Return of the NUbots! The 2003 NUbots Team Report Jared Bunting, Stephan Chalup, Michaela Freeston, Will McMahan, Rick Middleton, Craig Murch, Michael Quinlan, Christopher Seysener, Graham Shanks 2 October 2003 Newcastle Robotics Laboratory The University of Newcastle NSW 2308, Australia http://www.robots.newcastle.edu.au ABSTRACT The NUbots repeated a strong performance in 2002 by again gaining 3 rd place in 2003. This report describes the architecture and components of the NUbot software system, focusing primarily on the new features for the 2003 architecture. These features include substantial improvements in all the main modules: vision processing; localisation and world modelling; locomotion; and behaviour. In addition, our team used run time alterable configuration files, and wireless TCP/IP facilities for testing, enhancement and debugging purposes. 1/48