Valerio Mariani received his Ph.D. degree in automatic control from the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy in 2014, and is an Associate Member of IEEE. He was a guest Ph.D. student with the Microgrid Research Program, Department of Energy Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He worked for many years in Industry, mainly automotive, and then became a Research Fellow at the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio. Currently, he is a Researcher at ENEA – Italian National Agency for Energies, New Technologies and Sustainable Economic Development. His research topics mainly include power system management, microgrid optimization, drones, path planning, control systems and model predictive control.