HaiLong Pei received his B.S. degree in aviation fire control from Northwestern Polytechnical University, and his Ph.D. in automatic control from South China University of Technology, in 1986 and 1992, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the School of Automation, South China University of Technology. He is the director of the Key Laboratory of Autonomous Systems and Network Control, the Ministry of Education, and the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Research Center of Guangdong. He also receives a special State Council Allowance in China. His areas of research include Intelligent Unmanned System Design, Nonlinear Control, and Intelligent Robot Control. He has presided over several national and provincial scientific research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program and the Major Instrument Development Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.