Name: An Open-Source PX4 Swarm With Onboard ESP32-P4 Vision - Mindaugas Jonauskis, Team Mach Mind
Start: 2026-10-08T17:00:00+0200
End: 2026-10-08T17:20:00+0200

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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An Open-Source PX4 Swarm With Onboard ESP32-P4 Vision - Mindaugas Jonauskis, Team Mach Mind

Thursday October 8, 2026 17:00 - 17:20 CEST

South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

I want to share our bumpy road on Swarm Drone Challenge 2026 (ILA Berlin) with a team of two people and what two stubborn guys can achieve during weekends - 4th place. We built a swarm of 5 drones, each running PX4 for flight, coordinated by a ROS2 ground station and onboard with two ESP32-ser. microcontrollers. ESP32-P4 was dedicated to onboard ArUco vision and ToF obstacle sensing (no Linux SBC) and an ESP32-S3 handling MAVLink and micro-ROS comms over WiFi.

I will cover architecture — PX4 + MAVLink + a ROS2 commander that assigns swarm roles and streams waypoints — and the onboard vision pipeline on bare microcontrollers. Comparison of Version 1.0 (single-MCU) vs Version 2.0 (dual-MCU) and why we shipped a deterministic Manhattan-grid navigation fallback when ArUco-EKF localization could not be deployed in time.

Our solution was open-sourced - https://github.com/machmind-dev/drone-swarm-challenge-2026

Speakers

Mindaugas Jonauskis

Co-Founder & Embedded Systems Engineer, Team Mach Mind

I'm co-founder of Mach Mind, a two-person team building autonomous drones in our spare time. At the 2026 Swarm Drone Challenge (ILA Berlin) we placed 4th with an open-source 5-drone PX4 swarm that runs onboard vision on bare ESP32 microcontrollers — no Linux SBC. By day I'm an embedded/systems... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 17:00 - 17:20 CEST
South Hall 1 B (Floor 1)

PX4 Dev Summit

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

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Mindaugas Jonauskis

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