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This teamreport is only a high level overview of the team and software architecture used for the Nao's during RoboCup. More detailed information for some topics can be found in the other sections.

The research group Berlin United - NaoTH is part of the research lab for Adaptive Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin headed by Prof. Verena Hafner. At the current state the core team consists of about 12 students of Bachelor, Master/Diploma, and PhD levels. Besides the direct participation at the RoboCup competitions NaoTH is involved in teaching at the university, public engagement and building of the RoboCup community.

NaoTH was founded at the end of 2007 at the AI research lab headed by Prof. Hans-Dieter Burkhard. As a direct successor of the Aibo Team Humboldt which was active in the Four Legged League of the RoboCup as a part of the GermanTeam until 2008. GermanTeam won the world championship three times during its existence.

NaoTH participated yearly at the RoboCup competitions since the first SPL competition in 2008 in Suzhou. The most recent achievements include 3rd place in the Outdoor Competition at the RoboCup world championship in 2016 and 2nd place in the Mixed Team Competition as part of the team DoBerMan at the RoboCup 2017. %For the full list of achievements please refer to the web page http://naoth.de.

In 2010 and 2011 we also competed in the 3D Simulation league with the same code as used for the SPL. In the 3D Simulation, we won the German Open and the AutCup competitions and achieved the 2nd place at the RoboCup World Championship 2010 in Singapore.

In 2011 we formed a conjoint team Berlin United with the team FUmanoids from Berlin, which participated in the KidSize League. The collaboration included extensive exchange of experience, sharing of code and organization of joint workshops. In 2017 the team FUmanoids ceased to exist. Since then NaoTH remains the only member of Berlin United and continues to compete under this name.

In 2017 and 2018 NaoTH competed together with the team NaoDevils as joint team DoBerMan at the RoboCup SPL Mixed Team Competition and achieved 2nd place in both years. In 2017 NaoTH won the 2nd place in the challenger shield and in 2018
reached the quarterfinals in the champions cup of the main competition.

In 2019 we won the SPL Technical Challenge and together with B-Human we won the Mixed Team Competition.