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The Twist you send on the "cmd_vel" topic is the desired motion you command your robot to perform. The Twist in the nav_msgs/Odometry message you get back is the measured/estimated motion that the robot performed. In an ideal world (with perfect controllers and sensing), these would be the same, but that world doesn´t exist ;)

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