The present book includes a set of selected papers from the third "International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics" (ICINCO 2006), held in Setubal, Portugal, from 1 to 5 August 2006, sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). The conference was organized in three simultaneous tracks: "Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization," "Robotics and Automation" and "Systems Modeling, Signal Processing and Control." The book is based on the same structure. Although ICINCO 2006 received 309 paper...