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 Setúbal, 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 submissions, from more than 50 different countries in all continents, only 31 where accepted as full papers. From those, only 23 were selected for inclusion in this book, based on the classifications provided by the Program Committee. The selected papers also reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the conference. The diversity of topics is an important feature of this conference, enabling an overall perception of several important scientific and technological trends. These high quality standards will be maintained and reinforced at ICINCO 2007, to be held in Angers, France, and in future editions of this conference.

Invited Papers.- Intelligent Vehicle Systems:Applications and New Trends.- Symbiosis of Human and Communication Robots.- Wave-based Control of Flexible Mechanical Systems.- What is Networked Robotics?.- Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization.- Encoding Fuzzy Diagnosis Rules as Optimisation Problems.- A Multi-agent Home Automation System for Power Management.- Feature Selection for Identification of Spot Welding Processes.- Fuzzy Logic Based UAV Allocation and Coordination.- Neural Network Model Based on Fuzzy ARTMAP for Forecasting of Highway Traffic Data.- Automated Generation of Optimal Controllers through Model Checking Techniques.- Robotics and Automation.- Autonomous Gait Pattern for a Dynamic Biped Walking.- Particle-Filter Approach for Cooperative Localization in Unstructured Scenarios.- Interaction Control Experiments for a Robot with one Flexible Link.- Smooth Trajectory Planning for Fully Automated Passengers Vehicles: Spline and Clothoid Based Methods and Its Simulation.- Finding The Best Classifier for Evaluating Cork Quality In An Industrial Environment.- Visual Topological Map Building in Self-similar Environments.- Image Motion Estimator to Track Trajectories Specified With Respect to Moving Objects.- Depth Gradient Image Based On Silhouette: A Solution for Reconstruction Of Scenes in 3D Environments.- Tracking Multiple Objects Using the Viterbi Algorithm.- Reactive Simulation for Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance.- A Gain-Scheduling Approach for Airship Path-Tracking.- Semiotics and Human-Robot Interaction.- Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control.- Multimodelling Steps for Free-Surface Hydraulic System Control.- Model-based Reconstruction of Distributed Phenomena using Discretized Representations of Partial Differential Equations.- GA-based Approach to Pitch Recognition of Musical Consonance.- Controlling The Lorenz System With Delay.- Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations for FPGA-based Digital Control Design.