Blimp can seek, recognize, move toward and capture a green ball using color detection （the new blimp setup：with camera on the nose of the blimp) (demo)

• Modify and improve our current design (lightweight gondola, control board and camera at the new position)

• Test the algorithm on the new blimp configuration and adjust it accordingly

• Better capture basket (test different ways of attaching it on the blimp and find out the best way of integrating the camera)

There are some issues that we think we can improve on:

• We should build better battery slots for the camera and the control board
• The color detection algorithm now only works fine in our conference room, so we need to improve this algorithm (fine tune its parameters or machine learning algorithm)
• The mapping between control command and propulsion force from the previous to the current is a little bit hard and we need to use mesh network to input the parameters in order to make this whole process easier.

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