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M. Hua and F. From-ecole-polytechnique, He spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at I3S UNS-CNRS, France. He is currently researcher of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the ISIR laboratory of the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), France. His research interests include nonlinear control theory, estimation and teleoperation with applications to autonomous mobile robots such as UAVs and AUVs, Ph.D. from the University of Nice, 2009.

R. Mahony-received-the and B. Sc, degree in applied mathematics and geology and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Engineering, ANU. He worked as a Marine Seismic Geophysicist and an Industrial Research Scientist before completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship in France and a Logan Fellowship at Monash University He has held his post at ANU since, His research interests are in non-linear control theory with applications in robotics, geometric optimization techniques, and systems theory, 2001.