The invention provides a tail sitter type unmanned aerial vehicle transition section robust control method based on a nonlinear disturbance observer. Firstly, an H-infinity controller is designed fora nominal model of a tail sitter type unmanned aerial vehicle at a transition section so as to achieve the expected trajectory tracking performance; and then, in order to inhibit the influence by uncertainty, nonlinear characteristics and external interference and to improve the robustness of the system, the nonlinear disturbance observer is designed. Compared with other control methods, accordingto the robust control method, the dynamic and static tracking performance of the tail sitter type unmanned aerial vehicle can be improved, and under the condition of large maneuvering and strong coupling, the influence by the uncertainty, non-linearity and the external interference can be inhibited by the disturbance observer, so that the expected performance is achieved.