Essam Ali received the B.E. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical engineering from the faculty of Engineering in Assiut University, Egypt, in 2010 and 2015, respectively, and now he is a Ph.D. student at the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology from fall 2018. His specialist is solar-powered vehicles and robots at Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology E-JUST, Alexandria. His major research interests include PV systems, electric vehicles and battery management systems. His current research focuses on the design and control of mechatronic systems of solar-powered continuously operated vehicles and drones.