This book contains the proceedings of the 1st Latin American Congress on Automation and
Robotics held at Panama City Panama in February 2017. It gathers research work from
researchers scientists and engineers from academia and private industry and presents current
and exciting research applications and future challenges in Latin American. The scope of this
book covers a wide range of themes associated with advances in automation and robotics research
encountered in engineering and scientific research and practice. These topics are related to
control algorithms systems automation perception mobile robotics computer vision
educational robotics robotics modeling and simulation and robotics and mechanism design.
LACAR 2017 has been sponsored by SENACYT (Secretaria Nacional de Ciencia Tecnologia e
Inovacion of Panama).
