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Even with empty laserscans, AMCL is still receiving odometry data from your robot, and therefore the particle filter will continue to update. The "jumps" are probably just that the particle cloud is spreading out. You can visualize the actual particle poses with RVIZ using the particlecloud topic, which should show exactly what is going on.

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