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