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Generally underpowered, underactuated, and large in size, airships express difficulties in adverse atmospheric conditions and situations requiring rapid or precise maneuvers. In this paper, a novel miniature unmanned airship with a sliding ballast is presented to address the limited altitude maneuverability. Simulated and experimental tests demonstrate that the proposed architecture allows for large...