Informatics In Control, Automation And Robotics: Selected Papers From The International Conference On Informatics In Control, Automation And Robotics 2007( Series - Lecture Notes In Electrical Engineering )

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the 3rd a oeInternational Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Roboticsa (ICINCO 2006), held in SetAbal, Portugal, 1-5 August 2006. The conference was organized in three simultaneous tracks: a oeIntelligent Control Systems and Optimizationa, a oeRobotics and Automationa and a oeSystems Modeling, Signal Processing and Controla . The book is based on the same structure. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to Control, Automation and Robotics.

Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Control, Automation and Robotics, and this conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, most papers highlight applications of Information Technology (IT) in these areas and present ideas on how to solve problems using IT, both in R and D and industrial applications. A diversity of papers are included in the book, ranging from papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques to papers presenting surveys indicating future directions.