On behalf of the organizing committee, we are very pleased to welcome you to the 10th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control (CONTROLO'2012). The 2012 edition takes place at the Universidade da Madeira (UMa) in Funchal, from the 16th to 18th of July.

This Conference is organized under the auspices of the APCA. APCA is the Portuguese Association of Automatic Control, which is a national member organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).

The CONTROLO'2012 conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners to present new results and discuss the latest research and developments in the eld of automatic control.

The conference is intended as an international forum where an eective exchange of knowledge and experience amongst researchers active in various theoretical and applied areas of systems and control can take place. Participation of engineers and other scientists from industry is particularly signicant. The program includes also considerable space for promoting new technical applications and developments and real-world challenges.

We would like to thank the conference International Program Committee and additional reviewers for providing their assessments on time, and particularly to the keynote speakers and invited session organizers for providing the conference with interesting and up-to-date material.

We would like to demonstrate our gratitude to the Universidade da Madeira (UMa) for hosting the conference and for all the administrative support. In addition, we would like to thank the following institutions and companies for their support: Secretaria Regional da Cultura, Turismo e Transportes da Madeira, C^amara Municipal do Funchal, Ag^encia de Viagens InterTours, Cafes Delta, Empresa de Cervejas da Madeira, Banco Santander, Portugal Telecom, Monte Palace Tropical Garden and Telefericos da Madeira.

Please enjoy the conference, the city and the hospitality of the people of Madeira.

Morgado Dias

CONTROLO'2012 Chairman

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Group	Publications
Papers	A comparative analysis of tracking quality for cdm and pid control
Papers	Dual-processor neural network implementation in fpga
Papers	Comparing different implementations for the levenberg-marquardt algorithm
Papers	Minimum-time motion planning of cranes with parametric uncertainty using linear programming
Papers	Posicast pid control of oscillatory systems
Papers	Kernel behaviors on time scales
Papers	Fuzzy control of an electrolyzer in a stand-alone renewable energy system
Papers	Tracking in scale quad-rotors through adaptive augmentation
Papers	Programming embedded devices in iec 61131-languages with industrial plc tools using plcopen xml
Papers	Application and analysis of stiction estimation methods to control valves
Papers	Obstacle avoidance in optimal switching of a formation geometry
Papers	Visual continuous maps for electric bills comparison
Papers	Robust pole-placement control of neuromuscular blockade
Papers	Position control for induction motors using the sliding mode control theory
Papers	Lyapunov stability constrained adaptive nmpc for tubular bioreactors⋆
Papers	Decision support system for building renovation
Papers	Semi-active viscous damper for controlling civil engineering structures subjected to earthquakes
Papers	Gains tuning of fuzzy controllers based on a cost function optimization
Papers	Karnuma an educational tool for digital systems
Papers	Modeling omnidirectional mobile robots: an approach using simtwo
Papers	Rolling a pseudohyperbolic space over the affine tangent space at a point
Papers	A hyperbolic tangent replacement by third order polynomial approximation
Papers	Multi-parametric constrained optimal control of a pneumatic artificial muscle
Papers	A characterization of hysteresis systems
Papers	Model predictive control for thermal house comfort with limited energy resources
Papers	Generation of artificial neural networks models in anticancer study
Papers	Asymptotic stability of linear stochastic systems with delay driven by a bernoulli process
Papers	Online damage detection in euler-bernoulli beams using the extended kalman filter
Papers	Underdetermined stochastic systems modelled by a control dependent diffusion
Papers	On the stability of linear fractional difference systems
Papers	Extended nonholonomic systems with drift
Papers	A novel linear milp model to solve kakuro puzzles
Papers	Portuguese consortium for online experimentation
Papers	Why controllability of rolling motions may fail
Papers	On the implementation of different hyperbolic tangent solutions in fpga
Papers	Extension of real-time image validity by event-based updates
Papers	Evaluation and optimization of three-phase separator vessel controlled by pi controls applying parti...
Papers	A multi-agent approach for outlier accommodation inwireless sensor and actuator networks
Papers	Artificial neural networks in the scope of optical performance monitoring
Papers	Renewable energy characterization of madeira island
Papers	Neuromuscular blockade control based on self-oscillating adaptive systems
Papers	Cost-based optimisation of the routing for wireless sensor networks in the presence of mobility
Papers	Loiral wind park modelling using artificial neural networks
Papers	Design and implementation of controlled atmosphere chambers for cherry conservation
Papers	Distributed event-based observers for lti networked systems
Papers	Trajectory constraints for robust vehicle formation control
Papers	Monitoring and management of energy in penteada building – a case study
Papers	Experimental setup for turbocharger control
Papers	Artificial neural networks – a survey about hardware and software use
Papers	Artificial neural networks: a review of training tools
Papers	A linear design model for wave filtering and dynamic positioning
Papers	Automatic pilot plant facility designed for the controlled ageing of madeira wines
Papers	Dynamic matrix control of thermal-optical laboratory system
Papers	A nonlinear mpc approach to minimize toxicity in hiv-1 infection multi-drug therapy
Papers	Observability analysis of the simultaneous underwater vehicle localization and mapping based on rang...
Papers	Wireless magnetic based sensor system for road traffic data collection
Papers	A hospital patient localisation system using rf-signal rtt measurements
Papers	Wireless vehicular communications for automatic incident detection and recovery
Invited speakers	Distributed control of water delivery canals
Invited speakers	Networked control systems: a wireless multirate perspective
Invited speakers	Optimal kernel filtering for system identi
Invited speakers	Real-time communications: from fieldbuses and industrial automation to wireless and vehicular applic...
Invited session	Fault tolerant reconfigurable control of a water delivery canal – actuator faults
Invited session	Sensor fault tolerant architecture for irrigation canals
Invited session	Modular modeling for large scale canal networks
Invited session	Agent-based distributed control of a water distribution canal
Invited session	Assessment of data-driven modeling strategies forwater delivery canals
Invited session	Parameter tuning of a distributed model predictive controller forwater delivery canal application

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