Integrated system delivers real-time platform oversight for medium and large uncrewed surface vessels.
ACUA Ocean has unveiled FleetMind ™, a proprietary integrated platform monitoring system designed to address a critical capability gap in the management of medium and large uncrewed surface vessels (USVs).
Whilst existing autonomy software solutions focus on command and control, navigation and collision avoidance, increasingly end users are consolidating the number of systems being deployed. This necessitates a modular approach to the C2 software integration layer, allowing focus to be spent on reducing the operating burden of vessel management and maintenance. ACUA’s proprietary FleetMind™ solution provides vessel operators with hardware / software interface needed to enable high-level software to control the vessel while also providing intelligent platform engineering.
While many existing USV designs are optimised as lightweight, mission-specific craft, the next generation of larger work-boat and ship-based autonomous platforms demands a different architectural approach. For these high-endurance assets, the complexity of the onboard engineering systems—propulsion, power management, and structural health, is as critical to mission success as the navigation and C2 software. FleetMind ™ addresses this by prioritising the “engineering stack” alongside traditional autonomy.
FleetMind™, delivers scalable modular data aggregation of vessel systems (NMEA, PLCs, Sensors, Networks, etc.) into data lakes, enabling unrivalled insights into vessel performance, maintenance and characteristics. This capability is being developed to include vessel simulation and virtual test environments.
First deployed onboard ACUA Ocean’s USV Pioneer in Q2 2025, FleetMind™ has since completed over 7,000 hours of on water operations, collecting over 25 billion datapoints, providing sub second insights to over 13K unique series during its first 6 months of at sea operations.
Vessel data optimisation enables real time “stateful tracking” that powers predictive maintenance and smarter automatic management; connecting vessel systems and performance data to the wider business requirements.
Insights gathered from FleetMind™ will increasingly enable future multi-vessel integration for a single view of fleet or swarm engineering management via the Remote Operations Centre. This user centric design approach reduces operator cost and complexity, whilst enhancing decision-making. FleetMind™ was developed in consultation with the Lloyd’s Register Human Factors team to ensure that as vessels scale in size and complexity, the interface remains intuitive, mitigating the cognitive load on shore-based operators and satisfying the stringent requirements of UK Workboat Code 3 regulations.
Commenting on the latest milestone, ACUA Ocean CEO Neil Tinmouth said, “Robotic systems are a prime example of software-enabled hardware. We’ve invested significant time and energy into building the most reliable and robust platform as evidenced by our world first MCA Workboat Code 3 regulatory approvals. Behind that exceptional product sits the intelligence enabled by FleetMind™, which fills a critical gap in the USV autonomy stack.”
