Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The AROS (Autonomous and Remotely Operated Ships) Platform Autonomy Controller is the next step in delivering not only leading vessel automation, but true autonomy.
The AROS Controller, recently awarded with an Approval in Principle (AiP) by DNV, supervises all critical vessel information and enables full autonomy when connected to MARINELINK-Prime and a compatible Navigational Autonomy System.
The AROS Controller is a safety control system that provides a standardised interface between the vessel’s complex engineering systems and the navigational autonomy system. Built to comply with international industrial standards, it ensures safe vessel operation across both crewed and uncrewed scenarios.
AROS Console
The AROS Console enables the remote operation and tasking of autonomous and uncrewed assets, including the ability to administer engineering functions.
The console provides three main stations:
- Remote piloting, with both touch input and physical controls. This is suitable for USV, ROV or even UAS.
- Asset tasking, mission planning, course plotting and target interactions.
- Remote engineering of multiple assets, allowing crews to remotely administer engineering functions, fulfilling both regulatory requirements and enabling critical functionality.
Designed to be fitted on new or existing vessels, the console facilitates crewed-uncrewed teaming, complimenting shore-based remote operations.
The AROS Console has been developed as a collaboration between Austal and Greenroom Robotics and reflects a key step towards delivering the necessary sovereign capability to support the introduction of autonomous and uncrewed assets directly to the war fighter.
Learn more at austal.com/ships/autonomous-ships
The AROS (Autonomous and Remotely Operated Ships) Platform Autonomy Controller is the next step in delivering not only leading vessel automation, but true autonomy.
The AROS Controller, recently awarded with an Approval in Principle (AiP) by DNV, supervises all critical vessel information and enables full autonomy when connected to MARINELINK-Prime and a compatible Navigational Autonomy System.
The AROS Controller is a safety control system that provides a standardised interface between the vessel’s complex engineering systems and the navigational autonomy system. Built to comply with international industrial standards, it ensures safe vessel operation across both crewed and uncrewed scenarios.
AROS Console
The AROS Console enables the remote operation and tasking of autonomous and uncrewed assets, including the ability to administer engineering functions.
The console provides three main stations:
- Remote piloting, with both touch input and physical controls. This is suitable for USV, ROV or even UAS.
- Asset tasking, mission planning, course plotting and target interactions.
- Remote engineering of multiple assets, allowing crews to remotely administer engineering functions, fulfilling both regulatory requirements and enabling critical functionality.
Designed to be fitted on new or existing vessels, the console facilitates crewed-uncrewed teaming, complimenting shore-based remote operations.
The AROS Console has been developed as a collaboration between Austal and Greenroom Robotics and reflects a key step towards delivering the necessary sovereign capability to support the introduction of autonomous and uncrewed assets directly to the war fighter.
Learn more at austal.com/ships/autonomous-ships
