MANAS
Maritime Autonomous Navigation Assistance System
AIVeNautics' integrated technology stack for advanced maritime situational awareness
Comprising a multi-sensor pack, edge computing, and AR-based visualization, MANAS provides navigators with a clear, digital understanding of the vessel’s surrounding environment to support safer and more informed navigation.
Designed for real-world maritime operations, MANAS seamlessly combines onboard perception with e-Navigation technologies, enabling reliable information sharing between ships and between ship and shore.
Enabling Safer Navigation Through Understanding
By integrating sensing, fusion, and AR visualization into a single coherent system, MANAS transforms complex maritime environments into clear and actionable insights.
It removes the root causes of collisions and groundings by ensuring operators always understand what surrounds their vessel, where risks exist, and why they matter.
A Complete Technology Stack
for Situational Awareness
MANAS is not a single product, but a comprehensive system architecture that integrates perception, fusion, and visualization technologies optimized for maritime environments.
1. Multi-Sensor Integrated Sensor Pack
MANAS incorporates a tightly integrated sensor pack combining camera, radar, and navigation sensors into a single system.
This configuration enables robust perception and precise navigation while reducing system complexity and reliance on high-cost sensor setups.
2. High-Precision Sensor Calibration
To ensure consistency and accuracy, MANAS applies geometric sensor calibration across camera, radar, and navigation sensors.
This precise alignment allows heterogeneous sensor data to be interpreted within a unified spatial and temporal reference frame, forming a reliable foundation for downstream perception and fusion.
3. Radar Attention-Based Sensor Fusion
MANAS employs a radar-driven, early-fusion approach that prioritizes radar detections as anchors for multi-sensor correlation.
This attention-based fusion enables early detection and accurate identification of distant maritime objects, even in challenging visibility and motion conditions.
4. AR-Based Navigation Support
On top of its perception and fusion layers, MANAS delivers an AI-powered AR navigation support system.
Surrounding risks are detected, enhanced, and visualized directly in the operator’s field of view, helping navigators quickly understand what matters most and respond with confidence.
Built for Autonomous and Human-Centric Navigation
MANAS leverages technologies originally developed for small-vessel autonomous navigation systems, adapting them to support human operators without requiring expensive hardware.
The system is designed to remain reliable on highly dynamic small vessels, where severe motion often degrades conventional perception performance.
Final navigation decisions remain with the operator, while MANAS continuously supports awareness, understanding, and safe action.