simulation is used to study the system and verify the theoretical results --Abstract, page ii
