Team Qualification Document for RoboCup 2020, Bordeaux, France

During the participation in the RoboCup, the Dutch Nao Team has provided its support or resources in a number of bachelor & master theses and projects that lead to publications on a large variety of topics. The Dutch Nao Team has published papers in the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, the RoboCup Symposium and the International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions. TOver the last years, our framework has grown quickly and has gotten to a point where most basic modules to play football properly are working. However, due to the necessity of those basic modules, some parts of the framework that could use improvement did not yet receive the attention they deserve. This year we worked on refining behaviours, improving load balancing between threadsand supporting different operating systems to allow an easier introduction into the team. More importantly, we worked on compiling in 64 bits and integrated camera settings in the framework, allowing us to do camera calibration. Furthermore, for the coming RoboCup the team plans to develop the following techniques: scanlines, ball detector, middle circle detection, localisation and debugging interface.