Zhejiang University UAV

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[[Zhejiang University]] UAVs are Chinese [[UAV]]s developed by Zhejiang University, sometime referred as Zheda. Zhejiang University is primarily involved in the research of aviation subsystems, and has since expanded into the arena of UAVs.

==Unmanned helicopter==
Zhejiang University had developed an unmanned helicopter named as Wing of Jade Spring (Yu-Quan Zhi Yi, 玉泉之翼), which made its public debut in November 2004 at Flying Leopard Cup competition, which is a competition among aerial robotics designs in China, and it won 3rd place.<ref>[http://www.news.zju.edu.cn/news.php?id=8889 Zhejiang University Wing of Jade Spring]</ref> Wing of Jade Spring UAV is in conventional helicopter layout with a pair of skids as landing gear, and the fuselage utilizes [[commercial off-the-shelf]] (COTS) system.

The unmanned helicopter is developed by the [http://cse.zju.edu.cn/chinese/redir.php?catalog_id=550 Institute of Industrial Process Control (工业控制研究所)] of the [http://cse.zju.edu.cn/english/ Department of Control Science and Engineering (浙江大学控制科学与工程学系)] of Zhejiang University. Unlike most Chinese UAVs, Wing of Jade Spring unmanned helicopter is not intended for mass production. Instead, it is an [[experimental aircraft|experimental UAV]] for limited production and primarily used as a platform for subsystems developed by Zhejiang University for UAV applications. These subsystems includes autonomous flight control system for rotary UAVs, GPS/GIS based navigational system, strap-down real-time operating system, target identification system, integrated sensor system, and real-time data transmission and processing system. Once these subsystems are successfully tested and proven on Wing of Jade Spring, they are marketed for applications on other Chinese UAVs.<ref>[http://it.sohu.com/20041025/n222669661.shtml Zhejiang University Wing of Jade Spring unmanned helicopter]</ref>

==See also==
[[List of unmanned aerial vehicles of the People's Republic of China]]

==Reference==
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[[Category:Unmanned aerial vehicles]]
[[Category:Unmanned aerial vehicles of China]]
[[Category:Unmanned helicopters]]
[[Category:Unmanned helicopters of China]]
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