Advances in Automation and Robotics Research

This book gathers the proceedings of the 2nd Latin American Congress on Automation and Robotics, held at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia, on October 30th-November 1st, 2019. It presents papers from researchers, scientists, and engineers from academia and industry, and explores current exciting research applications and future challenges, mainly in Latin American countries. The book covers a wide range of research fields associated with automation and robotics encountered in engineering, scientific research, and practice, including: autonomous systems, multi-robot and multi-agent systems, industrial automation and robotics, process control, modeling and optimization, control theory, artificial intelligence, kinematic and dynamic analysis of robotic systems, computer vision, self-localization, mapping and navigation, instruments, sensing and sensor fusion, evolutionary, bio-inspired, micro/nano, and soft robotics, novel robot designs, haptics, human-robot interaction and interfaces, simulation procedures, experimental validations, and educational robotics.