Guangzhou University
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).