"Automation and Control Trends" ed. by Pedro Ponce, Arturo Molina Gutierrez and Luis M. Ibarra

This book is an overview of the different paths automation and control engineering have taken lately, from a modern point of view. This book's aim is precisely that of showing how broad and diverse the control objectives have become and how the abilities of the control engineer should be extended.

Built up with example chapters, this book provides some insight into the use of artificial intelligence and control theory on manufacturing, comfort analysis, reliability of modern digital systems, and the use of unusual reference and feedback signals as those coming from the brain. Nonetheless, some chapters are also devoted to a more traditional point of view of control theory, addressing complex problems where human intervention must be limited. Overall, this book is an effort to show that modern automation and control engineering are comprised by many diverse areas, which should interact in order to provide a complete result. In this way, as the systems become more complex and the control objectives more subjective, both, formal analytic and intelligent approaches, should be seen as complementary tools, not unrelated competitors.

Contents
Preface
1 New Strategy to Approach the Inverse Kinematics Model for Manipulators with Rotational Joints
2 Models for the Reliability Analysis of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems for Nuclear Power Plants
3 Force Estimation for Teleoperating Industrial Robots
4 Human Movement Control
5 Aircraft Landing Control Using the H-inf Control and the Dynamic Inversion Technique
6 Adaptive Building Envelope: An Integral Approach to Indoor Environment Control in Buildings
7 Automatic Prompt Gamma‐Ray Analysis System: Automation of an Existing Large‐Scale Analytical Device
8 Fuzzy PD Controller in NAO System's Platform