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ECER 2026

ECER 2026 hosted a total of 47 teams from Austria, China and the United States in five different competitions.

ECER 2026

April 13th – April 17th 2026, St. Pölten, Austria

ECER 2026 hosted teams from Austria, China and the United States in five different competitions, including Botball. The Aerial Challenge was organized in cooperation with robo4you.

ECER 2026 was made possible through the edu.WEITgoesECER+AI project, powered by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education.

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ECER 2026

Papers & Resources

Highlighted papers were selected for presentation

  • Hardware and Ambient Variability in Botball Robots: Analysis and Mitigation

    Mario Scholze

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  • Safety of mutli agents systems

    Lara Reichenhauser

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  • IMU Calibration and Orientation Estimation on the Wombat Educational Robot

    Tobias Madlberger, Matthias Greil

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  • Shape and Color Recognition Using a Logitech Camera and AI in Botball Robotics

    Maxmilian Murrer, Selina Schösswender, Celina Wallner, Alexander Langreiter, Alexander Mayr, Philipp Mayr

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  • Replacing Botball Kit Parts with 3D Prints

    Alexander Gugumuck, Julian Nedal, Sebastian Lampl, Niklas Wagner, Raphael Wiedemann, Moritz Hortschitz

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  • Fallback Strategies for Handling Sensor Failure in Botball

    Thomas Schweiger, Maja Schorf

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  • Comparing Traditional Computer Vision to AI-based Computer Vision for Object Detection

    Martin Lindner, Tünde Moger, Rüzgar Gündüz, Paul Langer, Florian Bayer, Philipp Barabas

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  • Extending the Wombat Controller with an Arduino Microcontroller

    Jovan Vujičić, Franziska Ebner

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  • A Comprehensive Explanation of Rhoades BotBall Findings

    Aden Makani, Ahran Thaper

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  • Adapting Industrial Technology for Botball Robotics

    Frederick Rohrhofer, Dennis Zöger, Bernd Vastag-Siklósy, Ben Van-Ysendyck, Onur Tonbul, Ramazan Aslan

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  • Cooperative Collision Avoidance in Multi-Agent Systems for Autonomous Educational Robotics

    Maximilian Paesold

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  • Navigation using Gyroscope and Accelerometer in Botball

    Markus Weberndorfer

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  • Signal Jamming Resilience Study

    Moataz Hashem, Said Al-Madhoun, Mohammad Monsour

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  • When Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Outperform Single-Agent Approaches? An Empirical Comparison Across Different Task Types

    Valentyn Hvozdenko, Heorhii Shoilytsia, Yehor Hliebov, Andrii Pavloskyi, Tobias Heindl, Artur Pimenov

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  • Raspberry Pi Robotics Extension Board

    Christian Kargl, Peter Strommer, Christoph Hackl, Moritz Klein, Manuel Bichl

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  • MathGraph: A Domain-Specific Language and Visualization Environment for Graph-Based Planning on a Single Botball Robot

    Tymofii Nosov

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  • Improving Robot Coordination Using a Shared Game State

    Amir Elmesiry, Florian Kummerer, Christina Schönthaler, Vanja Drakulic

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  • Synthetic Data for Vision-Based Lane and Stripe Segmentation

    Lukas Rennhofer, Matteo Prader

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