ECER 2026.
that was ECER 2026.
ECER 2026 hosted a total of 47 teams from Austria, China and the United States in five different competitions.
ECER 2026 was made possible through the edu.WEITgoesECER+AI project, powered by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education.
the 2026 papers.
Highlighted papers were selected for presentation.
Hardware and Ambient Variability in Botball Robots: Analysis and Mitigation
Mario Scholze
Download paper paperSafety of multi-agent systems
Lara Reichenhauser
Download paper presented on stageIMU Calibration and Orientation Estimation on the Wombat Educational Robot
Tobias Madlberger, Matthias Greil
Download paper paperShape and Color Recognition Using a Logitech Camera and AI in Botball Robotics
Maxmilian Murrer, Selina Schösswender, Celina Wallner, Alexander Langreiter, Alexander Mayr, Philipp Mayr
Download paper paperReplacing Botball Kit Parts with 3D Prints
Alexander Gugumuck, Julian Nedal, Sebastian Lampl, Niklas Wagner, Raphael Wiedemann, Moritz Hortschitz
Download paper paperFallback Strategies for Handling Sensor Failure in Botball
Thomas Schweiger, Maja Schorf
Download paper presented on stageComparing Traditional Computer Vision to AI-based Computer Vision for Object Detection
Martin Lindner, Tünde Moger, Rüzgar Gündüz, Paul Langer, Florian Bayer, Philipp Barabas
Download paper paperExtending the Wombat Controller with an Arduino Microcontroller
Jovan Vujičić, Franziska Ebner
Download paper paperA Comprehensive Explanation of Rhoades BotBall Findings
Aden Makani, Ahran Thaper
Download paper paperAdapting Industrial Technology for Botball Robotics
Frederick Rohrhofer, Dennis Zöger, Bernd Vastag-Siklósy, Ben Van-Ysendyck, Onur Tonbul, Ramazan Aslan
Download paper paperCooperative Collision Avoidance in Multi-Agent Systems for Autonomous Educational Robotics
Maximilian Paesold
Download paper paperNavigation using Gyroscope and Accelerometer in Botball
Markus Weberndorfer
Download paper paperSignal Jamming Resilience Study
Moataz Hashem, Said Al-Madhoun, Mohammad Monsour
Download paper paperWhen 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
Download paper paperRaspberry Pi Robotics Extension Board
Christian Kargl, Peter Strommer, Christoph Hackl, Moritz Klein, Manuel Bichl
Download paper presented on stageMathGraph: A Domain-Specific Language and Visualization Environment for Graph-Based Planning on a Single Botball Robot
Tymofii Nosov
Download paper presented on stageImproving Robot Coordination Using a Shared Game State
Amir Elmesiry, Florian Kummerer, Christina Schönthaler, Vanja Drakulic
Download paper presented on stageSynthetic Data for Vision-Based Lane and Stripe Segmentation
Lukas Rennhofer, Matteo Prader
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