Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics 13th International Conference, ICINCO 2016 Lisbon, Portugal, 29-31 July, 2016

The book addresses the latest advances in research and development in the field of informatics in control, robotics and automation. With more than twenty revised and extended articles covering the theoretical aspects as well as applications and their implementation, it offers a factual and well-balanced overview of the state of the art in the field. In addition, it highlights the trends in control of intelligent robots.

The book is an up-to-date source of information and inspiration for researchers, engineers and PhD students.

Identification and Control of the Waelz Process using Infrared Image Processing.- An Adaptive Terminal Sliding Mode Guidance Law for Head Pursuit Interception with Impact Angle Considered.- Mathematical model for the output signal's energy of an ideal DAC in the presence of Clock Jitter.- A Comparison of Discretization Methods for Parameter Estimation of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems Using Extended Kalman Filter: Symplectic vs. Classical .- Toward an Automatic Fongbe Speech Recognition System: Hierarchical Mixtures of Algorithms for Phoneme Recognition.- On Redundancy Resolution in Minimum-Time Trajectory Planning of Robotic Manipulators Along Predefined End-Effector Position Paths.- Dynamics Calibration and Real-Time State Estimation of a Redundant Flexible Joint Robot based on Encoders and Gyroscopes.- A Method for the Energy Optimization of a Multisource Elevator.- Visual Servoing Path-Planning with