Control and Soft Computing

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in control and soft computing systems have brought new levels of real-life applications in a wide range of areas, including control of industrial systems, internet of things (IoT), cyber-physical systems, smart grids, power and energy systems, biomedical engineering, and so on. The complexity and amount of data underlying the industrial processes have increased during the recent years, mainly with the advent of the industry 4.0 paradigm, thus requiring advanced strategies to cope with them. Soft computing techniques, as opposed to traditional computing, have been demonstrated to be a useful tool to translate the data and complexity of modern industrial systems into useful information, which can be, for example, used to help to process control and optimization, and process understanding.

This Special Issue intends to disseminate the recent developments on the topics of process control and soft computing, with an emphasis on, but not limited to, industrial systems. This being a multidisciplinary Special Issue, papers that have as main topic advanced techniques for control and soft computing algorithms are welcome, as well applications on:

• Modern control in the various industries;
• Computational intelligence methodologies for intelligent control and identification;
• Failure detection and predictive maintenance;
• Automatic decision making;
• Soft/virtual sensors;
• Internet of things (IoT);
• Cyber-physical systems;
• Smart grids;
• Intelligent robotics;
• Human–robot interaction;
• Power and energy systems;
• Smart manufacturing;
• Biomedical engineering.

Prof. Dr. Rui Araújo
Dr. Jérôme Mendes
Dr. Francisco A. A. Souza
Guest Editors

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