AeroVironment SkyTote
The SkyTote is an unmanned aerial vehicle, tail-sitter Vertical Take-Off and Landing -fixed wing hybrid plane, which attains the advantages of both airplane designs. In order to control the vehicle when transitioning between vertical take-off to forward flight, an adaptive neural network controller was designed by Guided Systems Technologies and used on the vehicle. The vehicle was developed by AeroVironment, under a contract given by the Air Force Research Laboratory, and its primary purpose is cargo-delivery.
The SkyTote is special as it features a fly-by-wire system with remote control.
As of August 2010, the SkyTote appears as a past product on the company websites, not as a current.
