Guest editorial for special issue on autonomous control of unmanned aerial vehicles

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely employed in different applications, both military and civilian. Especially, a fast growing civil UAV market is predicted over the next decades. However, most currently developed UAVs depend on simple control strategy. They require exact modeling of the UAVs' dynamics and are vulnerable to external disturbance. Therefore, there is great need for advanced control strategies that are robust to modeling uncertainties and disturbances. This special issue focuses primarily on the problem of control design for UAVs with high robustness.