  A systematic approach to design robust control protocols against the
influence of different types of noise is introduced. We present control schemes
which protect the decay of the populations avoiding dissipation in the
adiabatic and non-adiabatic regimes and minimize the effect of dephasing. The
effectiveness of the protocols is demonstrated in two different systems.
Firstly we present the case of population inversion of a two level system in
the presence of either one or two simultaneous noise sources. Secondly, we
present an example of the expansion of coherent and thermal states in harmonic
traps, subject to noise arising from monitoring and modulation of the control
respectively.
