TY - GEN AU - Pedro Ponce AU - Luis M.Ibarra AU - Arturo Molina Gutierrez TI - Automation and Control Trends SN - 61646 PY - 2016/// PB - IntechOpen KW - Physical Sciences KW - Engineering and Technology KW - Robot Control KW - Machine Learning KW - Robotics N1 - Open Access N2 - This book is an overview of the different paths automation and control engineering have taken lately, from a modern point of view. 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. 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 UR - https://www.intechopen.com/books/automation-and-control-trends UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/41642 ER -