Naira Hovakimyan is Professor and Schaller Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; Computational Management Science; and Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace, and she has authored over 200 refereed publications. Dr Hovakimyan was the 2004, 2005 and 2007 recipient of the Pride@Boeing award, and she received the Dean's Award for Research Excellence at Virginia Tech in 2008. Her current interests are in the theory of robust adaptive control and estimation with an emphasis on aerospace applications, control in the presence of limited information, networks of autonomous systems and game theory. Chengyu Cao is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr Cao's research interests are in the areas of dynamics and control, adaptive and intelligent systems, and mechatonics, with a focus on unmanned systems and aerospace applications. He is the author of more than 100 publications in journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings.