Maritime Autonomous Systems (MAS) Services 

Conducting MAS testing and MAS assurance in a suitable synthetic maritime environment is critical when assessing the ability of a system to appropriately observe the requirements of good seamanship. 

Drawing on our navigation and seamanship expertise — combined with human factors, information security, safety engineering, simulation, and training experience — we offer development, testing, training, and evaluation to support the certification of systems decision-making software for autonomous navigation. 

We test systems as we would a marine pilot or navigator, using a synthetic environment: Marine Autonomous Surface Ships Synthetic Environment Assurance System (MASS SEAS).

MASS SEAS permits an unparalleled comparison under real world-like conditions, where both the machine and human are subject to the same highly representative stimuli as well as dynamic response of the vessel to determined manoeuvres.

As the UK Naval Authority Recognised Organisation for MASS SEAS testing, we can develop a tailored syllabus of approved assessment serials based on the intended area and method of operation. 

This pragmatic approach enables MASS to gain an operating certificate more rapidly and simply – SEAS Reports can be passed to the Certifying authority as evidence in support of an authorised operating envelope for MASS Certification. 

From a MASS developers’ perspective, our specialist navigators’ analysis of performance provides access to deep subject matter expertise and an indication of where best to focus any development required to further open the MASS’s operating envelope.