CARMEN, the Carnegie Mellon Robot Navigation Toolkit, is an open-source collection of software for mobile robot control. It is designed as a modular software to provide basic navigation functionalities, which include: base and sensor control, logging, obstacle avoidance, localization, path planning, and mapping.

Supported Robots

• iRobot ATRV
• iRobot
• iRobot B21R
• ActivMedia Pioneer I
• ActivMedia Pioneer II
• Nomadic Technologies Scout
• Nomadic Technologies XR4000
• OrcBoard
• Segway

Supported sensors

• SICK LMS laser measurement system
• SICK PLS proximity laser scanner
• GPS device using the NMEA protocol: e.g. Garmin, Sirf, ... (most consumer GPS)
• Sonar (preliminary support)
• Hokuyo IR support (PB9)

See also

• Player Project
  Player Project
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• Microsoft Robotics Studio
  Microsoft Robotics Studio
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• Webots
  Webots
  Webots is a professional robot simulator widely used for educational purposes.The Webots project started in 1996, initially developed by Dr. Olivier Michel at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland....
  
  
• URBI
  URBI
  Urbi is an open source cross-platform software platform in C++ used to develop applications for robotics and complex systems. Urbi is based on the UObject distributed C++ component architecture. It also includes the urbiscript orchestration language which is a parallel and event-driven script...
  
  
• Turtle (robot)
  Turtle (robot)
  Turtles are a class of educational robots designed originally in the late 1940s and used in computer science and mechanical engineering training. These devices are traditionally built low to the ground with a roughly hemispheric shell and a power train capable of a very small turning radius...
  
  
• RoSta
  Rosta
  Rosta or Rustah was the name of a district in Isfahan area in Iran attested in historical sources. The Persian explorer Ibn Rustah was a native of Rosta....
  
   or RoSta external page
• Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit
  Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit
  The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit is a cross-platform and open source C++ library aimed to help robotics researchers to design and implement algorithms related to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping , computer vision and motion planning...