António Paulo Moreira – författare

During the last 20 years the Portuguese association of automatic control, Associação Portuguesa de Controlo Automático, with the sponsorship of IFAC have established the CONTROLO conference as a reference international forum where an effective exchange of knowledge and experience amongst researchers active in various theoretical and applied areas of systems and control can take place, always including considerable space for promoting new technical applications and developments, real-world challenges and success stories. In this 11th edition the CONTROLO conference evolved by introducing two strategic partnerships with Spanish and Brazilian associations in automatic control, Comité Español de Automática and Sociedade Brasileira de Automatica, respectively.

This book contains a selection of papersaccepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT 2015: Second Iberian RoboticsConference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, November 19th-21th, 2015. ROBOT 2015 ispart of a series of conferences that are a joint organization of SPR –“Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica/ Portuguese Society for Robotics”, SEIDROB –Sociedad Española para la Investigación y Desarrollo de la Robótica/ SpanishSociety for Research and Development in Robotics and CEA-GTRob – Grupo Temáticode Robótica/ Robotics Thematic Group. The conference organization had also thecollaboration of several universities and research institutes, including: Universityof Minho, University of Porto, University of Lisbon, Polytechnic Institute ofPorto, University of Aveiro, University of Zaragoza, University of Malaga,LIACC, INESC-TEC and LARSyS.

Robot 2015 was focussed on the Roboticsscientific and technological activities in the Iberian Peninsula, although opento research anddelegates from other countries. The conference featured 19special sessions, plus a main/general robotics track. The special sessions wereabout: Agricultural Robotics and Field Automation; Autonomous Driving andDriver Assistance Systems; Communication Aware Robotics; EnvironmentalRobotics; Social Robotics: Intelligent and Adaptable AAL Systems; FutureIndustrial Robotics Systems; Legged Locomotion Robots; Rehabilitation andAssistive Robotics; Robotic Applications in Art and Architecture; SurgicalRobotics; Urban Robotics; Visual Perception for Autonomous Robots; MachineLearning in Robotics; Simulation and Competitions in Robotics; EducationalRobotics; Visual Maps in Robotics; Control and Planning in Aerial Robotics, theXVI edition of the Workshop on Physical Agents and a Special Session onTechnological Transfer and Innovation. 

This book contains a selection of papersaccepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT 2015: Second Iberian RoboticsConference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, November 19th-21th, 2015. ROBOT 2015 ispart of a series of conferences that are a joint organization of SPR –“Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica/ Portuguese Society for Robotics”, SEIDROB –Sociedad Española para la Investigación y Desarrollo de la Robótica/ SpanishSociety for Research and Development in Robotics and CEA-GTRob – Grupo Temáticode Robótica/ Robotics Thematic Group. The conference organization had also thecollaboration of several universities and research institutes, including: Universityof Minho, University of Porto, University of Lisbon, Polytechnic Institute ofPorto, University of Aveiro, University of Zaragoza, University of Malaga,LIACC, INESC-TEC and LARSyS.

Robot 2015 was focussed on the Roboticsscientific and technological activities in the Iberian Peninsula, although opento research anddelegates from other countries. The conference featured 19special sessions, plus a main/general robotics track. The special sessions wereabout: Agricultural Robotics and Field Automation; Autonomous Driving andDriver Assistance Systems; Communication Aware Robotics; EnvironmentalRobotics; Social Robotics: Intelligent and Adaptable AAL Systems; FutureIndustrial Robotics Systems; Legged Locomotion Robots; Rehabilitation andAssistive Robotics; Robotic Applications in Art and Architecture; SurgicalRobotics; Urban Robotics; Visual Perception for Autonomous Robots; MachineLearning in Robotics; Simulation and Competitions in Robotics; EducationalRobotics; Visual Maps in Robotics; Control and Planning in Aerial Robotics, theXVI edition of the Workshop on Physical Agents and a Special Session onTechnological Transfer and Innovation. 

The biennial CONTROLO conferences are the main events promoted by

The CONTROLO 2016 – 12th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, Guimarães, Portugal, September 14th to 16th, was organized by Algoritmi, School of Engineering, University of Minho, in partnership with INESC TEC, and promoted by the Portuguese Association for Automatic Control – APCA, national member organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control – IFAC.

The seventy-five papers published in this volume cover a wide range of topics. Thirty-one of them, of a more theoretical nature, are distributed among the first five parts: Control Theory; Optimal and Predictive Control; Fuzzy, Neural and Genetic Control; Modeling and Identification; Sensing and Estimation. 

The papers go from cutting-edge theoretical research to innovative control applications and show expressively how Automatic Control can be used to increase the well being of people.