Guangzhou University UAVs are Chinese UAVs developed by Guangzhou University for a variety of applications such as aerial photography, cinematography and survey missions.
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Trirotor
Guangzhou University Trirotor is a Chinese UAV developed by South China Institute of Software Engineering (广州大学华软软件学院) of Guangzhou University. What is unique about this UAV is that instead of being developed by some traditional UAV manufacturing firms or other research establishments in China, it is developed by a team of graduate students from a software engineering, and the design has achieved commercial success, with orders from various Chinese establishments, including People's Liberation Army (PLA), replacing some mission previously carried out by reconnaissance team with this UAV. The general designer of Guozhou University Trirotor is Mr. Zhu, Qiuyang (朱秋阳, 1987 –), whose undergraduate study was industrial design. When used by PLA for reconnaissance missions, the name give to the UAV by the Chinese military is Portable Triaxial Aerial Aeconnaissance Aircraft (Bian-Xie-Shi San-Zhou Hang-Kong Zhen-Cha Feng-Xing-Qi, 便携式三轴航空侦察飞行器).
Unmanned helicopter
Unmanned helicopter is another rotary wing UAV designed by Mr. Zhu, when he was still an undergraduate student of Guangzhou University, and its existence was revealed to the public for the very first time in October 2011 when the unmanned helicopter made its public debut at the 12th Challenger Cup competition in Dalian. The complete name of this unmanned helicopter is Aerial Reconnaissance Aircraft (Hang-Kong Zhen-Cha Fei-Xing-Qi). The airframe is the same as typical helicopter layout with a pair of skids as landing gear, but there is a beam mounted atop of the airframe, forming a cross shape. A pair of rotors are mounted at the ends of this beam respectively. This UAV is unique in that as of end of 2014, it is the only unmanned helicopter in China with transverse rotors.