Our research group, e-Controls, is installed at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), which is located in the north of Brazil, in the city of Manaus/Amazonas, a place with countless natural resources and welcoming people. In Manaus, we have a strong industrial park created as an economic alternative that allowed the preservation of 98\% of native vegetation. The e-Controls research group conducts cutting-edge research related to control, automation, artificial intelligence and energy systems in close collaboration with the Manaus Industrial Park and other institutions around the world. Our competencies are described in the following six main axis:

1. Control systems theory and applications including nonlinear, robust and optimal control, data- and learning-based methods, cyber-physical and network-controlled systems, and system identification;
2. Computational intelligence methods including machine learning, fuzzy systems and sets, and evolving systems with several control-related applications such as learning-based control, estimation and filtering, data analysis, and automatic detection and diagnostics;
3. Automation including digitalization and Industry 4.0 and all the related enabling technologies;
4. Safety and security including supervision of technical processes and cyber-physical systems, fault-tolerance, fault diagnosis and isolation, cybersecurity, formal verification of systems and software, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and prognostics and health management;
5. Future energy systems focused on low/zero carbon technologies and smart energy grids including renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, energy management systems, rural electrification, power converters, and communication and control issues in energy grids;
6. Mobile and industrial robotics including guidance, navigation and control problems, synergy with artificial intelligence and computer vision algorithms, autonomous task planning and execution, and collaborative robotics.