This volume contains the proceedings of the 27th , 28th and 29th annual Colloquium of Automation. As every year, these were held in Salzhausen, Germany, in the first week of November. The Colloquia gathered over 140 German and international participants. A large number of international participants confirms that in its 29 year history the Colloquium of Automation has grown from the annual meeting of researchers at the University of Bremen and engineers from local industry to an international meeting of researchers and practitioners in automation and related fields.The 11 contributions presented in this volume are a selection from 51 papers accepted for presentation at the Colloquium. The coverage of the contributions is very wide, addressing research, new developments, and experience related to:o Control Theory o Robotics o Service Robotics o Brain Computer Interface o Virtual/Augmented Reality o Image Processing