Background Information -- A Historical Perspective on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- Modeling and Control Fundamentals -- Airplane Basic Equations of Motion and Open-Loop Dynamics -- Control Fundamentals of Small / Miniature Helicopters - A Survey -- A Tutorial Approach to Small Unmanned Helicopter Controller Design for Non-aggressive Flights -- Design and Control of a Miniature Quadrotor -- Navigation Aspects -- Obstacle and Terrain Avoidance for Miniature Aerial Vehicles -- Vision Based Navigation and Target Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- Single and Multi-UAV Relative Position Estimation Based on Natural Landmarks -- Evolutionary Algorithm Based Path Planning for Multiple UAV Cooperation -- Applications -- Robust Nonlinear Observers for Attitude Estimation of Mini UAVs -- Autonomous Solar UAV for Sustainable Flights -- The Integration of a Multimodal MAV and Biomimetic Sensing for Autonomous Flights in Near-Earth Environments -- Dynamic Localization of Air-Ground Wireless Sensor Networks -- Decentralized Formation Tracking of Multi-Vehicle Systems with Consensus-Based Controllers -- "Hardware in the Loop" Tuning for a Volcanic Gas Sampling UAV -- A Modular On-board Processing System for Small Unmanned Vehicles -- Epilogue -- Conclusions and the Road Ahead.