Core Functionalities

• Carmen is a modular robot control software
• Carmen uses the inter-process communication plattform IPC
• Process monitoring
• Robot hardware support for different plattforms (see here)
• Hardware support for SICK laser range finder and GPS receiver
• Robot/sensor simulator (in 2d)
• Path planning module
• Localization module
• Scan-matching and mapping module
• Message logging and playback functionality
• Centralized parameter server
• Several useful functions when working/programming with robots
• Carmen is written in C, but provides Java support
• Carmen runs under Linux and is available under GPL