OSS + ELC EU 2026

While PX4 is open source, the underlying hardware often remains tied to proprietary vendor black boxes. This creates a gap for PX4 developers and sovereignty-sensitive applications that need an inspectable full stack all the way down to silicon.

This session presents CORE-ET, a fully open-source RISC-V platform that can scale from a 16-hardware-thread Erbium configuration to systems with more than 2000 cores. We will show a simulation demo of Erbium running PX4 alongside onboard AI: PX4/control runs on two hardware threads, while the remaining 14 run workloads such as vision, depth, VIO, or object detection.

We will discuss the porting structure, real-time capabilities, and measurements needed to show flight control running alongside local inference. The result is a path toward drones where both software and hardware are open and inspectable.