Automatic control research focuses on subjects pertaining to the theory and practice of automation science and technology subjects such as industrial automation, robotics, and human-machine interaction. With each passing year, these subjects become more relevant to researchers, policymakers, industrialists, and workers alike. The work of academic control researchers, however, is often distant from the perspectives of industry practitioners, creating the potential for insights to be lost on both sides. seeks to close this distance, providing an industrial perspective on the future of control research. It seeks to outline the possible and ongoing impacts of automatic control technologies across a range of industries, enabling readers to understand the connection between theory and practice. The result is a book that combines scholarly and practical understandings of industrial innovations and their possible role in building a sustainable world. readers will also find: This book is a must-own for both control researchers and control engineers, in both theoretical and applied contexts, as well as for graduate or continuing education courses on control theory and practice.Editorial board: Silvia Mastellone, University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland; Alex van Delft, vanDelft.it, DSM; Tariq Samad, University of Minnesota; Iven Mareels, Federation University Australia, IBM; Scott Bortoff, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs; Stefano Di Cairano, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs; Alisa Rupenyan, ETHZ.