Proceedings of 19th Latin American Control Congress (LACC 2022) / Studies in Systems, Decision and Control Bd.464 (PDF)

This book presents the main results of the 19th Latin American Congress of Automatic Control held in November 2022 in Havana, Cuba. The Congress showed several main research results obtained by researchers from diverse countries in the last four years.

Of the papers sent to Congress, 28 were finally accepted for presentation after a rigorous analysis of scientific novelty and quality. For their presentation in this book, the papers were divided into 5 major sections that appear in the following order:

Part 1. Robust and Nonlinear Control

Part 2. Fault Diagnosis in Industrial Systems

Fault diagnosis in industrial plants is a very important topic in the Industry 4.0 paradigm.In this part, new techniques of fault diagnosis in mechanical systems using Poincaré features; a real case study for predicting the time of the remaining job cycle at a water treatment plant; and a predictive fault diagnosis for isolated photovoltaic systems are presented. A novel methodology for detecting and locating cyber-attacks in water distribution networks using computational intelligence tools is also presented.

Part 3. Robotic and Autonomous Systems

New control strategies for path following for autonomous tractors and unmanned aquatic vehicles are analyzed in this part. Moreover, the important topic related to the battery health-aware model predictive control planning for autonomous racing vehicles and the use of robots for monitoring and remediation applications are examined.

Part 4. Modeling, Identification, and Delayed Systems

Part 5. Low-Cost Systems and Biomedical Applications

In this part, some applications of low-cost monitoring and control systems and two automatic systems used for the characterization of creatinine in wastes samples during hemodialysis process and differential acquisition of blood pressure are shown.