Austal System / Package
AROS Platform Controller and Console
Autonomy products launched in 2025: a DNV AiP-approved platform controller integrating mission autonomy, C2 and payloads, and a console for remote piloting and tasking.
Description
Launched in 2025, Austal's AROS products support autonomy across the maritime domain, providing assurance that remote assets are performing as required.
Key features
- AROS Platform Controller: awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) by DNV; integration point for mission autonomy, C2 and payload systems
- Standardised interface between engineering and navigational systems, developed to comply with international standards for safe operation in crewed and uncrewed scenarios
- Enables full autonomy on vessels fitted with MARINELINK-Prime and a compatible navigational autonomy system
- AROS Console: fits new or existing vessels for remote operation and tasking of autonomous and uncrewed assets, supporting crewed-uncrewed teaming (MUM-T); developed with Greenroom Robotics
- Three console stations: remote piloting of USVs, ROVs and UAVs; asset tasking, mission planning, course plotting and target interactions; remote engineering of multiple assets
Applications
- Uncrewed and optionally crewed vessels such as the Vantage class
Specifications
| Approval | DNV Approval in Principle (Platform Controller) |
|---|---|
| Launched | 2025 |
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