This volume is the outcome of the first CASY workshop on "Advances in Control Theory and Applications" which was held at University of Bologna on May 22-26, 2006. It consists of selected contributions by some of the invited speakers and contains recent results in control.

The volume is intended for engineers, researchers, and students in control engineering.

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Modeling and Control of Autonomous Helicopters.- Efficient Quantization in the Average Consensus Problem.- Human-Robot Interaction Control Using Force and Vision.- A Dissipation Inequality for the Minimum Phase Property of Nonlinear Control Systems.- Input Disturbance Suppression for Port-Hamiltonian Systems: An Internal Model Approach.- A Systems Theory View of Petri Nets.- Wireless Sensing with Power Constraints.- The Important State Coordinates of a Nonlinear System.- On Decentralized and Distributed Control of Partially-Observed Discrete Event Systems.- A Unifying Approach to the Design of Nonlinear Output Regulators.- Controller Design Through Random Sampling: An Example.- Digital Control of High Performance Power Supplies for a Synchrotron Light Source.- Distributed PCHD-Systems, from the Lumped to the Distributed Parameter Case.- Observability and the Design of Fault Tolerant Estimation Using Structural Analysis.- Robust Hybrid Control Systems: An Overview of Some Recent Results.