The present book includes a set of selected papers from the first “International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics” (ICINCO 2004), held in Setúbal, Portugal, from 25 to 28 August 2004.

INVITED SPEAKERS.- ROBOT-HUMAN INTERACTION Practical experiments with a cyborg.- INDUSTRIAL AND REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Illusion or reality?.- THE DIGITAL FACTORY Planning and simulation of production in automotive industry.- WHAT’S REAL IN “REAL-TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS”? Applying formal verification methods and real-time rule-based systems to control systems and robotics.- SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR THE STABILIZABILITY OF MULTI-STATE UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS, UNDER INFORMATION CONSTRAINTS.- Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization.- DEVICE INTEGRATION INTO AUTOMATION SYSTEMS WITH CONFIGURABLE DEVICE HANDLER.- NON LINEAR SPECTRAL SDP METHOD FOR BMI-CONSTRAINED PROBLEMS : APPLICATIONS TO CONTROL DESIGN.- A STOCHASTIC OFF LINE PLANNER OF OPTIMAL DYNAMIC MOTIONS FOR ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS.- FUZZY MODEL BASED CONTROL APPLIED TO IMAGE-BASED VISUAL SERVOING.- AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO NONLINEAR DISCRETE-TIME OPTIMAL CONTROL WITH TERMINAL CONSTRAINTS.- A DISTURBANCE COMPENSATION CONTROL FOR AN ACTIVE MAGNETIC BEARING SYSTEM BY A MULTIPLE FXLMS ALGORITHM.- AN INTELLIGENT RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM BASED ON FUZZY LOGIC.- MODEL REFERENCE CONTROL IN INVENTORY AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT The implementation of a more suitable cost function.- AN LMI OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR GUARANTEED COST CONTROL OF SYSTEMS WITH STATE AND INPUT DELAYS.- USING A DISCRETE-EVENT SYSTEM FORMALISM FOR THE MULTI-AGENT CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS.- Robotics and Automation.- FORCE RIPPLE COMPENSATOR FOR A VECTOR CONTROLLED PM LINEAR SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR.- HYBRID CONTROL DESIGN FOR A ROBOT MANIPULATOR IN A SHIELD TUNNELING MACHINE.- MOCONT LOCATION MODULE: A CONTAINER LOCATION SYSTEM BASED ON DR/DGNSS INTEGRATION.- PARTIAL VIEWS MATCHING USING A METHOD BASED ON PRINCIPALCOMPONENTS.- TOWARDS A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK-BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR UNMANNED SYSTEMS.- A INTERPOLATION-BASED APPROACH TO MOTION GENERATION FOR HUMANOID ROBOTS.- REALISTIC DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT WITH JOINT FRICTION.- A NEW PARADIGM FOR SHIP HULL INSPECTION USING A HOLONOMIC HOVER-CAPABLE AUV.- DIMSART: A REAL TIME - DEVICE INDEPENDENT MODULAR SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR ROBOTIC AND TELEROBOTIC APPLICATIONS.- Signal Processing,Systems Modeling and Control.- ON MODELING AND CONTROL OF DISCRETE TIMED EVENT GRAPHS WITH MULTIPLIERS USING (MIN, +) ALGEBRA.- MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR HYBRID SYSTEMS UNDER A STATE PARTITION BASED MLD APPROACH (SPMLD).- EFFICIENT SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FOR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL WITH THE ISIAC SOFTWARE.- TWO-DIMENSIONAL BARCODE SYMBOLOGY PDF417 IMPROVING PERFORMANCE OF THE DECODER FOR.- CONTEXT IN ROBOTIC VISION Control for real-time adaptation.- DYNAMIC STRUCTURE CELLULAR AUTOMATA IN A FIRE SPREADING APPLICATION.- SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM Based on the stochastic modeling.- MOMENT-LINEAR STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS.- ACTIVE ACOUSTIC NOISE CONTROL IN DUCTS.- HYBRID UML COMPONENTS FOR THE DESIGN OF COMPLEX SELF-OPTIMIZING MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS.