In the process of developing unmanned ships, Baltic Workboats AS, TalTech and Small Shipbuilding Competence Centre specialists and researchers create the technology to perform autonomous gear tests of ships in open water in full scale. The tests shall be preceded by the development of a software tool for pre-set vessel control and situational awareness, mobile data collection equipment, data analytics and test report. Autonomous gear tests are the first step in moving to more complex tasks.