Nowadays, the mechatronic systems, and more complex and sophisticated systems of mechatronic systems  (SoMS),  operate  in  close interaction  with  their  environments,  and  require  evermore advanced and extended control strategies. These become indispensable in order to cope with system uncertainties,  unpredictable  disturbances,  and  continuously-varying  external  conditions.  Motion control, as one of the key technologies in different-type mechatronic systems, should follow the changing paradigm of the plants and control specifications, and develop the new  methods and strategies to be applicable in praxis. The required control methods are expected to allow for more flexibility, reconfigurability, and robustness against uncertainties and fast disturbing factors coming from the environment and other interfacing systems.

Highly dynamic mechatronic systems, which are to be seen as having no, or only racy-varying, stationary state, are especially challenging for motion control, this due to the weakly known and non-accounted parts of the system dynamics. The purpose of this Special Session is to provide a research forum for generating, exchanging, and following up the ideas, recent trends, and results achieved in the fields of engineering which are closely related to highly dynamic mechatronic systems and motion control. Both theoretical and application driven studies are invited for participation. In particular, the Special Session will focus on, but is not limited to, the following topics of interest.