How to remote a lot of drones together?

[mike (mike kelly)]

Introduction to drone Swarming with Ardupilot

I am looking to simulate about 500 drones or even more, I know running these much of ardupilot SITL instances does not look feasible on same machine, my current system starting to getting laggy after starting 16 SITL instances and even after that on my system there doesn’t seem any platform which is capable of simulation of more than 16 drones properly, right now I am using MQTT to exchange messages across multiple python scripts each running their own SITL instances, but these messages starting…