The biennial CONTROLO conferences are the main events promoted by

The CONTROLO 2016 - 12^th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, Guimaraes, Portugal, September 14^th to 16^th, was organized by Algoritmi, School of Engineering, University of Minho, in partnership with INESC TEC, and promoted by the Portuguese Association for Automatic Control - APCA, national member organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control - IFAC.

The seventy-five papers published in this volume cover a wide range of topics. Thirty-one of them, of...