“…In recent years, technological advances in computer systems and sensors has lead in the development and application of advanced control theories and robotics. These advances are presented jointly, since the nonlinear models of robots have served as a good study case in order to illustrate the general concepts of analysis and design of advanced control theories (Canudas de Wit, Siciliano, & Bastin, 1996), for example: adaptive control (Tso & Lin, 1996), sliding modes control (Zhao, Sheng, & Liu, 2014), Lyapunov based control (Halalchi, Bara, & Laroche, 2010), nonlinear predictive control (Wilson, Charest, & Dubay, 2016), fuzzy logic control (Chen, Wang, Zhai, & Gao, 2017), among others. The main reason lies in its ability to manipulate materials, parts, tools or specialized devices by programming their movements.…”