What's New?

10/2008			New carmen release 0.7.4-beta has been released.
11/2007			New carmen release 0.7-beta fixes several small problems (including a bug on the laser-odometry-sync).
02/2007			New carmen release 0.6.5-beta fixes a problem with the old laser driver.
11/2006			New carmen release 0.6.4-beta with support for SICK S300 laser.
11/2006			New carmen release 0.6.2-beta.
11/2006			New laser server for carmen with support for Hokuyo URG scanner.
02/2006			Fixed a problem in navigator when dealing with dynamic obstacles.
02/2006			Improved gps support (nmea-gga and nmea-rmc).
02/2006			From now on, Carmen uses gtk2.
01/2006			New Carmen website at http://carmen.sourceforge.net.
12/2005			New odometry model for Carmen including a tool to estimate the model based on a recorded dataset
12/2005			The libraries libreadlog.a and libwritelog.a handle the log file parsing/writing. From now on, these libraries should be used by all other modules/programs!
12/2005			The log file format has changed. New messages are ROBOTLASER1 instead of FLASER, and ROBOTLASER2 instead of RLASER. Furthermore all RAWLASER messages are logged as well as GPS data.
12/2005			Mike integrated the process management control techniques used for Stanley during DARPA Gran Challange.
12/2005			multi-central support
12/2005			New ipc connect/disconnect/initialize functions
12/2005			Carmen integration meeting in Boston from 12.12.2005 - 18.12.2005
12/2005			The carmen.ini file has been polished. Now carmen has expert parameters.
12/2005			The carmen_robot_laser_message has changed. It now provides configuration data, remission values, and contains two structs laser_pose and robots_pose (instead of the individual variable fields)
11/2005			the function carmen_get_time_ms() has been replaced by carmen_get_time()
Summer 2005			Java support
Summer 2005			The internal ordering of the messages has changed. This was necessary for the Java support. Make sure, you do not mix modules compiled using different versions of Carmen!