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The C-Cat 3 uses ASV’s standard control system consisting of a hand controller, a rugged PC for mission management and a Peli case each for the RF comms hardware and a network interface (Courtesy of ASV Global) ASV Global C-Cat 3 USV | Dossier something else, you might have a launch and recovery spot at the back, but you might also want a monitoring interface at the bridge or in the control room,” Daltry says. ASV’s larger vessels can be controlled at very long ranges, with the user interface hosted in the cloud and accessed, for example, by personnel in the UK, the USA and Singapore, enabling an operator to ‘chase the sun’ if necessary. ASV has built a control centre at its Portsmouth, England, headquarters from which it can control vessels anywhere in the world via the cloud. “This option would rarely be used for the C-Cat 3, because it is a mobile system,” Daltry says. “Typically it is just a laptop, but it is the same architecture right up to the big vessels over the horizon.” In the rear compartment of the gondola is its radio suite and a box containing the system that ASV refers to as the core. This is a small embedded computer based