Asif Sabanovic is a Full Professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Between 1970 and 1991 he worked at the Energoinvest-Institute for Control and Computer Sciences, Sarajevo. His fields of interest include control systems, motion control, robotics, mechatronics and power electronics.Leonid M. Fridman has more than 20 years experience working in the field of variable structure systems in Universities both in Russia and Mexico. He is now a Professor of Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).Sarah Spurgeon is a Professor in the Control and Instrumentation Group at the University of Leicester, UK. Her fields of interest include the theory and application of sliding mode based control and estimation techniques.