This book gathers the proceedings of the 2nd Latin American Congress on Automation and Robotics, held at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia, on October 30
th
–November 1
st
, 2019. It presents papers from researchers, scientists, and engineers from academia and industry, and explores current exciting research applications and future challenges, mainly in Latin American countries.
The book covers a wide range of research fields associated with automation and robotics encountered in engineering, scientific research, and practice, including: autonomous systems, multi-robot and multi-agent systems, industrial automation and robotics, process control, modeling and optimization, control theory, artificial intelligence, kinematic and dynamic analysis of robotic systems, computer vision, self-localization, mapping and navigation, instruments, sensing and sensor fusion, evolutionary, bio-inspired, micro/nano, and soft robotics, novel robot designs,haptics, human–robot interaction and interfaces, simulation procedures, experimental validations, and educational robotics.